Donald Trump's ground game in Arizona and Nevada may be undercut by canvassers working for America Pac using GPS spoofing to pretend they have knocked on doors when they haven't, according to multiple people familiar with the practice and a leaked how-to-fake-location video. The ramifications for Trump may be far reaching, given America Pac has taken on the bulk of the Trump campaign's ground game in the battleground states, and the election increasingly appears set to be decided by turnout. A bootleg how-to-spoof video, made by an America Pac canvasser in Nevada and obtained by the Guardian, shows the apparent ease with which locations can be changed to fake door-knocks, calling into question how many Trump voters have actually been reached by the field operation.
It remains unclear how often Blitz's auditors are reviewing the roughly 400-450 canvassers. If audits are done every few days " a person familiar with the matter said it was at least every five days " and canvassers are together frauding several hundred doors a day, that could quickly add up.
The problem of suspicious doors in the America Pac field operation underscores the risk of outsourcing a ground-game program, where paid canvassers are typically not as invested in their candidate's victory compared with traditional volunteers or campaign staff.
Musk has so far donated $75m to America Pac in the three months of its existence. Roughly $30m has been spent on the ground-game operation to drive the Trump vote, with the rest put towards digital and mail advertising for the former president, as well as for down-ballot Republican candidates.
Trump outsourced door-knocking campaigns in two key states to Musk-backed PAC. Up to 25 percent may have never happened
www.independent.co.uk
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