From Wired:
Standing next to her hastily packed suitcase in Michigan’s Macomb County Wednesday night, Tyra Muldrow had a bad feeling in her gut.
“I have this eerie feeling that I need to get the hell up out of there,” says Muldrow, a 20-year-old Black woman from Florida. She was in Michigan as a door knocker, hired by a subcontractor for Elon Musk’s America PAC operation to turn out the vote for Donald Trump in the heavily contested working-class suburbs of Detroit.
Muldrow and the rest of her canvassing group of roughly a dozen people had just been fired en masse, after WIRED reported that they had been tricked and threatened as part of Musk’s get-out-the-vote effort. Speaking publicly for the first time about her ordeal, Muldrow says that the canvassers in her group were fired with little explanation beyond a complaint that someone had spoken with the press. Many, including her, were still owed money. Muldrow had to find her own way home; others are still stranded in Michigan.
It’s encouraging to see such a sharp contrast between the Harris-Walz GOTV effort, in which literally hundreds of thousands of door-knocks are being made daily in the final stretch (in each battleground state, no less), and Trump’s sad attempts at voter outreach, which got farmed out to a racist oligarch, then quickly discarded once their horrible working conditions went public.
Let’s keep going strong — just a couple more days to victory.
#HarrisWalz2024
#WeArentGoingBack