I’m a reliable Democratic voter, and I have benefited massively from the Affordable Care Act since I was born with cerebral palsy. If the ACA is repealed as Republicans promise, I will have to leave the country or not have health insurance. Those are the stakes of this election.
I read the article in Politico that the Biden campaign was not even polling in swing states over the last month, and that is absolutely unacceptable. Biden handpicked his campaigns top operatives himself, according to the article. Tim Kaine made this mistake on only focusing on safe wins in the 2010 election. We know how that turned out, voter turnout dropped relative to 2006 levels, and we lost the election. Hillary Clinton’s campaign and DNC operations under Debbie Wasserman Schultz did not invest in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin despite them having republican governors, and we know how the 2016 election turned out.
Twice in my life my fundamental rights have been threatened by Republicans and high-ranking Democrats have failed to protect the rights of disabled people by absurd campaigning strategies. To see President Biden following in Kaine and Clinton’s footsteps this year is infuriating to me. The DNC and the Harris campaign need to instead follow the strategy Howard Dean used in 2006 and President Obama successfully used to sail to victory with wide margins, even as Democrats were destroyed in the House elections under the strategy of only funding races we know we can win.
There is only so much I can do as a single voter. My phone banking in swing states helps a small amount, but is only a drop in the bucket compared to the resources the DNC has. I implore the DNC to continue the tried and true 50-state strategy which gave us victories in 2018 and 2020 under the leadership of Jaime Harrison, and that the DNC needs to force the Harris campaign to campaign in all 50 states, otherwise history shows Trump will probably win.