Most of you will have read by now that former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale (the first digital director to run a major presidential campaign) was tackled by police and forcibly committed over the weekend after he threatened to kill himself...
Quick to capitalize on the New York Times’s revelation that Donald Trump has paid little or no income tax over recent years, the Biden/Harris campaign has launched its own Trump Tax Calculator. Enter the top-line number from your tax bill, and...
Hi folks, apologies for the sparse posting other than the top ten lists lately. This year I’m doing a ton of election-related work helping to elect Democrats, and it’s taken up most of my brain the last few weeks. Also, my apartment got...
In one of the more bizarre political inversions of the 2020 campaign, Republicans claim that their superior field organizing will make up for Donald Trump’s consistent lag in the polls. With Biden’s field organizers leery of face-to-face...
Billionaire and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg announced this weekend that he’ll invest at least $100,000,000 in the state of Florida to help elect his one-time presidential rival, Joe Biden, beat Donald Trump. Say that again: one...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg dropped a bomb on U.S. political advertisers today: no new ads related to candidates or issues will run on Facebook or Instagram in the week before Election Day this year. The decision comes as the company tries to deal...
Axios reports today (via PoliticalWire) that Trump 2020 will spend “in the high seven figures” on digital advertising this week tied to the Republican Convention. Ads will run on Facebook, Google properties and streaming services, and...
Turn on this week’s Democratic Convention and you’re going hear a lot about Joe Biden. You’ll also hear a lot about health care, the coronavirus, racial justice and guns. But behind the words and issues, I think the convention is...
Looking to pick up campaign skills fast? Check out the ongoing Digital Campaign Camp, organized by Brad Caldana and put on by The Digital Plan. Monday, I’ll be leading a session on integrating the disparate pieces of your digital campaign and...
This basic plan to use digital tools to help win an election comes from Chapter Six of How to Use the Internet to Change the World – and Win Elections [2020 Edition]. For details on any of the campaign activities described below, check out the...