Press Update: This Week in Michigan Voter Outreach
For immediate release
Contact: dghanem@communitychange.org
Welcome to the third iteration of this weekly update on the latest voter outreach efforts in Michigan. You can find last week’s here.
It’ll all come down to the turnout game in these last couple of weeks. As of Oct 16, 2024, together with our local Michigan partners we’ve:
- Knocked 240,351 doors, reaching 364,646 people
- Made 660,856 phone calls
- Made 87,514 candidate IDs, 52,054 of those positive for Harris
If you’d like to join a canvass, or other voter outreach event, or get in contact with Michigan voters, please reach me at dghanem@communitychange.org.
The last week in Michigan…
Michigan United Action joined the Respect My Vote conversation with the Hip Hop Caucus and Detroit Action to amplify the voices of Black voters.
Upcoming this month…
This third October weekend, Michigan United Action will be out in Lansing, Grand Rapids, Flint, and Saginaw with plans to knock 15k doors. And Michigan Liberation Action Fund will be out in Macomb County with plans to knock 4k doors.
On Saturday, October 19, Michigan Liberation Action Fund will join a Trunk or Treat with 12 cars to inform Detroit families about how they can make their voice heard at the ballot box.
On Sunday, November 3, Community Change Action, Michigan United Action, and Michigan Liberation Action Fund will host ‘Drag out the Vote’ in Detroit, with live performances from local drag queens and information for volunteers in a final push to get out the vote.
On Election Night, you can find grassroots organizers, volunteers, and voters at Michigan Liberation Action Fund’s ‘Dance for Democracy’ election night watch party.
Hot state news
Four takeaways from the Elissa Slotkin-Mike Rogers US Senate Debates, Todd Spangler, Lansing State Journal
672K absentee ballots cast in Michigan three weeks out from Election Day, Beth LeBlanc, Detroit News
Michigan a top winner of climate funds Trump wants to revoke, Kelly House, Bridge Michigan
Meet the Michigan Supreme Court candidates: Kyra Harris Bolden, Doug Tribou, Caoilinn Goss, Ronia Cabansag, Michigan Public Radio
Michigan by the numbers, with 26 days until Election Day
“Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remain neck-and-neck in Michigan, according to a new poll commissioned by AARP. The poll shows the two candidates tied with 46 percent each on the full ballot.” (Politico)
“Harris now has a double-digit lead over Trump among Michigan voters over 65, pulling in 53 percent support, according to a new AARP poll released Tuesday.” (Newsweek)
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About Community Change Action Voters
For almost 20 years, Community Change Action and our political committee, Community Change Voters, have redefined electoral organizing by focusing on a north star that usually goes ignored by traditional campaigns: Engaging hard-to-find, hard-to-reach Black, Latino, Native, AAPI, immigrant, women, and young voters to turn out for candidates that align with their values. This work has ramped up to a historical high in the past few months as November fast approaches, focusing on states with key swing districts where voters of color have been consequential to election results.The scale of Community Change Action/Voters’ Harris candidate ID’s is the largest from an independent expenditure program.
For the 2024 cycle, Community Change Action and Community Change Voters are investing the majority of our efforts into Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, co-implementing and co-strategizing with grassroots organizations with established community relationships as we run voter engagement programs with high-impact to our voters. Through this work, we alongside our partners plan to hold more than 2 million conversations with voters in our target states through multiple channels, including volunteer and paid canvass, phone calls, relational voter contact, mail, events, paid digital, and influencers
About our Michigan program
In Michigan, Community Change Action/Voters are focused on electing Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as President and Vice President of the United States, Rep. Elissa Slotkin to the U.S. Senate and defeating Mike Rogers, electing progressive candidates to the third, seventh, eighth, and tenth congressional districts, and securing Michigan’s 15 electoral votes.
To meet our goals of knocking almost 250,000 doors and making 1,175,000 calls to target voters in Michigan, we’re working with grassroots organizations Michigan United Action, a statewide organization of leaders working for economic and racial justice, and Michigan Liberation Action Fund, a statewide network of people and organizations organizing to end the criminalization of Black families and communities of color in Michigan. These organizations do deep voter and community outreach and organizing work in some of the most hotly-contested districts in the state.
You can learn more about our program and our partners’ programs here.
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