Progressive groups prepare to tear Trump to shreds

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Progressive groups prepare to tear Trump to shreds

by Jacqueline Alemany at CBS

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/progressive-groups-prepare-to-tear-donald-trump-to-shreds/

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"When it comes to the ground game, the official campaign's field program will ultimately matter most because organizing has to be coordinated with the rest of the campaign and integrated with the overall data analytics model, digital strategies, message, paid media -- these things cannot happen in a silo," Jeremy Bird, the founding partner of 270 Strategies and the field director of Obama for America in 2012, told CBS News.

"But outside groups can play a critical role in determining the outcome of an election by helping to drive a narrative that contrasts two candidates experience, leadership, and competing visions for the nation and by turning out voters on issues that matter to them."

If there is one thing that Trump is very good at, it's stirring the collective ire of nearly every faction of the progressive movement, including some which Clinton herself has had trouble inspiring. While these groups advocate for varied policies, they all are extremely opposed to the businessman.

"We will be more active in this presidential election than in our entire 124-year history," Mike Brune, the executive director of the Sierra Club, an environmentalist group, told CBS News.


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1. I keep hearing about Trump has no ground game. Can you explain why I haven't seen one Clinton

yard sign or bumper sticker and I have seen dozens of Trump hats, bumper stickers and yard signs? Trump
was here in the Ohio valley today for a fund raiser sponsored by coal mine owner Bob Murray.