Beto O'Rourke aims to make 15 million calls to Texas voters, more than half of state's population, t
Beto O’Rourke’s organization, Powered by People, seeks to deliver dozens of decisive Democratic victories at every level of the ballot by making a stunning 15 million calls to Texas voters by the November election — more than half of the state’s population of 29 million.
The goal, set during a recent press conference, would nearly rival the 20 million calls O’Rourke made during his campaign for U.S. Senate in 2018. That year, the organizing infrastructure that his campaign and volunteers built led to numerous victories across the state, including flipping 12 Texas House seats, two Texas Senate seats, two Congressional seats, and dozens of judicial seats that changed the composition of four major appeals courts.
Launched in December 2019, Powered by People has successfully harnessed much of the energy O’Rourke generated in 2018 to direct thousands of volunteers to call likely Democratic voters en masse. After helping fill more than 14,000 volunteer shift hours at overwhelmed food banks in the wake COVID-19 spikes, Powered by People launched an aggressive voter registration and identification effort to reach likely Democrats.
Making calls to voters, in absence of in-person conversations, is one of the most effective ways of persuading them to vote. As Powered by People connects with voters over the phone, they share the result of the conversations they have — whether the person called has now registered to vote, and if the voter plans to vote Democratic or not — with the Texas Democratic Party and all Democratic candidates running in the state. Because candidates are unable to engage voters in person due to COVID-19 health concerns, the work Powered by People is doing now may aid campaigns in more quickly mobilizing already identified Democratic voters to the polls. This is critical work, especially given the more than half a million new registered voters — mostly Black and Brown — in Texas since November 2018.
Powered by People’s weekly virtual phone banks regularly make more than 300,000 outbound calls to likely Democrats and have garnered over 800 volunteers at a single event. Anchored as an organizing powerhouse, Powered by People has made more than 1.3 million calls to unregistered likely Democratic voters in the past two months.
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