“Republicans for Harris” is Astroturf Organized by the Harris Campaign

by
Steve MacDonald

We shared a story two days ago about a report on local Government propaganda Television (ABC 9 WMUR) that something called Republicans for Harris was sweeping the nation, and New Hampshire was going to start a chapter all their own. Translated, we’re not Republicans. We say we are; anyone can register for any party (long-time ‘Grok contributor Ed Naile was a registered Democrat). But you can’t be a Republican for Harris, and (no surprise here) the group wasn’t even started by a Republican.

[I]n secretly recorded audio obtained by the Maine Wire from a citizen journalist, Peter Mills revealed that the entire group is astroturf organized by Amy Cookson, a campaign staffer for Vice President Harris’s campaign.

In the recorded audio, Mills, who is the brother of Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and is himself a registered Democrat, explains to a man posing as ‘Tim Dillon’ — an aspiring member of the astroturf group — that it’s being run by Cookson.

The man was asked to contact Cookson, who has previously worked for Planned Parenthood and some elected Democrats, at an email account ending @kamalaharris.com.

“I think she’s a paid worker,” said Mills. “I think that’s her job here is to find– she’s looking– she has an organization called Republicans for Harris.”

“She’d be the main representative of that group,” he said. “I think it’s a national structure that’s being organized by, obviously, by the Harris campaign.”

Republicans for Harris, like Harris and her VP, are fakes. It is a fraud—a scam.

In an email sent around Thursday, Cookson bragged about the success of the “Republicans for Harris” ploy in getting local media coverage — an email chain that included a list of coverage from dozens of other states for similar efforts.

The email suggests that the Harris campaign centrally orchestrated a series of press releases to make it appears as though a groundswell of prominent Republicans had announced support for Harris.

There is no groundswell of Republican support for the Democrat Socialist, but that doesn’t mean we won’t see some Republicans line up to sign on. The odds are slim, and those who do will likely be Astroturfs themselves or Democrats or independents who are actually Democrats. Still, we should pay attention to them nonetheless (the media will). And maybe the Democrats for Trump could get a better name. Walk Away is nice, but it sounds like you’re giving up, and we know that’s not what you meant.

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  • Steve MacDonald

    Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, blogger, and a member of the Board of directors of The 603 Alliance. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor of GraniteGrok.com, a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, and a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

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