Turning Point Action, the Sentinel Action Fund, the Republican State Leadership Committee PAC, and the Keystone Renewal PAC have begun a multi-million dollar campaign encouraging Republicans to avail themselves of early voting and voting by mail.
Turning Point Action has raised around $100 million to implement its Chase the Vote program, which aims to beat the Democrats at their own game and maximize turnout. “It’s better to participate [in early voting] than not participate at all. That’s our argument,” explained Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
“The threading the needle for us, the game that we have to play, that we have to figure out: How do we get a bunch of people who are deeply concerned about these processes… to participate in those same processes?” added Tyler Bowyer, Turning Point Action’s chief operating officer.
Republicans have historically been reluctant to embrace early voting methods on grounds they encourage election fraud. In 2024, however, conservative organizers are working to use the system so long as it cannot be changed. Early efforts to turn out more low-propensity voters using the same methods as the Democrats appear to be yielding results: “It’s going very well. We are starting to see the early fruits of our labor,” said Sentinel Action Fund president Jessica Anderson, whose organization is working alongside the Republican State Leadership Committee PAC and the Keystone Renewal PAC.
Anderson’s group has pledged a “year-round ground game committed to turning out absentee, early vote, and ‘day of’ voters.”
Together, the three groups have sent out several rounds of mailers and aired digital ads in Pennsylvania, targeting about 1.2 million eligible voters who rarely participate in elections.
PLAYING CHESS.
Concurring with Anderson, Republican State Leadership Committee PAC president Dee Duncan said that “strategic investment into Pennsylvania is showing a lot of promise, and we’re excited to roll up our sleeves and do the hard work necessary between now and November to ensure that we elect Republicans up-and-down the ballot in the Commonwealth.”
Lara Trump, now co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), has said the GOP will utilize “legal ballot harvesting” and other turnout strategies where the Democrats have long held an advantage.
“We’ve been playing checkers, and the Democrats have been playing chess,” she explained.
