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Knocking on Doors, Taking Back the House has Begun! We ask Voters about DOGE & Fed Cuts [1]
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Date: 2025-03-04
On Saturday, March 1st, Hope Springs from Field PAC [dated website] volunteers started knocking on doors again in six states (Arizona, Florida (specifically, special congressional election), Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina and Texas). Remarkably, after a fairly harsh winter, it was like the weather gods shined down on us.
You take what you can get.
Hope Springs’ volunteers were ready. We’ve had people knocking on doors in Florida (FL-06) in February for that special election in April, but Saturday marked our official kick off. In the first week of canvassing last year, 335 volunteers showed up to knock on 24,217 doors. But Saturday, 509 volunteers came out to knock on 35,546 doors of Democrats and (mostly) unaffiliated voters.
This diary focuses on Arizona, one of the states where we are canvassing in 3 congressional districts where we think we can beat a MAGA Republican incumbent to take back the House. That is our first and primary goal this year, returning Congress to sanity and Democrats to the majority there.
Volunteers in Arizona expressed disappointment with last year’s election results — and several wondered if there wasn’t some kind of underground MAGA organizing last year. Republicans were able to mobilize new and infrequent voters; their voter registration efforts yielded some impressive results. In AZ-06 (once held by a Democrat), new Republican voters alone accounted for more than the ~11k margin between Juan Ciscomani and the Democrat. The 6th CD was the closest margin in Arizona for a U.S. House race, which was not called for a week.
We are also knocking on doors again in AZ-01, where incumbent Republican David Schweikert is perennially vulnerable. This district is highly dependent on population-growth. Last year. Hope Springs volunteers found that the Democrat was not well known among the voters we canvassed. Arizona primaries are late in the cycle, and this hurts non-incumbents. But, to be honest, the Phoenix area saw a lot of extreme heat interruptions to our canvassing schedule late in the Summer and we may have missed some movement here.
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