Progressive Turnout Project Celebrates Ralph Northam’s Victory in Virginia’s Gubernatorial Race

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 7, 2017

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Progressive Turnout Project Celebrates Ralph Northam’s Victory in Virginia’s Gubernatorial Race
Group spent more than $600,000 on field staff and media to turn out Democratic voters in most competitive House of Delegate districts

MANASSAS — Tonight Progressive Turnout Project (PTP) congratulates Democrat Ralph Northam and his team on a hard-fought victory in Virginia’s gubernatorial election. In total, PTP spent more than $600,000 to turn out Virginia Democrats in support of Northam and Democratic House of Delegate candidates across the commonwealth.

“Tonight Democrats won a key battle in the fight against Republican gerrymandering and voter suppression by electing progressive Democrats across the commonwealth,” said Executive Director Alex Morgan. “Here in Virginia we learned that on-the-ground field efforts will make the difference and we will take the lessons we’ve learned to competitive districts across the country in 2018.”

PTP launched a robust field program in June to target ten Republican-held Virginia House of Delegate districts in the Northern Virginia, Richmond, and Hampton Roads areas. The organization’s field representatives knocked on more than 200,000 doors and made over 200,000 phone calls to likely Democratic voters. Their efforts resulted in tens of thousands of commitments to vote across critical battleground districts.

As of 8:30 p.m. Virginia Democrats flipped 7 House of Delegate seats from red to blue. PTP was proud to support Jennifer Carroll Foy, Danica Roem, Elizabeth Guzman, Kathy Tran, Lee Carter, Carrie Delaney, Schuyler VanValkenberg, Debra Rodman Kelly Fowler, and Cheryl Turpin with significant field, digital, mail, and phone investments.

The Virginia election was the first statewide election since the 2016 presidential election and Democrats came out as clear winners going into 2018.

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Progressive Turnout Project is a grassroots Political Action Committee (PAC) with a single mission: get Democrats to the polls. PTP designs, tests, and executes specialized voter turnout programs targeting inconsistent Democratic voters in the most competitive districts in the country. In the 2016 cycle, the group raised more than $5 million from more than 93,000 donors and ran programs in 19 congressional races.