An outside group supporting Democrats plans to spend over $10 million targeting rural voters and communities in down-ballot races that the party has neglected for years, Axios has learned.
Democrats are desperate to infiltrate GOP-friendly territory.
Although they hope the presidential election will help drive turnout down-ballot, the party has significant ground to make up.
- Roughly 100,000 elections go uncontested every year while grassroots organizers and rural Democratic county parties struggle to survive, according to Movement Labs.
Republicans in hyperlocal races — think school boards and city councils — across six states are the focus for Contest Every Race, a campaign run by Movement Labs.
- In 2022, the group gave $150,000 to rural Democratic county parties and organizations in 75 counties to help recruit candidates for elections below state legislature.
- Movement Labs is now fundraising for a $10 million Contest Every Race campaign, part of which will be allocated through $2,000 grants to hundreds of local entities in Wisconsin, Kansas, Virginia, Michigan, Montana and Arizona.
- The campaign has already received grant applications from over 350 rural county groups, according to executive director Salim Shariff.
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