Responding to criticism that they’ve ceded the field to Trump in battleground states while potential presidential nominees fight it out, Democratic groups went to Politico’s Maggie Severn this weekend to argue that they aren’t simply sitting on their hands: Democratic super PACs...
Read More »Beto’s in! And already begging for money (today’s email subject line: “We will be heavily outspent”). Of course, the man from El Paso raised close to $80 million in last year’s Texas Senate race, and we can expect that cash is one thing his campaign WON’T lack...
Read More »The digital side of Senator Kamala Harris’s campaign launch got good reviews this week, as Sam Stein and Gideon Resnick note at The Daily Beast: Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) announced on Tuesday that her presidential campaign exploratory committee brought in $1.5 million in the first 24 hours...
Read More »Via Politico, Republicans will finally build a central digital fundraising hub, something the Democrats have benefited from for fourteen years in the form of ActBlue: Following weeks of closed-door discussions, Republicans have agreed to create a new platform dubbed Patriot Pass, which will be...
Read More »Big news from one of the big spenders on the Independent Expenditure side of Democratic campaigning: Priorities USA Action, the top Democratic super PAC targeting President Donald Trump in 2020, is promoting its head of digital operations to a new role overseeing all paid media — something akin...
Read More »To get ready for 2018, the Democratic National Committee paid to find the cell numbers of every voter in America it could. Then, it passed them to the state parties as part of the master voter file candidates use for grassroots outreach and targeting. Political parties routinely add commercial...
Read More »
