So far the only republican who has announced they are running is Dave Mccormick. He's the "best" the party could come up with to run against three term incumbent Bob Casey, who is a moderate Democrat.
We need some help creating some campaign videos, making connections and gathering signatures to get her name on the ballot. Any help or advice is appreciated! Funds are very limited are on our end as we have been struggling in the Biden economy after we bought our first house in 2022.
I know my wife would be much better for this county and our state than anyone that the deep state or even the normie GOP can come up with.
Thanks y'all 🙏
I met with a senator in my state when we ran for US Congress.
His advice was the best and honest. Be prepared to run twice, the first time you are learning so much that you most likely won’t win. If you do, great, but know going in your need to expect to run twice.
People will tell you money rules. Those people are idiots, clear answers and a good platform can win without money. Sadly too many people don’t know and they think money solves everything. It doesn’t.
You will find the GOP is corrupt. All they and anyone usually will want is your money. They will sell you on signs and all sorts of crap and happily take all the money you can give them. Don’t.
Find someone willing to do your finances and FEC stuff, that is the most time consuming and crazy stuff. Lots of work and you need someone smart.
Find someone else who can help as a campaign manager and do it pro bono. Offer them the chance at a position once you’re in office. Have them contact all counties and find out all meetings to meet with all of them. Get to know the precincts for sure and ask them for help. Have this person also help craft your platform.
Then, find someone who’s willing to do your social media. Have them network to find others online who can help. Ask them to help you post content daily.
Find someone who can put a simple website online for you and hopefully they can write decent too so that can help you articulate your platform well. Use this person also to do your marketing print materials like business cards and door hangers. One person is best so that the branding is consistent. Keep it super simple and easy to use. It’s a waste of time going fancy.
Last, find someone who can help you rally volunteers. Use volunteers to go door to door and hang door hangers. Make sure that when you ask people to help, be very specific and say what they will do exactly, exactly when they need to be there, make the time commitment short and clear (I.e. 2 hours), and make sure you are clear where to meet and all that. If it isn’t clear and it’s open ended, no one will volunteer. If it’s a simple meet here at x am and walk around hanging flyers for two hours, easy.
Meet with your core team weekly and create an open environment to have people contribute ideas. Expect that some will fall out along the way. A small tight core team of about seven is all you need if they are smart and put in the effort.
If you don’t have people you know already, go to churches, barber shops, gun shops, or anywhere with high conservative concentration and you’ll find folks.
And before you go out, write your platform and stick to it. Be bold. Don’t be gay like most GOP who say be in the middle so you can draw more gay lib or middle of the road votes. That’s the gayest thing in the world. Be bold. Be conservative. Be different. In the end, people won’t look at a stupid sign in a yard. They won’t give you a vote because you spent thousands on buttons, stickers, tshirts, or whatever crap.they will read your words in the voters pamphlet and they will google you and read your website. They will also respect you for a door hanger. Believe it or not. If shows initiative. In the end, money doesn’t do much for you. Spend the money on a driver because you will be driving to so many meetings you will need help keeping up.
Godspeed.
Wow one of the best reply I've seen.
I've volunteered with the local gop and helped with several campaigns.
Your advice is 100% correct.
Wow two.
I wonder if you need to add some advice since it's PA.. the most corrupt mafia operated state. They don't just let any newcomers in
I won’t give away my state but I will say that I ran against a corrupt GOP candidate who had no issue lying about my campaign. He was a piece of trash with worthless credentials; only value he had was a big pocketbook.
But even still, the value that this method brought was 12x. For every dollar we spent, he had to spend 12x to compete with me.
Not sure if we are as corrupt here as PA but I bet we would give it a running chance. Kek.
I heard about a guy who won with very little money. He stood at a busy intersection with a sign that said he was running and to pull over and ask him questions. When people did, he would post these interviews on social media. Eventually, more and more people stood with him. I would pick 5 busy intersections and stand there.
The Senate is a big jump. You may want to set sights on a more local office where she can do retail politics by going door to door and having rallies.
Hey Trump went straight to president!
But he had the money and name recognition.
Did you start a give send go for your campaign? Maybe people could donate there.
Door to door. Talk to the community. Fund raising somehow.
The campaign videos are gonna be a hard pill. U have to buy prime time commercial slots from the network. Unless u buy ad space on youtube.
With limited funds, you may have to be bare bones. Im no expert, but i could guess. The hardest part is to convince the ppl to vote for a nobody (dont mean to sound rude, sorry if i do). Remwmber, majority of democrats and dead ppl vote blue no matter what. Republicans i feel are wishy washy But if your wife has fire, she could shake up the establishment, and maybe, that would be enough for a win.
How ever you guys get it going, i wish you the best of luck and win that seat.
That's what I would suggest. Also do electronic like the mod Brent75 said.
Another thing you could do is to talk to the businesses. Many business owners voted with their pocketbooks.
I would start with a local state house or senate seat. It's possible to win that with your current circumstances.
You need to work your way up.
People want to see a track record of votes, for a major job like that.
Run for a state level position that is softly contested instead. The party will help you rather than fight you.
There is a lot of political in infrastructure already in place. Just need more good people actively participating.
Attend your county committee meetings and see where you can run with a small budget.
You need funding to hire a campaign pro and get party nod. You can start by meeting with all GOP affiliates in the state. Be ready. Everyone with a business to protect has a candidate in mind. Its as much changing local minds as well as getting local business approval.
Fuck the party nod. PA republican party hates the little people. There's a massive campaign already running to unseat US Rep. Scott Perry, who is imo the only solid R currently holding a PA federal office.
Set up Facebook, Instagram, Truth, and X pages too. We have a few House Reps that ran only on FB and Instagram and won. Though keep in mind running for Senate is much more difficult than a Rep since Senators deal with actually backing/discussing Federal/States law and Constitutional Law. vs. just throwing đź’© at the fan to see what sticks like many House Reps. She has to know how to read law, policy, and procedure, know her US, law, and Constitutional history. You also must be prepared to deal with the snakes and political corruption salesmen to sell you out to hold something over you. And those will come from every angle and walk of life in DC, and by staff. Trust NO ONE.
You both also need to have a clean back ground, and be prepped to defend any skeletons that come up. The media right now will dig into anything and everything to make it an issue to destroy you both and your family. And work to pit you against her with some greasy dirt. So if you have greasy dirt, come clean on it and defend with facts and truth, or the media will, will tear you both to shreds.
And probably don’t discuss this further here. Any Glowies will already be searching you out to pin to her, to label you Conspiracy Folk, like MTG had issues with her first term. Not that we aren’t an awesome group to have in your back pocket. But until Trump has torn down the current crappy media, being a GAW Member won’t help in the current media climate. And that really sucks for me to state too. Because I love my Anons and forum, but the media just F-ing sucks to deal with.
Is there a local based church who can support you? Start there
Scott Presler?
Try to get on a big show like Timcast IRL. Superchat on an episode to get attention.
precinctstrategy.com/resources might help.
It's all about that primary, too. Research how AOC came to be.
I know someone to ran for office and has been a part of several other peoples campaigns. One useful thing to know is there are professional political fundraisers, they’ll turn away a waste of time, but a Christian Conservative female might make enough sense to do statistically that they’d take you on and help you get in front of their political connections. It sounds scary at first when you hear the cut you want, but if they are legit it’s more than worth it.
If you have a long friend list to call and hit $15k donations, you can (in areas outside major cities) probably get a local office, and a state office if you use that $15k to prove to donors that you are able to get donations as long as you get in front of eyes.
Realistically even a grassroots run for US senate likely takes over $100k. There’s just a minimum spend for people to know who you are to even get enough grassroots volunteers.
I know a maga guy who had 20k for a state level rep position, got a ton of votes, but lost to a guy with $75k. He gets people telling him they wish he won instead still, but doing a good job can’t surpass what blanket advertising can do.
You need a team of people willing to work for free because they believe in the same causes. You have to look at it like you're a writer/director making your first film . Everyone will help in that guerilla style because they have the same goal
You need an finance manager, and a press person for your headquarters which will be your house.
You need family and friends to go house to house with a list of 5 major issues your wife intends to push for.
And the best way to spread the news of your wife's campaign? Find a local promotional company that will get you some personalized shirts and signs. Each house your team canvases should receive a sign. However this may prove to be too costly, so make digital flyers with campaign promises on them. Give a sheet with a QR code that'll link directly to the flyers or a simple free website that discusses her platform.
And by all means, when the attacks come, never waver from the message
Do you have any local Patriot groups that could help?
I personally know someone who was a successful campaign manager, and still runs them on the side, so I learned something about how at least some of them think. I spoke with him before and his mentality of things is sectionalising people into groups. As in, this group has this interest that must be spoken to and this group has this interest.
To be fair, one of his ads that he designed won an award and he has a good record of wins ... But his logic is also flawed. As is the logic of any advisor who wants to break up a message to cater to divergent groups.
My advice to your wife, speak to common interests that unite people. Speak to needs. To hopes, to dreams. Do what Trump does. Focus on what can actually be done within the realm of possibility and say what you hope to shoot for beyond. Speak to how things are and how the system is failing us, though I would suggest she try to avoid being personal. Speak of the system but don't make it personal so she doesn't invite sensational attack ads. If those come, have the high ground.
Also, be honest above all.
She needs to play to her strengths of personality. If she is humorous, leverage it to relate with the crowd. Self deprecating humor is a wonderful tool in that case, if done right like how Reagan did to disarm critics.
If she is honest and frank, then she should be that with her future constituents. Let them know who she is, what to expect, and what she hopes to do. Make sensationalist attacks that much more difficult and that much easier to expose.
Above all, remember the most important thing that both you and her can do. Pray. if this is what God wants for her, pray. She should do all that she can to stay within his will. Read the Bible. Study. Consider the lessons about leadership that can be learned from those who came before and what God says. I believe these instructions for leaders are within the Bible itself concerning Isreal's kings. We have both good examples and bad in what kings followed this and what didn't.
It will become an open possibility soon enough!
I am from PA good luck with that.
This the most corrupt state run by the biggest communists and a huge union stronghold.
You saw what they do in the elections here.
You are kidding right?
Fetterman couldnt even afford an apartment.
Summer Lee had no $ and went door-to-door and phone calling.
Summer Lee had Dirty money backing her.
Same with Fetterman.
Both had Commie Shapiro flipping election results.