Chairwoman McDaniel: We’ve Added 300,000 New Volunteers Since We Went Virtual



Chairwoman McDaniel: We’ve Added 300,000 New Volunteers Since We Went Virtual

FRANCIS: You guys were so great at all of those rallies where you got people, and that was a way to engage people as well. How do you make up for what has got to be a drop-off in money, as we’ve seen money evaporate from around the globe? And also not being able to not have the President out there?



CHAIRWOMAN MCDANIEL: There is no question at major events where we would have the President or First Lady and the Vice President out campaigning and have these roundtables and these major events. Those all stopped for understandable reasons. The President is not interested in doing that right now. He is interested in governing and leading our country through this crisis. On the small dollar front though, through our digital and mail platforms, we've actually seen an increase in fundraising, which I know is surprising to many individuals. It’s part of the smart investment we made early on in expanding our email lists and our SMS, which is really in the weeds, but it has helped us maintain that fundraising. And we’re going to have a strong April fundraising number as well. And from a campaign standpoint, we added 300,000 new volunteers since we went virtual during these stay-at-home orders. So we have seen a ramp up, actually, of interest in this election, and I think that is because of the early investment the RNC and Trump campaign made to be in 23 states, to already have 800 staff on the ground, and also in the digital fund-raising investment that we made.



GOP

Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel

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