Cliff Maloney, a U.S. political strategist known for his grassroots program 'Operation Win at the Door,' joins the conversation to discuss the upcoming election and his get-out-the-vote campaign in Pennsylvania. He shares insights on the effectiveness of door-knocking and targeting key voter demographics. The discussion also touches on the challenges of merging libertarian principles with Republican support, contrasting foreign policy views, and the rising concerns of 'woke' ideologies in education. Maloney emphasizes the necessity of open dialogue in today's polarized political climate.
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PA Chase
In 2020, Trump lost Pennsylvania by 80,000 votes, but 141,000 Republicans who requested mail-in ballots didn't return them.
Cliff Maloney's PA Chase campaign aims to fix this issue by focusing on getting out the vote through door-knocking.
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Republicans and Grassroots
Jim Rutt's mother was a Republican activist who led get-out-the-vote efforts.
Republicans were once champions of grassroots mobilization but shifted away from it, relying more on media.
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Consultant Class
Both Democrat and Republican consultant classes prioritize expensive media buys over effective grassroots mobilization.
Democrats hold their consultants accountable for using all available tactics, including door-knocking.
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Jim talks with Cliff Maloney about the November election and his get-out-the-vote campaign, The Pennsylvania Chase. They discuss Cliff's libertarian background, why Pennsylvania is a crucial state, a Republican return to grassroots, the structure of the operation, the effectiveness of door-knocking, choosing the highest-impact doors to knock on, why Cliff is helping the Republicans, Jim's political trajectory, oikophobia, why Jim finds Trump intolerable, Cliff's political background, working for Ron Paul, the loss of the anti-war left, Trump's gut instinct, Trump's deficit record, comparing the foreign policy of Nikki Haley & John McCain, hurricane relief & Ukraine relief, whether support for Ukraine is a good investment, the drug war, returning abortion rights to the states, transgender surgeries for kids, luxury beliefs, Christian nationalism in the Republican Party, woke ideology vs the nuclear family, the unsustainability of American public education, teacher's unions, politics as the adjudication of power, the importance of open disagreements, Thomas Massie, and much more.
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Get Out the Vote, by Donald Green and Alan Gerber
"Dividend Money: An Alternative to Central Banker Managed Fractional Reserve Banking Money," by Jim Rutt (YouTube)
Cliff Maloney is a United States political strategist and commentator. He is nationally known for launching the grassroots program “Operation Win at the Door,” which has now knocked on over 3 million doors and elected 300+ state legislators. His life’s mission is to create a liberty state by targeting the 5,413 state legislative seats in America to elect principled citizen legislators.
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