Democrats roll out $90 million super PAC aimed at swing states
Source: Politico
By MARC CAPUTO 05/31/2019 05:36 AM EDT
The nations largest super PAC devoted to grassroots Democratic turnout is launching its organizing efforts earlier than ever in seven swing states with a new campaign director and its largest budget to date: $80 million to $90 million.
For Our Future announced Friday that its hiring former President Barack Obamas onetime Florida campaign chair, Ashley Walker, to coordinate its swing-state operations with the goal of identifying and turning out Democratic-leaning 2020 voters, namely people of color and so-called sporadic voters who dont frequently cast ballots.
The committee, which was started in 2016 and historically has been funded by labor unions and billionaire climate change activist Tom Steyer, plans to build a network of 4,000 paid staff and an army of volunteers in Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin, states where it operated in 2018 and 2017.
Over the cycles, weve gotten smarter and better at what we do, Walker said. For Our Future builds state-based capacity to effect change at the electoral and community level. And we run our organization with the same standards as a presidential campaign.
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