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The majority of the electorate in this election have already made up their minds. President Trump has a core set of voters who will vote for him no matter what. Kamala Harris has the same thing on her side. The real fight in this election is for that slim share of voters in the middle – the undecideds – who have yet to make up their minds about who they’re going to vote for in not only the presidential race, but up and down the ballot. 

So, how do we win those voters to our side?

Elections are fundamentally about persuasion. Elections are not about screaming and yelling in our own bubble, to people who already agree with us. That wins us no new voters. We must go outside our bubble and into moderate or even liberal environments and speak to people who might otherwise not hear from us. 

That was my message for activists in Montgomery County, Texas, one of the most conservative areas of the entire country. I had a mission for our Republican activists: go out and persuade the independent and undecided voters to join us. And if you live in a deep red county like Montgomery, where a GOP victory is assured, you can volunteer in a blue county like Harris County. There is always more you can do – donate, volunteer, hand out campaign literature, walk blocks, anything. 

And the message to swing voters is simple: by every metric, you were better off under four years of President Trump than you were under Biden-Harris and America is better under conservative leadership at every single level of our government.

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A constant refrain from Democrats is that it is the Republican party that has strayed from its original positions to more extreme policy stances. But is that actually true?

I debunked that myth on Bill Maher’s show with a simple experiment. Which party platform do you think the below quotes came from on the issues of immigration and the role of government?

On immigration: “We must remain a nation of laws. We cannot tolerate illegal immigration and we must stop it. For years, Washington talked tough but failed to act. Our borders might as well not have existed. Illegal immigration was rampant. Criminal immigrants, deported after committing crimes in America, returned the very next day to commit crimes again.”

On the role of government: “This is what our party stands for – the end of the era of big government. We need a smaller, more effective, more efficient, less bureaucratic government that reflects our time-honored values. The American people do not want big government solutions and they do not want empty promises.They want a government that gives a moderate, achievable, common-sense agenda that will improve people’s daily lives and not increase the size of government.”

That is actually from Bill Clinton’s party platform in 1996. You can read the full Democrat platform here.

Can you imagine any Democrat saying that in 2024? Of course not, because the party has strayed so far from those commonsense positions. They now believe that illegal immigration must be encouraged out of a misplaced sense of compassion, with Kamala Harris promising not to put illegal immigrants in jail and rather give illegal immigrants free health care. Democrats now believe that there are no limits to the size and role of government in our lives, which is why they constantly seek to expand the influence of the federal government. 

Meanwhile, you cannot find much daylight between Republican platforms of the past and Donald Trump’s platform today. Why? Because conservatives operate within a governing framework that is largely unchangeable. The shifts in our party’s policy positions are around the edges and minimal compared to the wholesale rewrite of the Democrat Party platform we’ve witnessed over the past decades. 

When your liberal friends try to tell you that Republicans have shifted to more extreme positions, show them this video.