IS THIS WHERE BRONX ASSEMBLYMAN MICHAEL BLAKE WILL BE ON ELECTION DAY?

On Tuesday, November 7th, voters in Virginia and New Jersey will go to the polls to cast their votes and Democrats have unique opportunities to win up and down the ticket in both states. The new DNC is focused on organizing 365 days a year and ensuring that our Every ZIP Code Counts program is helping partners all across the country.

Democrats have the opportunity to flip New Jersey’s governor seat from red to blue by electing Phil Murphy and hold Virginia’s governor seat by electing Ralph Northam. With only days left, the DNC is all-in in electing Democrats up and down the ballot.

VIRGINIA
The DNC made a $1.5 million investment, which allowed the Virginia coordinated campaign to immediately hire 40 additional field organizers and includes significant investments in digital, data, and tech infrastructure and the implementation of constituency-specific organizing in African-American, Latino and AAPI communities. The national Out of Commonwealth (OOCW) program is run by DNC staffer Ramsey Reid and as part of the OOCW, organizers have been hired with specific focuses on African-American, Latino, AAPI, millennial and faith outreach.  
In addition, the DNC has invested in mailers to the African-American, Latino and AAPI communities, blanketed the airwaves across the Commonwealth with top diverse surrogates and implemented a strategic and aggressive media plan to reach Latino voters. In the final few days leading up to election day, the majority of the DNC staff has or will be deployed into Virginia to help knock doors across the state. In addition, DNC Chair Tom Perez, Deputy Chair Keith Ellison, Vice-Chair Michael Blake, and Associate Chair Jaime Harrison will also campaign through Virginia.
In total, field staffers and volunteers knocked on 261,835 doors last weekend, a more than 192 percent increase from the same weekend in 2013 and a 66 percent increase from the same weekend in 2016. We have 31,000 door-knocking shifts scheduled for GOTV. In 2013, we had 13,000 door-knocking shifts scheduled for GOTV.

NEW JERSEY
Phil Murphy and Sheila Oliver are positioned to be the next governor and lieutenant governor of New Jersey and make life better for New Jerseyans across the state who suffered under the scandal-plagued Christie administration.
The DNC announced a six-figure investment in New Jersey’s critical November elections to support Murphy, Oliver and Democrats running up and down the ticket with GOTV organizing efforts, digital, data, and tech infrastructure and providing field support and volunteer recruitment through field and surrogate events.
The DNC has also provided the New Jersey Democratic Party with ‘Resistbot’ - a new tool that encourages voters to “make a plan to vote” and figure out where to vote on election day.
Lastly, the DNC has invested in key local elections, including seats that could be flipped from Republican to Democratic.