People’s Action and Member Organization Down Home North Carolina Called and Texted Over 4 Million Undecided Voters
Contact: Johanna Kichton, 202.660.0605, press@peoplesaction.org
WASHINGTON, D.C.—People’s Action today culminated their massive deep canvassing and movement politics program to defeat Trump in North Carolina and announced their historic results.
“We’re proud of what we did here in North Carolina,” People’s Action Director of Movement Politics Ryan Greenwood said. “We spent this election season mobilizing the multigenerational and multiracial working class to put in the ground work to defeat Trump by connecting with voters and endorsing candidates. Now, we’re ready to continue the fight and ensure our government works for us all, not just the corporations and the 1%.”
This election season featured exponential growth for People’s Action, during which the organization:
- Made more than 675,000 attempts to call conflicted and undecided voters;
- Sent more than 3.4 million texts to conflicted and undecided voters;
- Had more than 25,000 conversations with conflicted and undecided voters.
People’s Action and Down Home North Carolina nominated four state and county-level movement politics candidates:
- David Brian Wheeler for State Senate (District 47)
- Victoria Fox for State Senate (District 50)
- Aimy Steele for State House (District 82)
- Kristen Powers for Alamance County Board of Commissioners
Deep canvass phone calls are candid conversations between canvassers and voters in which participants reflect on the experiences that shape what’s at stake for them. These conversations are critical to not only defeating Trump but also to building bridges among a divided America. People’s Action recently released new results from a deep canvass experiment it conducted showing that the method is about 102 times more effective at moving individual voters than the typical presidential persuasion program. Of the people People’s Action talks to, 48% move towards Biden and 21% completely switched to Biden from voting for Trump or being undecided.
People’s Action’s Movement Politics program recruits, runs, and elects progressives into local and statewide offices across the country. Since 2016, People’s Action has helped elect over 350 movement politics candidates. The program focuses on electing women, people of color, and low-income people who are grounded in progressive movement building with our member organizations.
About People’s Action
People’s Action is a national network of 37 state and local grassroots, power-building organizations united in fighting for justice. We operate the largest progressive rural organizing project in the country. People’s Action and its member organizations are coordinating one of the biggest distributed organizing programs in rural areas this election season.
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