MAGA influencers are making a final push for Donald Trump

Pro-Trump influencers and surrogates are flooding social media with resources encouraging supporters to vote in the final days of the 2024 presidential election.

“Patriots, I’m partnering with the Trump campaign for a last-ditch electoral push and we need your help,” David Leatherwood, a Republican influencer whose username is BrokebackPatriot, wrote to X on Sunday. “The portal helps ensure your voter registration is active to ensure you have (sic) VOTE!”

“TEAM TRUMP NEEDS YOU,” Morgonn Blaire McMichael, an influencer and Turning Point USA contributor, wrote to X on Sunday. “That’s how we win! CAST YOUR VOTE!”

Dozens of these creators and followers posts links to a Trump campaign website where voters can check their registration status, find their polling places or where they can drop off their ballots.

Republican creators plan to be across the country supporting Trump’s campaign Tuesday night.

CJ Pearson, a conservative creator with more than half a million followers X, said he will be in Palm Beach, Florida, home of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, on election night. McMichael will attend a New York Young Republicans party where she expects to see other conservative creators. Some pro-Trump creators told WIRED that they plan to host live streams of the election results on their platforms or join other streams hosted by their friends. The Peter Thiel-backed conservative dating app, Right Stuff, is holding an election night party in New York City on Tuesday.

Groups of pro-Trump influencers have rallied throughout the campaign. During the vice presidential debate in October between JD Vance and Tim Walz, the Trump campaign set up a war room for influencers, amplifying Vance’s jabs and positive coverage. Popular social media personalities including Pearson, Jack Posobiec, Ashley St. Clair and Rogan O’Handley sat in a conference room in Philadelphia with their phones and computers posting debate-related content.

Even with these well-organized influencers, the Trump campaign’s get-out-the-vote efforts have been thrown into chaos, with Turning Point USA and the Elon Musk-backed America PAC taking over efforts to canvass hotly contested battleground states. Last week, WIRED reported that out-of-state canvassers and door-knockers hired by an America PAC contractor were subjected to shocking working conditions, like being driven around in the back of a U-Haul and threatened to pay for lodging if they did. not meeting quotas. A dozen of these paid canvassers were fired and stranded in Michigan after speaking out.

America PAC has not disclosed the extent of its search operations, but This is what the New York Times writes on Sunday that averaged about 1 million doors in each battleground state, including Arizona, Georgia and Michigan. There are reportedly around 2,500 canvassers in total who are asked to knock on 150 doors a day.

Musk’s field operations, meanwhile, appear to pale in comparison to the Kamala Harris campaign’s land operations. On Saturday alone, the Harris campaign says it knocked on more than 807,000 doors in Pennsylvania, 215,000 in Wisconsin and 265,000 in Michigan. By Sunday night, the Harris campaign said more than 90,000 volunteers knocked on more than 3 million doors in battleground states. Pro-Harris influencers and supporters are expected to gather at Howard University in Washington, DC, for the campaign’s launch party.

Terrace Garnier, a content creator and model who was recently diagnosed with heart failure, traveled from her home in Maryland to Pennsylvania on Sunday to get the vote for Harris.

“This was my call. This was my mission. This is my vocation,” says Garnier. “That’s why I felt it was so important to drive six, almost seven hours to canvas in a neighborhood that doesn’t even belong to me, because it’s so important to me that we can’t let this election slide. We can’t show any slack.”

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