Democrats press ground game advantage with huge investment in swing states

The Democratic National Committee counterprogrammed Day 1 of the Republican National Convention with an announcement of its own.

Democrats are investing $15 million in swing-state Democratic parties to set up field offices and apply more pressure to a Republican Party that has gone light on ensuring there is a ground presence to stir up voters.

The investments will help open Democratic Party field offices in notable urban and rural areas in seven key battleground states. In the breakdown, Arizona will receive $1.5 million, Georgia will receive $1 million, Michigan will receive nearly $2 million, North Carolina will receive $1.2 million, Nevada will receive more than $2 million, Pennsylvania will receive $2 million, and Wisconsin will receive nearly $3 million, according to ABC News.

DNC investments have allowed for the Democrats to open 217 field offices and hire 1,100 staffers across multiple swing states.

The largest investment goes to Wisconsin, a state former President Donald Trump won in 2016 but President Joe Biden flipped blue again by a little more than 10,000 votes in 2020. It’s also the site of the Republican National Convention, which is taking place in Milwaukee this week.

“As MAGA Republicans descend on Milwaukee to nominate a serial liar, cheater, and convicted felon in Donald Trump, Democrats are leaving nothing to chance and investing heavily on the ground to ensure Joe Biden and Kamala Harris win this election,” DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison said in a statement provided to ABC News before Saturday’s assassination attempt on Trump.

“This is the largest-ever investment made to battleground state parties at this point in time, and we continue to build our state-by-state war chests in preparation to re-elect President Biden and Vice President Harris in November,” he added.

The Republican National Committee did not disclose to ABC News exact details of its ground operations or any investments into swing states, but Anna Kelly, a spokeswoman for the RNC, said, “Joe Biden’s campaign is desperate to talk about anything but their cognitively impaired candidate or the disastrous poll numbers that have them losing in every battleground state, as well as so-called ‘blue states’ across the country.”

In 2020, Biden won all of the states the DNC invested in except North Carolina. Biden is still fending off calls from more than a dozen congressional Democrats for him to step down as the presidential nominee following his lackluster debate performance.

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“This election was always going to be close, and regardless of beltway media narratives, the entire election is going to come down to operation and turnout in the battleground states,” Harrison said.

“The Democrats’ operation is second to none and stronger than ever,” he added. “As MAGA Republicans hype up Donald Trump this week, it’s important to remember that Democrats are lightyears ahead of the RNC on the ground, where it actually matters. We’re going to win this election by engaging voters community-by-community, block-by-block, door-by-door.”