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By James Hohmann
July 20 at 9:45 AM
MANLIUS, N.Y. To save the Republican House majority, the Congressional Leadership Fund is focusing on a salmon hatchery in Seattle, a gas tax increase in Sacramento and an opioid epidemic in Syracuse.
The super PAC, which House GOP leaders have endorsed and raise money for, has field offices in 34 districts. With the help of polling and focus groups, strategists identified local issues in each one that they believe will motivate people who dont typically vote in midterm elections or persuade swing voters to support a Republican incumbent for reelection even if they disapprove of President Trump.
Thousands of young volunteers drive these customized messages by calling targeted voters from phone banks or knocking on their front doors. The group says these high school and college-aged kids have already made 15 million voter contacts over the past year. The same themes will be echoed again and again during the next three months in mailers, television commercials, radio spots and digital ads.
-- At a field office in this suburb of Syracuse, seven interns telephoned targeted voters last Thursday afternoon to tell them about everything their local GOP congressman, John Katko, has been doing down in D.C. to crack down on the synthetic drugs that have ravaged their community.
Jessica Field, a rising senior at Duquesne University, is volunteering here over the summer in between shifts as a cashier at the Marshalls down the road. Are you aware of the work Congressman Katko has been doing to make central New York safer? the 21-year-old asked everyone who picked up. One of his big pushes is to help families by fighting the opioid crisis.
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beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)trump tariff taxes and the overall corruption of republicans. Of course GOP wants to make "local". As a democratic strategy the local democratic candidate should be well versed what the gOP policies in washington are doing to the local voter and economy. The last thing an Iowa GOP congess person want to talk about are trump tariffs costing farmers and locals real money