Swing Left's Super State Strategy for 2020
Our mission:
Win all the Houses in 2020, including the White House, the Senate, the House, and the State Houses key to rolling back Republican gerrymandering.
How we'll do it:
By engaging voters and fundraising for campaigns in the Super States, where the key fights of 2020 will be won or lost.
In 2018, we took back the House. And in 2020, we have the opportunity to do something even bigger.
Working together, we can take back not only the White House—but also the Senate and the State Houses needed to control the drawing of fair maps in the 2021 redistricting, undoing some of the worst cases of Republican gerrymandering.
If we do things right, we’ll not only beat Trump and the GOP. We’ll also set up our country for a decade of progressive wins.
OUR OPPORTUNITY: THE "SUPER STATES"
Last cycle, Swing Left pointed you towards your closest Swing District as the most effective place to focus your volunteer time and donations. And everybody is familiar with Swing States. But the 2020 cycle is giving us something new and exciting: what we’re calling the “Super States.”
If you overlay the target maps, the most important battles to win the White House, the Senate, and the once-in-a-decade fight to control redistricting are concentrated in the same few states.
By focusing on them, we can maximize the impact of our efforts, working on many or all of these important contests at the same time.
HOW WE'LL WIN
Winning the Super States is how we’ll win the country. Some of us live in or near a Super State; many of us don’t. How can we all make an impact?
By focusing our efforts on two tactics we know win elections: raising early money for candidates and engaging new voters. And both can be done from wherever you live.
Engaging new voters
Registering people to vote will be one of the most important things we can do to win the Super States. This is different from the 2018 midterms, when we focused primarily on turnout. Here’s why:
Starting now, you can register voters in person or from anywhere by mail, via a new letter-writing program. Registering voters by mail is very effective. So, we’re piloting an innovative tactic that uses volunteer power to send personal letters—lots of letters—to potential new voters in Super States across the country. You can make an impact in places like North Carolina, even if you live all the way in California.
Raising early money for candidates
Early money can make a huge difference in winning elections. After candidates win the primary, they need immediate funds to hire staff and buy ads as they pivot to confront their Republican opponent. It’s how we made sure our nominees in 2018 started the general election strong.
And it’s why we’re starting raising money for our Super State nominees now—so we can deliver them a Big Blue Check early on, at the moment of absolute highest impact.
States:
Arizona
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Maine
Michigan
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Texas
Wisconsin
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