Source: Semafor
by David Weigel
“‘We’re finally catching up to the Democrats,’ says Cliff Maloney. ‘This is straight out of their playbook, right?’ Maloney, CEO of the conservative campaign group Citizens Alliance, set out last year to fix the Republicans’ mail vote problem. He launched the Pennsylvania Chase, hiring door-to-door canvassers to nudge the nearly 400,000 Republican voters who requested absentee ballots but hadn’t turned them in yet. ‘You can use 501c4 money, based on the FEC’s ruling, to do these types of ballot chases,’ Maloney said. Anonymous donors had funded his campaign ‘to crush commies,’ and he was implementing it, confident that he could make a Harris win impossible if he did it right. Maloney talked with Americana recently about his strategy, and this is an edited transcript of the conversation.” (10/04/24)