On MSNBC’s Daily Rundown this morning DCCC Chairman Steve Israel discussed the challenging but tight environment heading into Election Day, and how because our aggressive preparations, including an unprecedented ground game, at least 20 races could go either way in the next 24 hours. This is in contrast to 2010 when many Democratic incumbents were down and out long before election day.
Chairman Israel: “Here’s what I’m seeing in daily polls: unlike 2010, we have a very turbulent environment, but there are still 20 districts that could go either way in the next 24 hours—20 districts. So anybody who tells you that they know what’s going to happen tomorrow night is literally the last person you should be listening to. You still have 20 very close races.”
Chairman Israel continued, discussing Democratic efforts to remind voters of House Republicans’ out-of-touch priorities: “There’s no question that many voters have forgotten about the Republican shutdown—our job is to remind them. Here’s how we’re doing it, Craig: we’ve got 900 paid field staff across the country—the most unprecedented field campaign to remind voters. We’ve made 30 million voter contacts—2 million voter contacts this past weekend alone. We’ve registered 80,000 new voters in our battleground districts. So we’re going to continue to take the argument on who’s got your back to those voters, voter by voter, house by house, precinct by precinct.”