Inside the Harris campaign’s outreach plan for Republican voters
The Harris campaign on Sunday laid out its plan for winning over Republicans in an effort to mobilize swing-state voters who cast ballots for former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley — but the effort is not without its hurdles, according to a source familiar with the campaign’s Republican outreach efforts.
The Harris campaign on Sunday laid out its plan for winning over Republicans in an effort to mobilize swing-state voters who cast ballots for former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley — but the effort is not without its hurdles, according to a source familiar with the campaign’s Republican outreach efforts.
The campaign is tapping state political directors to lead outreach to Republicans in their regions, the source told NBC News. However, the source said the campaign is having a difficult time locking in support from certain state leadership teams to head GOP outreach.
“That’s the dream of theirs, but I don’t actually think that’s going to happen on the level they want,” the person said.
The source has been nervous about getting Republicans behind Harris because of some of her policy positions during the 2020 Democratic primaries, such as her co-sponsorship of the Green New Deal and her support for mandatory gun buyback programs. But her shifting positions on some of those policy issues have reassured the person.
The campaign on Sunday announced a new push to appeal to GOP voters, which includes the creation of state advisory committees across battleground states that the campaign said will “play a pivotal role in facilitating Republican-to-Republican voter contact,” such as door knocking, phone banking and hosting events featuring Republicans. As part of Sunday’s announcement, the Harris campaign said it will unveil a digital campaign where Republican Harris supporters make “their case online to fellow Republicans.”
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