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.