Organized Disruption: Trump’s 2024 Election Strategy
Trump’s organized plan to disrupt the 2024 election
Most election campaigns organize “get out the vote” efforts to generate support on Election Day. For the 2024 election, however, the Trump campaign has largely refrained from these efforts (although Elon Musk has offered $1 million per day). Instead, the Trump campaign has orchestrated an elaborate effort to “get out the election monitors.”
In 2020, Trump made baseless claims about the election results with no clear plan or strategy. As the Department of Justice has noted in their recent January 6th motion, Trump’s arguments were never consistent. The number of alleged fraudulent votes swung from a few thousand to hundreds of thousands and back again. Mudslinging falsely targeted Dominion voting machines, voting drop boxes, and even election workers, two of whom in Georgia were recently awarded Rudy Giuliani’s Manhattan apartment, watch collection, and more in damages after a court ruled he defamed them in 2020.
By almost all accounts, Trump learned from the chaos of 2020. After reviewing the 2024 Trump campaign efforts to organize election monitors, coordinate a network of groups to scrutinize voter registrations at an industrial scale, and direct teams of lawyers to use differing intrastate rules for contested ballots…
