Four years ago, President-to-be Joe Biden narrowly won the swing states of Arizona and Georgia by about 11,000 votes each. This time around, Heritage Action for America was determined to ensure residents of both states were registered to vote in the 2024 presidential election.
This year, the conservative grassroots organization kicked its voter registration efforts into high gear.
As a result of Heritage Action’s nonstop effort to boost voter turnout on Nov. 5, the registration rolls in Arizona and Georgia alone saw an increase of more than 80,000 voters this cycle.
Former President Donald Trump won Georgia on Tuesday, and while The Associated Press still has not called Arizona for him, as of midafternoon Friday, he holds a 52.6% to 46.5% lead over Vice President Kamala Harris.
In 2020, it was a different story. After years of Republican victories, Biden won Georgia by 11,779 votes and he took Arizona by 10,457 votes. Biden’s winning margin was 20,682 in another swing state, Wisconsin.
“Nationwide, Biden’s Electoral College victory was secured by only 44,000 votes in three states, underscoring the potential outcome-changing power of Heritage Action’s targeted voter registration and turnout effort in those states,” said a press release from Heritage Action, an independent partner of The Heritage Foundation.
Heritage Action announced in early July that it would continue in its “strategic effort to register enough voters in key swing states to give conservative candidates the electoral edge ahead of the election in November.”
Heritage Action hired 14 people to do full-time door-knocking in the state of Arizona and 36 people in Georgia. They door-knocked on 250,000 homes, sent 5.2 million text messages to those people, and conducted 90,000 live calls back to those homes. As a result, Heritage Action registered 81,000 people across those two states.
“We were having conversations, listening, importantly, to the people and the concerns that they had,” Heritage Action Executive Vice President Ryan Walker told The Daily Signal.
One of the key issues that affected the suburban women’s vote was energy-efficiency requirements for home appliances, according to Walker. Most people don’t know that the federal government sets energy-efficiency standards for those appliances.
“This is a really important point, because Trump ended up winning suburban women 51% to 47%, and so we were able to connect the dots between [what] … certainly was put on steroids under the Biden-Harris regime to effectively do away with the efficiency of your home appliances,” Walker said.
Heritage Action has equipped more than 2 million activists positioned nationwide to fight for key conservative policy issues. The organization’s Sentinels program trains more than 20,000 everyday citizens to go out into the political battlefields of their communities, local institutions, and state governments to uphold right-leaning principles.
This election cycle alone, six Heritage Action “Sentinels” won races across their states. Here is a list of them:
- In Georgia, Noelle Kahaian won a state House race for District 81.
- In Missouri, Cathy Jo Loy won a state House for District 163.
- In Oklahoma, Mark Chapman won a state House for District 12.
- In Texas, Hillary Hickland won a state House race for District 55.
- In Utah, Lisa Shepherd won a state House race for District 61.
- Randy Hough won reelection to his Board of Education seat in the Fayette County Public Schools to represent District 1 in Georgia.
“Our work has only just begun,” Walker said in a statement. “Over the next four years, we will continue the fight to reverse the Left’s disastrous immigration policies and secure the border, cut taxes for hardworking Americans, and reduce the skyrocketing inflation that has crippled the economy.”
Heritage Action was proud to be part of “one of the best ground games that the conservative movement has ever put together,” Walker said.
“I think that we’re in the golden era of conservative politics and Republican control of all aspects of government,” he said. “And for that, I think that we should be really excited.”
This article was originally published at www.dailysignal.com
