Bernie Sanders Is Getting A Shadow Organizing Campaign In The Midwest

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Our Revolution will work to amplify Bernie Sanders's message in the midwest as he builds the case that he's the best candidate to beat Donald Trump.

Ruby Cramer
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on April 27, 2019, at 9:02 a.m. ET

Excerpt:

This month, Good Jobs Nation officials migrated to Sanders’s own political group, Our Revolution, to help build a shadow organizing campaign in the Midwest as the senator makes the case that he is the best candidate to beat Trump in states like Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

Joseph Geevarghese, who founded Good Jobs Nation in 2007 and has focused the group’s work on low-wage workers, offshoring, and federal contracts, stepped in as Our Revolution’s new executive director this month, bringing with him three colleagues. One of them, Mike Oles, is now serving as Our Revolution’s first national field director — to be based in Indianapolis.

Our Revolution, founded by Sanders as a vehicle for his national movement after ending his first bid for the Democratic nomination, cannot legally coordinate with his presidential campaign. (The group’s president, former Ohio state senator Nina Turner, took a leave of absence from Our Revolution to serve as a co-chair of the Sanders campaign.) The organization, which sought to support progressive candidates in the 2018 election before leading a brief “Draft Bernie” effort ahead of his campaign launch this February, will now seek to amplify Sanders’s message in the Rust Belt, where Geevarghese sees a dearth of Democratic Party infrastructure.

“There's a void,” Geevarghese said in an interview. “Donald Trump stepped into that void and took people who should be with us. Now there’s an opportunity to win them back.”

The Rust Belt strategy, where Oles is already helping set up new Our Revolution chapters in places like South Bend, Indiana, marks the next phase for the organization — and offers yet another signal that the Sanders movement is already looking ahead to the general election.


https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rubycramer/bernie-sanders-our-revolution-midwest-2020

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. A great strategy by a great candidate... Bernie's got this!!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[corbettkroehler]

2. Employ The Presumptive Close

Although I'm a terrible salesman, I remember with perfect clarity a key tenet of success in that field: lead with the presumption of a yes.

Naturally, Bernie needs to keep this quiet and take no votes for granted in the primary. However, deploying his strong network in a manner which could pivot to the general like a cannonball out of the convention is a sound, winning strategy.