SC's Jaime Harrison throwing new PAC weight behind Democrats. First stop, Georgia

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By Joseph Bustos
November 24, 2020 07:00 AM, Updated 2 minutes ago

COLUMBIA, S.C.

Proving he can fundraise beyond his own run, South Carolina’s Jaime Harrison is launching a new political action committee that will raise money for Democratic efforts following his Senate campaign that raised more than $130 million.

The first spending phase of Harrison’s The Dirt Road PAC will start in Georgia, a state that went blue this year by voting for Democratic President-elect Joe Biden and where two U.S. Senate races could give Democrats leverage in both Capitol chambers.

Harrison named his group, the Dirt Road PAC, after a story he told while on the campaign trail where he knocked on the door of a Black man who lived on a dirt road that had not been paved.

In Georgia, Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are seeking to unseat Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in Georgia’s Jan. 5 U.S. Senate runoffs. Should they win the Senate would be split 50-50, handing over the tie-breaking vote to Vice-President elect Kamala Harris. Before the PAC, Harrison had already raised $450,000 for Ossoff’s and Warnock’s campaigns.

https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/election/article247368059.html

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1. Jaime Harrison Has a Great Ad for this PAC

Tells the sorts of conversations Dems need to have with voters in rural areas.

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2. Ooo... thanks for that video clip!!

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3. Thanks!

Loved the clip.

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4. Here is as link to the site & WaPo article

https://jaimeharrison.com/

After senate run, Harrison launching PAC to boost Democrats

By Meg Kinnard?|?AP
November 24, 2020 at 7:03 a.m. EST
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — On the heels of his record-breaking but unsuccessful bid to oust U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina’s Jaime Harrison on Tuesday launched a political action committee, utilizing his newly minted status as a fundraising powerhouse to try to provide a sustained boost to other Democrats that he hopes can help flip more areas from red to blue.

Dirt Road PAC will focus on long term investments in state-level Democratic candidates and parties like intensive voter registration efforts in areas that have been seen by Democrats as harder to win, Harrison told The Associated Press ahead of the official launch.

“The days of just swooping in every few years and putting up a candidate, having no grassroots infrastructure and thinking that we’re going to win - that’s just not working,” Harrison told the AP on Monday. “I’m going to focus on investing and doing it in a much deeper manner, and going into areas where people have just been forgotten, or been given up on.”

First up, Harrison said, is fundraising for Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, Georgia Democrats running in the pair of U.S. Senate runoffs that could shift the balance of the chamber, and for whom he has already directly raised nearly half a million dollars. After that, Harrison said he will focus on Virginia’s 2021 elections, before turning to the 2022 midterms. “Rome wasn’t built overnight,” Harrison told AP. “You’ve got to have long term and sustainable investment for it to pay dividends.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/after-senate-run-harrison-launching-pac-to-boost-democrats/2020/11/24/11e17dfe-2e4d-11eb-9dd6-2d0179981719_story.html

This is sortof like a version of Dean's "50 state strategy" but narrow-focused to target rural areas that we have largely lost to the loons listening to decades of RW talk radio.

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6. We'll be seeing him for a long time. As they said on Seinfeld, "he has the Kvorka!"

I hope he runs for Senator again.