With less than 50 days until Election Day, progressive groups are investing millions into voter registration, education and mobilization efforts in battleground states amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Progressive Turnout Project, which is the largest grassroots-funded voter outreach organization in the country, has been focused on one-on-one conversations with inconsistent voters who typically vote for Democrats but don’t always make it to the polls.
The group currently has about 1,000 staffers. The plan was to initially knock 10 million doors in 17 presidential and congressional battleground states, but coronavirus shifted PTP’s tactics. Still, in May, the group announced plans to invest more than $52 million in its outreach efforts for the 2020 election cycle and that investment still stands despite shifting field operations.
Based on the number of calls made, PTP projects it will have more commitments to vote than the margins Mr. Trump beat Clinton by in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Florida in 2016.
