
With a surge of unprecedented enthusiasm not seen since perhaps the early days of Barack Obama 2008 Presidential campaign, the Harris for President team has laid out its strategy to win the White House in November.
In a memo sent out early this morning (just in time for the morning news shows like Morning Joe) from Campaign Chairperson Jen O’Malley Dillon, the document first lays out the compelling message of the Harris Campaign:
“She (Harris) is fighting for a future that strengthens our Democracy, protects reproductive freedom, and ensures every person has the opportunity to not just get by, but to get ahead. Donald Trump is a convicted criminal running to enact his extreme and dangerous Project 2025 agenda that would roll back Americans’ rights and freedoms, hurt the middle class, and threaten our Democracy.”
Building on the historic Biden/Harris accomplishments and legacy as well as that campaign teams ground game infrastructure, Harris for President plans to intensify its outreach efforts in all seven battleground states (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.)
They feel that the Vice President’s polling and increased outreach with Latine, Black, Women, AANPI, and Young Voters will help propel higher turnout for her in these battleground states.
The campaign notes that of the seven percent of voters who consider themselves undecided:
“About seven percent of voters remain undecided in this race, and these voters are disproportionately Black, Latino, and under 30. They are more likely to have supported the Biden-Harris ticket in 2020 and are two times more likely to be Democrats than Republicans. These voters also disproportionately support Democratic candidates down-ballot and we have a clear issue and character advantage.”
Dillon also cited the prolific grassroots support that has burst out for Vice President Harris, including:
- “Raising over $81 million – the most in a 24-hour period in the history of presidential politics. As of Tuesday evening, Team Harris has raised $126 million since the endorsement.” With corporate and larger donor receipts, the figure is closer to $250 million.
- “Over 1.4 million grassroots donors made donations since Sunday afternoon, 64% of whom made their first contribution of the 2024 cycle.”
- “Since Sunday afternoon, Team Harris has added 74,000 new recurring donors, with two-thirds of these recurring donors signing up for weekly donations.”
- “Since Sunday afternoon, over 100,000 volunteers have signed up to join the campaign.”
- “In Nevada, volunteers literally showed up at field offices on Sunday asking to help and 2,500 Pennsylvanians signed up to volunteer, four times our previous biggest day.”
- “In Wisconsin, we held our biggest rally ever on Tuesday, with more than 3,500 fired-up supporters who organizers will now engage to volunteer with the campaign.”
- “Nearly 2,000 people applied to work on the campaign in the 24 hours after Vice President Harris announced her campaign – more than three times our previous record.”

With regard to the campaign’s infrastructure and planned ground game operations, Dillon wrote:
“From day one, the Biden-Harris campaign has not only been prepared to win a close election, it has been designed to win a close election. Vice President Harris will now inherit that robust campaign operation.”
“Since last fall, we have been building deep relationships in communities across the battlegrounds, creating a blended organizing model designed to register, persuade, mobilize, and turn out voters when it matters most. Using both in-person events and activities as well as engaging voters online, we are having conversations with voters to cut through media silos and political narratives. At the same time, we made early investments in a staff presence across the battlegrounds that has grown over time, with more than 250 coordinated offices in the states. We are presently at over 1,300 coordinated staff in battlegrounds, will be over 1,500 by the end of the month, and well over 2,000 before the summer is out. They are building an army of tens of thousands of volunteers who will talk to millions of voters. And all of this comes alongside an organizing program that will hit more than 3 million doors across the months of July and August.”
“We know, both from election results and from research, that when the choice is between Donald Trump’s extremism and the Biden-Harris Administration’s record of delivering for the American people – and when Democrats have an operation capable of persuading and mobilizing voters on the ground – we win.”
Bottom line: This campaign will be close, it will be hard fought, but Vice President Harris is in a position of strength – and she’s going to win.
Moving forward, in this writer’s opinion, there are three items the Vice President’s campaign must address:
- Immediately paint Trump and the MAGA Republicans as the true obstacles to border security, immigration reform, and funding/upholding law and order. Ads need to be produced and released yesterday. The truth and, more importantly, the video clips, are on the Democrat’s side.
- Pick a Vice Presidential nominee that can compliment Harris, reinforce the campaign message, and appeal to swing and undecided voters in the battleground states. Please click here to read an article I wrote on the Harris Veepstakes. Any one of those candidates or individuals in the same vein as those mentioned can fit the bill.
- Expand the map. With J.D. Vance already showing himself to be weak as the MAGA VP pick, the campaign, especially if their Vice President pick comes from the Midwest, should invest in Ohio and also Florida. Vance underperformed in the 2022 Senate elections there. The people in Florida, especially the women are not happy with that state’s new six-week abortion ban. Democrats need to exploit that and make the election a referendum on what MAGA is doing to women’s rights. Remember Bill Clinton and Barack Obama won both those states twice. Make them battleground states again.
- Do not agree to debate Trump unless the network panelists agree to do immediate fact-checking of the responses. Trump lied and lied and lied again and the CNN questioners did nothing to counter him. That would need to change before the next debate.
- Send every major Democratic All-Star to all the battleground states on a 24/7 schedule. That would include the Clintons, the Obamas, the Bidens, and every well-regarded Democratic Governor, Mayor, Senator, and Representative who can make the trips.
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