each of the trips clinton will take in the first part of the week are tied directly to the opening of early-vote periods or approaching registration deadlines. | getty by gabriel debenedetti 10/09/16 03:52 pm edt st. louis <u+2014> donald trump is down. now democrats want to knock him out. with the republican nominee reeling like never before after friday<u+2019>s explosive tape release, allies of hillary clinton in battleground states are pushing harder on the accelerator, hoping to pull away from trump by banking as many early voters and new voter registrations as possible. story continued below there<u+2019>s been no directive from clinton<u+2019>s brooklyn headquarters <u+2014> which had already mounted an aggressive early voting and registration push <u+2014> since the revelation of the 2005 tape that captured trump boasting about groping women against their will. but democrats on the ground in the swing states nonetheless turbocharged their efforts on saturday, having identified a glaring opportunity to vault ahead, particularly with the suburban women he desperately needs on his side. <u+201c>there<u+2019>s no doubt that we<u+2019>re banking every vote we can right now, given what<u+2019>s happening. it<u+2019>s especially important,<u+201d> said ohio democratic party chairman david pepper, who on sunday morning tweeted encouragement to his state party members to <u+201c>keep working @ohdems <u+2014> while they<u+2019>re panicking. 1) register people, 2) vote early, 3) knock on doors, 4) make phone calls." 2016 by annie karni <u+201c>in the last week and a half in ohio we<u+2019>ve already seen energy building,<u+201d> pepper said. "but now it<u+2019>s like nothing we<u+2019>ve ever seen." and after sunday night<u+2019>s debate, clinton herself will once again join in: each of the trips she<u+2019>ll take in the first part of the week is tied directly to the opening of early-vote periods or approaching registration deadlines. much as she did in iowa at the beginning of that state<u+2019>s early-voting period in late september, clinton will touch down in ohio on monday, one day before the voter registration deadline and two days before early voting. she<u+2019>ll be in michigan that same day ahead of tuesday<u+2019>s registration deadline, florida on tuesday to mark its voter registration deadline that day, and nevada on wednesday to remind voters of its early voting period later in the month <u+2014> all in a bid to keep democrats engaged and energized. but that<u+2019>s not all: most of the clinton camp<u+2019>s recent surrogate trips, including by former president bill clinton and bernie sanders, have also been pegged to impending deadlines or voting periods. the coordinated push, which has been a main campaign priority for weeks, is part of the calculation by her political brain trust that over 40 percent of voters in the key states will cast early ballots. to that point, campaign manager robby mook said last week that north carolina, florida and nevada <u+2014> three high-priority battleground states <u+2014> could each be decided before nov. 8. finding it especially easy to energize organizers and voters after major campaign moments, democrats had already sought to take advantage of clinton<u+2019>s first debate performance and trump<u+2019>s subsequent slide as they turn to focus almost entirely on quickly turning out their base. <u+201c>the secretary<u+2019>s debate performance of two weeks ago was a motivating factor,<u+201d> said new hampshire democratic party chairman raymond buckley. <u+201c>we certainly saw an uptick in support, we saw an uptick in enthusiasm, we saw an uptick in people being engaged." and democrats are suddenly finding that offensive even easier than it was last week, partially since gop operatives are now receiving mixed messages from washington and manhattan about the extent to which they should be working on behalf of trump while he gears up for another war with the party<u+2019>s leadership. by steven shepard , jake sherman and anna palmer <u+201c>for them to be demoralized just as early vote is starting is terrible for them. that<u+2019>s when you need passionate volunteers to do a whole lot of work. hard work,<u+201d> said pepper. <u+201c>you can<u+2019>t do enough to encourage people to vote early, get votes locked in, and encourage anyone who<u+2019>s voted to get involved further.<u+201d> <u+201c>there<u+2019>s no reason people shouldn<u+2019>t be voting now.<u+201d> voter registration numbers trending democrats<u+2019> way had already given them reason for confidence, particularly in battleground states where registration has been a specific priority ever since clinton<u+2019>s team landed there earlier this year. in north carolina <u+2014> where team clinton expects most voters to cast early ballots <u+2014> for example, the party has seen unprecedented success bringing on new latino voters. and in colorado <u+2014> a state where the voter registration effort was always regarded by democrats as an insurance policy <u+2014> a majority of registered voters are democrats for the first time in 30 years, according to numbers released on monday. so, newly armed with the trump video and a freshly divided gop, the democratic party that woke up on sunday was a party on offense. <u+201c>there are those swing voters that just tuned in now, and their lives are very busy and complicated, and they just were not really focusing on the presidential race,<u+201d> said buckley. <u+201c>and now they are.<u+201d> by bill scher by thomas wright by joshua zeitz by jack shafer
clinton allies rush to scoop up voters while trump<u+2019>s down - politico
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