Are you prepared to engage with Trump voters? You're going to have to...

[brooklynite]

Our holding the Senate depends on re-electing Jon Tester (MT) and Sherrod Brown (OH). There is no data suggesting that either State will be in play for the Presidential Election in 2024. And no, there aren't enough hidden Democrats in either State to overcome the Republican edge. Therefore, the path to victory will rely on voters splitting their vote Trump (or Desantis) / Tester (or Brown), just like they split their votes with the Republican Governors in 2018. Publicly calling them racist Bible thumpers won't be a good strategy.

[EYESORE 9001]

1. So...our electoral fate rests with butthurt voters whose prime motivation is SPITE?!?

Charming. I’ll organize a meet’n’greet for our newfound friends. Think they’ll like finger sandwiches?

[brooklynite]

3. Reality sucks. Better get used to it.

How about: skip the sandwiches and talk to them about issues we can find common ground on?

[EYESORE 9001]

8. BTW, insinuating that they're so petty and stupid that they'd vote out of spite

is just as insulting as calling them names. Which I’d never do anyway. To their face.

[BannonsLiver]

11. I'd never know you're a devoted NYT opinion page reader.

[brooklynite]

12. Aside from the snark, do you have an alternative strategy?

[ZonkerHarris]

15. Please list those issues

[brooklynite]

16. cost of living; job security; health care; gun safety; crime come to mind...

[ZonkerHarris]

19. I don't see where common ground can be found in those issues

because according to Republicans:
inflation and the cost of living is all Biden's fault,
any health care solution is socialism,
gun safety means you just wanna take their guns,
and crime is only committed by illegal immigrants and black people

It's like you think you're dealing with rational people.
I was at the CVS recently in some MAGA hat wearing lady was ranting about Hillary Clinton being a murderer.
So good luck with that.

I think the solution is continual voter registration drives and get out the vote efforts.
A bigger pool of voters is the only way we can out vote these idiots

[CentralMass]

9. Don't forget the pudding

[dawg]

2. Your point is valid and well taken, but ...

let's never lose sight of the fact that there are enough non-voters to flip nearly any state.

[brooklynite]

17. Until someone offers a compelling strategy to turn them out, I'll stick with the voters we have

nb: Bernie Sanders' supporters claimed that disaffected non-voters were their secret weapon to win in 2016. Didn't happen.

[ZonkerHarris]

20. Turning them out is how we won 2020

Look at GA for example.

[brooklynite]

21. No evidence of that

We won for Biden because a large enough share of Trump voters grew tired of him. We won the Senate races because Trump told Republicans not to trust the voting system.

[ZonkerHarris]

22. There's evidence if you look for it...Registering new (focus on young) voters wins elections

https://circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/young-voters-decided-georgia-senate-race-shaped-other-close-elections

[DestinyIsles]

4. Jon Tester and Sherrod Brown are unique Canidates in their state.

They won in 2018 when Democrats did terribly in the Senate so I'm not too worried about 2024.

[Tetrachloride]

5. Move to Ohio

[stopdiggin]

6. if Trump keeps on publicly endorsing candidates ..

that will help. (I'm sure that, by this time, a good many of them are praying that he just shut up - but that never stopped the man before - and they don't have near enough guts to say so)

[brooklynite]

7. I'm hearing the likely Republican candidate in OH is SoS Frank LaRose...

...who won two Statewide races.

[nevergiveup]

10. I think there is a chance that

Brown can hold on but although I will send him money I believe Tester will need divine intervention to hold onto his seat.

[ret5hd]

13. Do you mean compromise?

If so, what issues?

Abortion/birth control?
Church/state issues?
LGBT issues?
Race issues?

What common ground is there?
Economy? They don’t care…just own the libs.
Foreign policy? Let Putin have it all.
Ecology? Burn till we die, baby!
The border? Machine gun towers every 50 ft.

There is no ‘engagement’ when all one side wants is hate.

[brooklynite]

14. IOW they won't have a reason to vote for Sherrod Brown or Jon Tester?

Should we give up and save the money?

Good thing we didn't follow that strategy in 2020.

[ret5hd]

18. I don't know...I'm asking you.

What areas do we agree to agree with the other side?

On edit: OR…on what subjects will they agree with us?