Pro-Trump influencers and Surrogates are flooding social media with resources encouraging their supporters to vote in the final days of the 2024 presidential election.
“Patriots, I’m partnering with the Trump campaign for a final election push and we need your help,” David Leatherwood, a Republican influencer whose username is BrokebackPatriot, posted on X on Sunday. “The portal helps ensure your voter registration is active to make sure (sic) VOTING COUNTS!”
“TEAM TRUMP NEEDS YOU,” Morgonn Blaire McMichael, influencer and Turning Point USA contributor, posted on X on Sunday. “This way WE WILL WIN! COMMIT YOUR VOTE!”
Dozens of these creators and followers They are posting links to a Trump campaign site where voters can check their registration status, find their polling locations or where to drop off their ballots.
Republican creators plan to be across the country supporting Trump’s campaign on Tuesday night.
CJ Pearson, a conservative creator with more than half a million X followers, said he will be in Palm Beach, Florida, home of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, for election night. McMichael will join the New York Young Republicans party, where he hopes to see other conservative creators. Some pro-Trump creators told WIRED they plan to livestream the election results on their platforms or join other streams hosted by their friends. The Peter Thiel-backed conservative dating app Right Stuff will host an election night party in New York City on Tuesday.
Groups of pro-Trump influencers have been meeting throughout the campaign. During the October vice presidential debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz, the Trump campaign set up an influence war room, amplifying attacks and positive coverage of Vance. Popular social media personalities including Pearson, Jack Posobiec, Ashley St. Clair and Rogan O’Handley sat down in a Philadelphia conference room with their phones and computers posting content related to the debate.
Even with these well-organized influencers, the Trump campaign’s get-out-the-vote effort has been plunged into chaos, with Turning Point USA and the Elon Musk-backed America PAC taking on canvassing efforts in battleground states. Last week, WIRED reported that out-of-state canvassers and door knockers hired by an America PAC contractor were subjected to shocking working conditions, including being driven around in the back of a U-Haul and threatened with paying for lodging if they no Does not meet polling quotas. A dozen of these paid pollsters were fired and abandoned in Michigan after speaking out.
America PAC has not disclosed the scale of its canvassing operations, but The New York Times reported on Sunday which averaged about 1 million doors in each battleground state, including Arizona, Georgia and Michigan. There are reportedly around 2,500 enumerators in total who are asked to visit 150 doors a day.
Meanwhile, Musk’s field operations appear to pale in comparison to the ground operations of Kamala Harris’ campaign. On Saturday alone, Harris’ campaign says it knocked on more than 807,000 doors in Pennsylvania, 215,000 in Wisconsin and 265,000 in Michigan. On Sunday night, Harris’ campaign said more than 90,000 volunteers knocked on more than 3 million doors in battleground states. Influencers and Harris supporters are expected to gather at Howard University in Washington, D.C., for the campaign watch party.
Terrace Garnier, a content creator and model who was recently diagnosed with heart failure, traveled from her home in Maryland to Pennsylvania on Sunday to get out the vote for Harris.
“This was my call. This was my mission. “This is my calling,” says Garnier. “That’s why I felt it was so important to drive six, almost seven hours to get to a neighborhood that doesn’t even belong to me, because that’s how important it is to me that we can’t let these elections pass. We cannot be lazy.”
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