“Musk-Funded GOTV Efforts Are Struggling”
“The Trump campaign has outsourced its get-out-the-vote (GOTV) operation to third parties.”
“This is what the Trump campaign has done, although the "not coordinate" part is doubtful since Donald Trump talks to Musk, one of his outsourcers multiple times a week. While Musk does know a lot about making electric cars and firing rockets into space he doesn't know much about running a GOTV operation”
“Musk has hired contractors to do the work and shelled out $75 million to them so far. They hire hourly workers at $20/hr to knock on doors. Then the contractor has to find and train new workers, which is not easy to do because no one is about to give up an actual job for a 3-week stint canvassing, and unemployment is low. Also, it is not clear that the contractors actually care whether the workers do anything, since the contractors get paid no matter what”
“Musk's PAC, America PAC, has goals about how many doors its canvassers are supposed to knock on. For example, in Wisconsin, it is 450,000. It is falling far short of that there. The contractors hired by America PAC are having trouble finding people to hire, the ones who are hired often quit quickly, and again, some of them may be lying about how many people they have contacted.”
“In addition to using Musk for his GOTV operation, Trump also used Turning Point Action (TPA), which was going to handle Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona. TPA has already given up on the first three and is now focused only on Arizona. It has some experience there. In 2022, it worked for Kari Lake and Blake Masters. Both were crushed”
“Kamala Harris doesn't have so many problems because the campaign itself is running the GOTV operation and it has hundreds of thousands of volunteers who are doing the work because they believe in her, not because they can make a couple of bucks an hour more than they could at McDonald's”
Just goes to prove once again just because you succeed in one field doesn’t mean you are any good in another, Trump himself is an example of that, although I don’t know if bankrupting casinos or convicted of fraud actually equates to success
Little to fear regarding Musk’s aid
“The Trump campaign has outsourced its get-out-the-vote (GOTV) operation to third parties.”
“This is what the Trump campaign has done, although the "not coordinate" part is doubtful since Donald Trump talks to Musk, one of his outsourcers multiple times a week. While Musk does know a lot about making electric cars and firing rockets into space he doesn't know much about running a GOTV operation”
“Musk has hired contractors to do the work and shelled out $75 million to them so far. They hire hourly workers at $20/hr to knock on doors. Then the contractor has to find and train new workers, which is not easy to do because no one is about to give up an actual job for a 3-week stint canvassing, and unemployment is low. Also, it is not clear that the contractors actually care whether the workers do anything, since the contractors get paid no matter what”
“Musk's PAC, America PAC, has goals about how many doors its canvassers are supposed to knock on. For example, in Wisconsin, it is 450,000. It is falling far short of that there. The contractors hired by America PAC are having trouble finding people to hire, the ones who are hired often quit quickly, and again, some of them may be lying about how many people they have contacted.”
“In addition to using Musk for his GOTV operation, Trump also used Turning Point Action (TPA), which was going to handle Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona. TPA has already given up on the first three and is now focused only on Arizona. It has some experience there. In 2022, it worked for Kari Lake and Blake Masters. Both were crushed”
“Kamala Harris doesn't have so many problems because the campaign itself is running the GOTV operation and it has hundreds of thousands of volunteers who are doing the work because they believe in her, not because they can make a couple of bucks an hour more than they could at McDonald's”
Just goes to prove once again just because you succeed in one field doesn’t mean you are any good in another, Trump himself is an example of that, although I don’t know if bankrupting casinos or convicted of fraud actually equates to success
Little to fear regarding Musk’s aid
