who then go around the block and toss most of them in a dumpster.

Killing off your voters is poor strategy.

“At first I was nervous, but our response rates on phone calls and texts are much higher and people are not necessarily wanting someone to go up to their door right now,” said Jenn Ridder, Biden’s national states director. “You get to throw a lot of the rule book out the window and try out new things.”

Hard for me to imagine that country wide there aren’t local DNC party members going out to canvass votes.

here in Ohio our numbers are rising...no GOP types out there either. I doubt any would answer doors...we will put literature on the doors with info about voting and who the party recommends etc. We are phone banking and more are answering their phones than usual also. We are calling to remind folks to ask for ballots...and that they can be dropped off etc. Also Early voting will start in October.

Unlike the article that makes it sound like they are organized busy little bees, and we are lazy slackers. I get multiple calls, texts and emails daily, and I’ll bet in Harry Potter land there are owls sent in by way is chimney. I don’t like the inference that we are doing nothing to boot out these psycho losers.

Also, GOP types are not out in Ohio so ...I would highly doubt the Trump campaign is telling the truth.

It's pretty obvious Trump doesn't mind killing off his own MAGAts

who was calling to see if I was voting for Joe Biden (of course I am). We chatted for awhile, and she said she had gotten some responses that people would NOT vote for Biden. I told her if she was calling my part of Virginia, that'd be normal, but that Virginia as a whole has a Democratic Governor, two Democratic Senators, and Democratic State Senate and House of Delegates.

So, there is work being done - it's just thankfully not someone showing up at my door.

Or are you simply accepting what they said...
as fact.
as something that was validated by an outside, credible source?

Buy any New York City bridges lately?

Republicans who discount the risks of COVID and refuse to social distance making door visits to promote Trump?

Like its master, the Trump campaign lies. In particular, it exaggerates its deeds. One million is a nice round figure, a con-man's promise, the sort of thing a boaster says. There is no reason to take it as a genuine count of doorstep encounters with human beings. Doubtless there are some. Doubtless their canvasers are spreading viral poison among those who answer their doors and chat. As this takes its inevitable course, 'Trump campaign spreads plague' will become a subject for conversation....

...to an audience (POLITICO readers) that doesn't consist of voters, but of political professionals and politics junkies who aren't swayed by press releases.

The point of the article isn't that Trump is outplaying Biden, it's that the two campaigns have decided on drastically different strategies.

That belief is congenital. They want to look bigger, look better, look smarter. Actually being any of these things is beside the point. They believe them to be established truth if enough other people agree they are and believe.

Have you been asleep for 4 years? They lie a lot.

How many people the Trump campaign has actually canvassed has no impact on voter perceptions of him.

Only someone hopelessly naive or insufferably dense would have it any other way.

During Covid? Open the door to Trumpers who don't believe in masking?

lol...

They have the same lists that we do, identifying registered Republicans and potentially supportive Independents

Or have neighbours who are. It seems if the Trump campaign was knocking on a million doors, someone would notice.

Abbie’s district with a female suburban voter in the house. Unless they are leaving Freitas out to dry I’d expect the fire breathers out here.

Everyone was all over us in the state races.

Does Politico even know what reporting is or are they just interested in stenography that pushes their "Dems suck" narrative.

In FL, we are doing phone banking instead of canvassing. A group of Democrats in my county make 500 or more calls every week encouraging VBM and supporting Joe.

Look at the # of Democrats in FL who have signed up for VBM - it is well past Republicans' tally. Why do you think Trump made his idiot claim yesterday that VBM in FL is peachy keen?