Initiative aims to engage highly-targeted voters in key battleground states through a ‘neighbor-to-neighbor’ organizing model.
The Trump presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) have launched a grassroots voter outreach effort in battleground states, citing what they describe as a “rigged” trial in New York in which the former president was found guilty of felony offenses that Democrats have sought to capitalize on in their political messaging.
A jury found the former president guilty on May 30 in a case in which he was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to conceal non-disclosure payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels as part of a bid to influence the 2016 presidential election in which he was a candidate.
President Trump spoke to reporters outside the courtroom shortly after the jury delivered the guilty verdict, portraying his conviction as an attempt by his political foes to undermine his presidential comeback bid.
“Our whole country is being rigged right now,” the former president said. “This is done by the Biden administration in order to wound or hurt an opponent—a political opponent.”
The Biden-Harris campaign immediately began fundraising off President Trump’s conviction, telling supporters to donate as beating the former president at the ballot box is the only sure way to prevent him from re-taking the White House.
“Despite a jury finding Donald Trump guilty today, there is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: At the ballot box,” the Biden campaign said in a text message to supporters on Thursday.
“Convicted felon or not, Trump will be the Republican nominee for president. But there is one other certainty—as you read this, Donald Trump’s supporters are fired up and likely setting fundraising records for his campaign,” the Biden campaign said.
Indeed, backlash to the former president’s conviction was strong among supporters. Minutes after the jury returned the verdict, an avalanche of donations to the Trump presidential campaign caused the donation page to temporarily become unavailable. The following day, the Trump campaign announced a record one-day fundraising haul of nearly $35 million.
Seeking to build momentum, the Trump campaign and the RNC on Friday announced a new initiative dubbed “Trump Force 47” in the wake of what they said in a statement was a “rigged Biden trial.”
The initiative aims to engage highly-targeted voters in key battleground states through a “neighbor-to-neighbor” organizing model. This strategy builds on Trump’s successful early-state primary efforts and involves coordination with state and local Republican parties to ensure critical voter turnout for the November elections.
“Trump voters and Republicans are more motivated than ever to do their part to defend President Trump from Joe Biden and his band of corrupt liberals while supporting his mission to save our country from destruction,” Trump campaign advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles said in a joint statement.
“We will continue capitalizing on the unprecedented momentum of our shared movement to ensure President Trump returns to the White House alongside House and Senate majorities,” they added.
By Tom Ozimek
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