ICYMI: DSCC Chair Sen. Gary Peters Highlights Senate Democrats’ Winning Playbook in 2024 on Sirius XM

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SiriusXM POTUS Politics: The Laura Coates Show
January 11, 2024

• Sen. Peters: I feel good about where we are. We’ve got great candidates. The contrast between our candidates and the Republican candidates is going to be very significant. […] I think many of the same dynamics in place last cycle are with us again this cycle and I’m confident we’re going to be able to win.

• Laura Coates: Just this week, the DSCC announced an eight figure investment commitment to fund on the ground organizing staff in Montana and Ohio. This would be in addition to funding for Command Center offices in five states — Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, significant swing states as well — and also funding for on-the-ground staff focused on Republican accountability in nine states — those are Arizona, Montana, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida and Texas. This tells me that there is a pretty singular focus on trying to ensure that not only are field operations at their peak, but that they’re fully running in time for issues surrounding accountability. What is the focus in your mind?
  
  
• Sen. Peters: That’s why we’re making these very early investments, particularly now in Ohio and Montana. […] You can’t just build a ground operation in a matter of weeks. It takes months, requires getting on the ground, getting people, talking to folks face to face, cutting through all the clutter that we get during the campaign season that’s best accomplished with a very focused and targeted sophisticated ground operation. And we’re gonna do that, once again.
  
  
• Laura Coates: That ground operation has to include voting access and protection.
  
  
• Sen. Peters: [We have] to make sure that elections continue to be free and fair, which they have been. It also shows why it’s so important to have our absentee ballot program, which we’ve had attacks against by Republicans. We just won a case in Pennsylvania to make sure that people have access to absentee voting, which is the way people should be able to vote, in the safety and security of their home, taking their time to review the ballot to vote according to their wishes and to make sure that that vote is counted. So we are definitely focused on that, a big part of our ground operation and our legal operations, both attorneys and folks on the ground securing ballots.

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