I have kept quiet about this for far too long. I have worked in grassroots politics for decades — on local races, statewide races, presidential campaigns, and everything in between. I’ve watched hundreds of millions of dollars pour into elections, consultants come and go and campaigns rise and fall, while armies of conservative volunteers work themselves ragged trying to make up for what money and infrastructure should have provided.

After all these years, I have come to a fairly simple conclusion. Republicans don’t have a money problem. They have a ground-game problem, and they have spent years refusing to fix it, even after being offered the solution.

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I found the Democrat playbook. Republicans refuse to touch it

I know how to win elections. I found the entire Democratic Party Playbook on the Harris County, Texas, Democratic Party website in 2019, under the title “Texas 2020.” But for the grace of God and President Donald Trump, they would not achieve it. So, let me ask you, if you had the playbook of the winning team, wouldn’t you use it?

MARYLAND DEMOCRATS HAD A 7-1 ADVANTAGE. THAT STILL WASN’T ENOUGH

Whatever you think about Democratic policies (and I disagree with pretty much all of them), their organizing philosophy is brilliant. It isn’t about television commercials, glossy mailers, or political celebrities parachuting into town three weeks before Election Day. It is about relationships.

The strategy is methodical and extremely successful. Pick a target state. Identify the counties that determine those states and the neighborhoods that determine those counties. Then go into those communities and stay there. Not for three weeks. For years.

They open community centers and nonprofit 501c3 and 501c4 organizations that provide free services to the community and are tailored for each community. After two years, the organizations become a trusted source in the community. They start hiring people who have gone through their programs and have allegiance to their organization to be the mouthpieces of their messages. When elections roll around, and people open their doors, they see someone who looks like them, from their own community,........

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