The Trump Campaign’s Big Gamble

from The New York Times I'm Rachel. Abrams and this is the. daily the presidential campaign is in. its final week and one thing Still. Remains true the election is probably. going to come down to just a handful of. Voters in a few swing States today my. colleagues Jessica Chung and Jonathan. Swan take us inside Donald Trump's. unorthodox campaign to win over those. voters it's Monday October 28th.

prevailing wisdom in American politics. dictates that the ground game matters. things like door knocking phone Banking. and getting out the vote but in a race. that looks as tight as the 2024. presidential election the ground game. can be the difference between winning. and losing the Harris campaign has been. running a really traditional and. extremely well-funded ground operation. it has paid staff members and armies of. canvassers who are all focused on. turning out every single voter they can.

find the Trump campaign on the other. hand they've got a totally different. approach first of all they've got less. money and less paid staff so it's a. smaller ground. operation some of the get out the vote. work has been taken on by outside groups. like Elon musk's super pack and the. actual field offices they're leaning a. lot more heavily on. volunteers to get a sense of what this. effort looks like inside one of those. offices we sent daily producer Jessica. Chung to a key place in a key swing. stage.

Maricopa County Arizona it's the most. populous county in the state where more. than half of all of Arizona's voters. live Trump won it in 2016 and then Biden. eak out a victory there in 2020 here's. Jess speak from New York yes the office. of the Maricopa County Republican party. is just southeast of Phoenix it sits on. a quiet street in an anonymous looking. office park next to a tiling company be. right down okay thanks I out there on a.

Tuesday afternoon hi you must be Craig. hi nice to meet you I'm Jess Craig. Berlin is the chair of the Maricopa. County Republican committee he has all. the businessman Staples warm smile tidy. suit Wim glasses handshake firm but not. too firm go upstairs yes okay or maybe. like a little tour too we go upstairs. and Craig starts to show me around oh so. this is new this is pretty new oh where. were you guys before we didn't have a. place oh wow we basically bummed around.

um and the Maricopa Republicans just. moved here in May but they've really. made this place their own first of all. what I don't know if you noticed when. you walked in but all the windows. outside are are mirrored and the. American and Arizona flag are mirrored. in all the windows as you're walking in. once you get inside this place might. look like any random office space we're. not for the decor which is festively. Trump a lot of it's Trump related at the.

top of the steps there's a life-size. cardboard cutout of the former president. with Melania in the lobby there's a. large screen TV with Trump giving a. speech there's Red Balloons all over and. there are portraits Lincoln Reagan. Frederick Douglas and Trump you a whole. store St and there's merch tons of merch. there's all kinds of t-shirts and hats. Craig points to a glass conference room. that's been repurposed to what he refers. to as the Trump store it's stuffed with. packs of shirts and there are flags that.

say God Guns and guts but there's also. some men's rings and uh I think there's. an $800 pair of golden tennis shoes in. there and I imagine the proceeds would. go to us yeah right. [Music]. exactly these days Craig says he's here. 50 hours a week fundraising planning. events and helping to direct according. to him more than a thousand volunteers. who come here to elect.

Republicans in this close election. Arizona is a big deal polls show it. could be very close again and just to. remind you when Biden won the state in. 2020 he won by less than 11,000 votes. that was out of more than 3 million. votes cast in a place like this efforts. to get voters to the polls could be the. difference between winning and losing so. we can set here if you want and to. understand what this office is doing and. it's mission in these critical final.

days it's helpful to know the story of. how Craig ended up here I grew up in. Kansas in a very small farming and oil. country Craig was a small town kid. turned businessman he worked for General. Motors and eventually he moved his. family to Arizona where he started an. aerospace company yeah it's like many. Americans right your head's down you. know you got payroll to make you got new. quotes to make you got product to ship. Craig says he would vote rep.

but that was pretty much the extent of. his political involvement until 2020. well I didn't like what happened in the. 2020. election I remember sitting there in our. family room switching from one station. to the next and then getting my phone. out and looking for the New York Times. or somebody to see what the counts of. ballots were and what was left and. mentally doing math if you forgot during. the 2020 election Maricopa County was. Ground Zero for an ugly fight over.

alleged election fraud it started on. Election night I can say that when we. became very concerned is when all of a. sudden counting started shutting down at. many states right you know it was. Atlanta and it was it was Detroit and it. you know and you're going that has never. happened before what's going on Craig is. referring to an allegation from 2020. that some Battleground states where. Donald Trump was ahead decided to stop.

counting in order to prevent him from. winning this idea took off on Facebook. among his supporters who are suspicious. of the voting system for the record this. theory has been thoroughly debunked in. Atlanta counting was only paused briefly. after a pipe burst on Election. Day and election officials in other. states said they never stopped counting. votes including as Craig alleged in. Detroit but for Craig he wasn't buying.

it you know we were all sitting there on. at night and we seen that the candidates. that we thought should win were winning. and then in the middle of the night the. voting stopped and when it restarted. again there was this shift and I guess. because of my engineering mind and the. way I've been trained is that curve is. not something that you see in nature. that's not a natural curve early results. that night misleadingly suggested that. Trump was bound for victory that could.

have been because Republican votes tend. to dominate in rural areas small towns. where counting goes faster and during. the pandemic in 2020 Democrats tended to. cast far more mail in ballots which get. counted later was it because at a. certain point they started to count the. mail and ballots which lean more. Democrat in certain. counties yeah um here in Arizona we've. had mail in ballots for a long. time I didn't perceive as that should. have been the reason reason neither.

Craig nor his wife trusted the. explanations they were hearing you know. we both thought that something was. awfully wrong and we thought we needed. to be more. involved for Craig more involved meant. first joining We the People a Alliance a. far-right activist group then he joined. the county party and eventually he was. elected chair of that party and to this. day do you still believe that Mar accy.

actually went for Trump in. 2020 despite you know many processes of. verification including a a Florida firm. had done a hand recount and found that. there was actually like 300 more votes. for Biden in the previous count so I. wonder yeah where your beliefs now. that's a complicated question and my. intuition tells me that Trump won. Arizona and do I have proof of that no. but what I do have is I do have proof. that. there was many many many many ballots in.

Maricopa County that were counted that. shouldn't have been legally so how do I. have that proof so here we go back so. this is the year before Craig became. party chair he helped lead a review of. signatures on mail and ballots in. Maricopa County and is convinced that. 10% of the mail and ballots counted in. 2020 should not have been and that's. because he claims the signatures on. those ballots did not adequately match. those on file a claim experts say is.

based on incomplete signature history. and a flawed methodology but it's still. something he's very fixated. on I'm telling you Craig's whole story. because as soon as you start talking to. others in the Maricopa County Office you. start to realize how many people there. are just like. Craig I started volunteering after a. 2020 election I wanted to find out why. my vote didn't count I spent about 2.

hours talking to volunteers who were. phone banking I was completely a. political I was new I had never never. volunteered in politics before never and. then it was after the 2020 election was. stolen then it was like okay you've got. to be more engaged and it was at that. point that I decided that I wanted my. grandkids votes to count people told me. they believe Trump won in 2020 the.

election was stolen and they were here. to fix what they think is a broken. system I'd like finding out what was. happening this is my patriotic chore my. purpose is to do my part to honor God. and my country by being here to help do. what I can in Maricopa County we have a. nickname for it it's actually Mar. corruption County oh corruption county. is that what people call it here some. people do cuz there's a a lot of that.

okay volunteer after volunteer told me. that in the years since Trump lost the. election they got involved some signed. up to work the midterm election a lot of. them had volunteered for the mail and. battle review that Craig helped lead in. 2022 and based on everything they've. done and seen they've only grown more. suspicious I was actually looking at the. depth of the dot because you could tell. if a DOT had any kind of weight to it.

huh the ovals being filled in absolutely. perfect like a dot matrix printer I. wasn't told hey this is what we think. just here do this and all the volunteers. that I managed through the course of. that project walked away with oh my. god. [Music].

all these ideas that the 2020 election. was somehow stolen from Trump aren't new. of course they're in The Ether of. Republican politics all the way up to. Trump himself that's true even though. they've been widely disproven with. scores of lawsuits over alleged election. fraud thrown out there's ample evidence. that there was no widespread voter fraud. in 2020 government officials including. Republicans have assured people that. election systems are secure but. important to understand theories of a.

stolen election are why so many people. are here it's their motivation um how. many hours have you devoted to. volunteering the election season. probably around 35 hours a week I do at. least 4 to six every day 4 to six hours. every day yes including Saturday I give. about. 50 between 50 and 60 hours a week. There's their beliefs in a stolen. election aren't just driving them to. spend all the time here they're.

affecting how they're spending that time. here today I'm late because I was. walking neighborhoods handing out golden. tickets and just to say in this office. people are spending time doing the. traditional things calling voters. knocking on doors asking people how. they're going to get to the polls they. are doing those things but a traditional. campaign would be laser focused on that. and in this office the attention is. split because Craig and his volunteers. are doing a lot of other things um back.

in the corner while we were walking. around Craig pointed out this one. conference room we have some legal. representations we kept an office there. and there's war boards wrapped around. the walls and then this office war war. boards what are War boards uh the. military will say we're going to go into. the war room and prepare for whatever's. happening we picked it up as a the War. Room War board yeah it's just a slang. yeah yeah Craig says in that room among.

all the things they're doing they're. spending time on what they call election. Integrity that has included training a. huge number of volunteers to observe. polling places and in fact Republicans. say they have a record number of pole. Watchers this election hey how you doing. as we keep walking Craig points to. another room um we do have one person. that takes care of our servers and our. data we're m massive data we collect.

video we're monitoring stuff we get from. the state the voter registration files. and we keep those up to date and so. we're monitoring those and doing. comparison oh wow so that's a huge hard. drive you have yeah it's uh millions of. Records not thousands Craig says all. these computer server systems have been. set up to store all types of records and. files deleted delection Integrity you. know we have a full-blown server room. right so we have big server Banks with. very large servers in there recording.

video recording of cameras that are on. 24 hours a day monitoring outside. dropboxes all the time so we need to. pull something up from last year we've. got. it also among those records are voter. registration files remember that mail. and bout review that Craig and some of. these volunteers were a part of when. they went in and compared signatures. from ballots to voter registration files.

to see if the signatures were a match. the whole reason they came to believe. that 10% of the male and ballots in 2020. should not have been counted well this. year they have every intention to be in. those files again asking volunteers just. regular citizens to scrutinize voter. signatures and maybe even challenge them. you can imagine all the ways that. citizens looking for suspicious activity. or raising questions about signatures. could affect this election could delay.

things perfectly valid votes could get. challenged it could be chaotic or it. could add up to a big waste of their. time there are lots of. possibilities no matter how it goes all. this focus on what they consider. election Integrity takes resources away. from the traditional work of a campaign. office resources spent on efforts like. this are resources not spent on getting. out the vote that happened in 22 you can. also Imagine That all the skepticism.

about elections could hurt voter. Outreach and do you worry by talking. more about election Integrity that it. might actually create more distrust yeah. um well that's an Achilles heal and and. you know it's not without Merit a lot of. Voters right now that didn't vote in 22. didn't vote because they did not trust. the election system to count their vote. I said why why should I vote if it's if. there's going to be a cheat why should I. vote and in and it's it's it's difficult.

sometimes to really convince people that. it's absolutely critical to vote it's. difficult because they're encouraging. people to vote at the exact same time. they're telling people their vote might. not count so given these two things I. ask Craig what he wants Republican. voters to do and his advice is a little. confusing our message is if you get a. mailin ballot the number one priority is. is vote it what we'd like to see you do. is go in on Election Day turn in your.

spoil your mail-in ballot and vote in. person that's the best and you run. through the tabulator and you're done uh. but if you don't do that then at least. turn it in and don't and we don't want. you to turn it in late just to be clear. it in Craig has been telling people to. vote in person and if they can't do that. he wants them to take their mail and. ballot to the polls and use it as a. guide to vote person and if they can't.

do that only as a last resort mail it in. do you worry that that might actually. confuse people or like a voter might say. that's a lot of Hoops to jump through I. don't want to think about it I'm just. not going to vote well yeah the one. thing we leave them with is vote no. matter what you do vote that's the. number one priority is vote you have to. exercise your right to vote.

before I left the Maricopa County. Republican offices I asked Craig if all. of this was the right approach or. whether he wishes he didn't have to do. any of this that he could just focus on. getting votes out and. winning Craig sees it differently. because he says he genuinely believes. the election was stolen last time so to. him this is part of winning they're. doing exactly what they should be. doing and the effort he says is.

[Music]. [Music]. huge after the break my colleague. Jonathan swan makes sense of what we saw. in Maricopa County and explains how it. fits into Trump's strategy to win the. [Music]. election we'll be right back.

Jonathan hi great to have you here hi. Rachel thanks for having me so Jonathan. you cover Donald Trump's presidential. campaign and my colleague who is a daily. producer Jess Chung she went out to. Trump's field office in Maricopa County. in Arizona recently and what she found. was this operation that at least on the. surface seemed a little bit scrambled. there was of course the regular. campaigning stuff there was the door. knocking the phone banking all of that. but then there was this whole other.

piece that was focused on Election. integrity and that felt like it was. taking up a surprising amount of time. and energy and in a lot of ways it. actually felt like the animating force. behind why a lot of volunteers had come. out in the first place and so I guess my. question for you is what do you make of. that and is that what the Trump campaign. field office is supposed to be focused. on right. now well this all flows from the top.

this is Donald Trump and let me just. give you a little flavor of how he. thinks about the race because I think. it's really important to understand when. you see something like this in Maricopa. County it's not an accident it's. something that you know has has flowed. down from Donald Trump and not just over. the last few months but really over the. last three and a half. years when Donald Trump talks about the. election in private something he often. says to his advisers is don't worry.

about getting people to vote I'll take. care of that what you need to take care. of is stopping Democrats from stealing. the election stopping them from cheating. wow the message Trump gave to his new. chairman Michael Watley from North. Carolina was your mission number one two. and three is to quote unquote stop the. steal Trump didn't really want to hear. about anything else so while it's true. that his campaign is doing many. traditional things it's not that Trump.

doesn't want them doing any of that but. the thing that animates Trump most of. all is this notion he has in his head. which I should say is completely. baseless there is no evidence that. Democrats stole the last election and. Trump's team was comprehensively. defeated in court many many times trying. to prove his case but what he tells his. team in private is you need to stop. Democrats from cheating I will take care. of turning voters out but don't those.

two things kind of work against each. other like when Jess went to Maricopa. County she was hearing about how Trump. supporters were feeling kind of deflated. like why would we bother voting in a. rigged system so this constant stop the. steel stop the steel does that have a. depressing effect on turnout well it. definitely could and there were a lot of. Republican strategists who felt that. that's exactly what happened in the. Georgia runoff elections after the 2020e. ction which Republicans lost which is.

Trump basically went to the state and. said they stole the election. everything's rigged etc etc well Ergo. why would I bother voting if Democrats. are just going to steal it right Trump. has kind of altered that message a. little bit and he said you know we need. to go out in such large numbers that. they can't possibly steal it from us. what's what's that Trump slogan that's. trying to thread the needle on this too. big to rig yeah and I think swamp the. vote is the other one but basically the. idea here is we need to vote in such.

decisive numbers that it's too big for. them to steal I want to turn back to. something you said earlier which was. that Trump basically told his advisers. don't worry about the votes I will bring. out the votes and that sort of suggests. to me that he's actually not relying on. these field offices like in Maricopa. County to get people out to the polls he. thinks that he can drive them to the. polls so what is his strategy to do that. to make it as he put it too big to.

rig I think what's sometimes hard for. people to absorb when they think about. Trump and his campaign is Trump's own. theory of the case as he articulates it. often privately and publicly is absurd. you know Trump's theory of the case is. if it's a quote unquote Fair election if. there's no cheating I'll win everywhere. I'll win New York I'll win California. you know etc etc he doesn't just say. that publicly he he also says it. privately I have no idea what he.

believes in his heart of hearts but. that's what he says but then so you have. this like fairly. absurd theory of the case if you can. even call it that and then overlaid on. top of that is a sophisticated campaign. operation which is running a smart and. targeted campaign focused on a really. small Slither of Voters the undecideds. yeah the the campaign sees the. electorate the way they've modeled it.

right now that there's only about 5% of. Voters that they think are truly remain. truly undecided and a couple maybe a. couple of extra percent of Voters that. maybe soft CA supporters that they see. as. movable they're 59% male MH they're. young about half are under the age of 45. and these are not political people. they're heavily independent and they're. more pessimistic about the economy than.

the elector r large and they're more. concerned about inflation and everything. they're doing from The Campaign. Headquarters is targeted at turning out. that group how willing is Trump to take. direction from his campaign well in many. cases he is taking direction from his. campaign he's traveling to where they. say he needs to travel um and where. their data tells him that he needs to. travel and he's cting the exact same. vote that they've identified as these.

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and and Trump is really at home in those. interviews yeah does Baron play sports. or anything he does he plays golf and. different sports soccer loves soccer. very good at soccer uh he's a good. athlete Baron yeah and when you listen. to them you know he gets to basically. just in this very comfortable setting. just riff and joke and talk about a. mixture of like personal family stuff. with you know how terrible Democrats are. and how they're destroying the country.

she was considered the worst vice. president in the history of our country. so you know that's what he's been doing. and it's been reaching really large. audiences of these people that they need. to turn. out so even though Trump thinks that. he's so popular he doesn't really need. to do much to sweep the election if. they're free and fair as he said he's. still mostly showing up and doing the. things his campaign is directing him to. do so look you have this dichotomy where. on one hand Trump's campaign is very.

data driven the podcasts appearances. that he's doing may look very sort of. loose and rambling Etc but behind them. is real data showing that this is where. you need to be to reach these young men. but on the other hand Trump is running. to some extent a very gut driven. campaign and in some areas following his. gut over the data the very clear data. that's being presented to him by his. campaign officials and the clearest.

example of that is immigration Donald. Trump has been given data by his. advisers there this is both public and. private data showing unequivocally that. the economy is the most important issue. to the voters he needs to reach and. inflation and Donald Trump disagrees he. feels at a gut level that immigration. and the border is the issue that. motivates people more than any other. issue and he believes that's why he won. the election in 2016 and so he's. returning to that with his emphasis in.

in this election as we rebuild our. economy we will also restore our borders. if you don't mind and you sort of had. this moment recently in Atlanta where. Trump just turns his back to the crowd. and they play this video open borders. deadly consequences border crisis record. high Crossings are putting a strain on. cities across America this Montage of.

just horrific crimes being committed by. undocumented immigrants my 20-year-old. daughter Kayla Hamilton was murdered in. her own room Kayla's murderer was. apprehended by border patrol processing. illegally into the US's murder and Trump. turns around that's number one that's. number one I will tell you right now. immigration is the number one issy that. beats it all out to me it's not even. close the United States is now that. beats it out it's not even close and.

that's basically a public. iteration of a private conversation that. Donald Trump has been having with his. advisers for weeks so it's not like he's. not talking about the economy he's doing. a ton of economy themed events at his. advisor behest and he's doing economy. focused interviews you know so it's not. that he's not talking about it and. certainly their paid advertising has. been talking a lot about it but there. has been a disagreement between. campaign's data and Trump's gut and.

Trump is going with his gut in terms of. his emphasis of IM immigration you know. it really feels like people are often. overestimating Trump or underestimating. Trump like either they think that he's. some kind of marketing genius who knows. exactly how to connect with people when. he follows his gut or they think he's. like a delusional narcissist who only. acts out of impulse or self-interest and. when you look at this campaign I feel. like it might be hard to tell whether. you think that some of these itics are. genius or insane or both what do you.

make of it when you look at it well it's. pretty hard to to to make any. declarations about this until we see the. election results and even after then. there's going to be this always happens. the winning campaign everything they did. was genius and then the losing campaign. or just a bunch of idiots and the truth. is that neither is necessarily true but. I think the campaign and Trump have made. some pretty significant bets in this. election. and those bets will either prove to be.

really smart or fatally flawed what I. will say is that the bets they've made. in some cases are bets of necessity I'll. just give you one example they have made. a huge bet that they will turn out. people who don't usually vote and that. will either be a spectacular success or. these people who who like Trump or lean. towards Trump may not bother to vote or. or they may not have the ground. operation that is uh effective enough to.

get those people to the polls and that's. a bet but I'm not sure what else they. could do it's not like you'd send Donald. Trump around to go to a bunch of Whole. Foods in in you know North Arlington and. talk to all the the mums there and say. Hey you know I'm going to be your. protector you know as he's been saying. i' be the protector of women it's you. know I don't know how much room Donald. Trump has to move with Suburban women. for example so it it yes it's a bet it's. a Gam but they're working with what. they've got the candidate is the.

candidate they've got it's not like the. the views about Donald Trump are hugely. malleable at this point they're just. going where they're fishing where the. fish are and we'll see maybe they didn't. have the infrastructure in place to to. pull this off but I I think based on the. electorate as it is it's pretty hard to. argue with their strategy I would say. you know this whole conversation and. looking at the difference between the. Harris campaign and the Trump campaign. you've got this one traditional. well-funded well oiled machine and this.

other one that looks very. non-traditional and and it's such a such. an incredibly close race and as you said. like we're not going to really know much. about what worked and what didn't work. until after the election it just keeps. reminding me of that great quote from. the screenwriter William Goldman nobody. knows anything and he's talking about. the movie business and he's saying. nobody really knows what's going to work. how to pick a hit but I keep thinking. about that quote on this campaign like. does anybody actually know what will win. this election. I I mean the short answer is.

no I mean you talk to anyone on either. side and they will tell you the data. indicate this is as close a presidential. election as they've ever seen a true. jump ball election and it's going to be. decided if the data is correct maybe. we're see we'll have another polling. error like we have the last two times. Trump's been on the ballot but if the. data are correct you know you're going. to have again these states decided by. potentially tens of thousands of votes. and when that's the case any Factor you.

could pick out any Factor as. decisive when you're talking about these. kind of tiny W of thin margins you know. anything could could end up being the. decisive. [Music]. Factor Jonathan thank you very much. thanks for having me. [Music].

we'll be right. [Music]. back here's what else you need to know. today with only days left before the. election both candidates made their. final push with voters over the weekend. kamla Harris traveled to Houston for a. rally on Friday then went to camaz. Michigan on Saturday and finally to. Philadelphia on Sunday where she spent.

her time politicking throughout the city. including visits to a church a barber. shop a bookstore and a restaurant before. taking the stage at a rally and we must. not wake up the day after the election. and have any regrets about what we could. have done in these next nine days and. giving a speech aimed at mobilizing. supporters in this final stretch so. let's spend these next nine days knowing. we did everything we could for his part. Donald Trump also traveled to Michigan.

and Pennsylvania for campaign events. over the weekend but spent Sunday night. in his hometown New York City where he. hosted a rally at Madison Square Garden. and I just want to say a very big hello. to a special place New York and to an. incredible Arena Madison Square Garden. incredible what was meant as a closing. argument for Trump that featured TV. personalities entertainers and other. notable voices from the right devolved. into a carnival of grievances misogyny.

and racism several of the speakers made. crude and inflammatory remarks about. Puerto Ricans Palestinians Jews. Hispanics and even a black man in the. audience Trump himself referenced. remarks he's made recently about how the. greatest threat America faces is quote. the enemy from. within the rally was a Capstone for an. increasingly grieved campaign for Donald. Trump whose rhetoric has grown darker. and more menacing. [Music].

and Israel launched a retaliatory strike. on Iran early Saturday about 3 weeks. after Iran fired waves of ballistic. missiles at Israel the latest strikes. marked a new escalation between the two. arch trials although they appeared. designed to stop short of allout War. Israel avoided striking nuclear sites. that the Biden administration had warned. against hitting and instead targeted. military facilities Saturday also marked. the first time that Israel has. acknowledged conducting a military. operation inside.

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[Music]. wonderly that's it for the daily I'm. Rachel Abrams see you tomorrow. [Music].