Trump campaign officials in battleground states accused the Harris campaign of trying to divert attention from the real issues.
The Harris team in seven key swing states likely to determine November's presidential election have been boasting of their increased staffing and ground-game plans.
Trump staffers, though, are not deterred.
"Our message isn't 'look at how many people have signed up to knock doors for us,' " said Victoria LaCivita, Trump's Michigan campaign spokeswoman, The Washington Times reported Wednesday.
"Our message is that we have a plan to fight inflation. We know your grocery bills are too high and this is what we're going to do about it. We know the southern border is a problem and this is what we're going to do about it. They don't want to talk about any of that because they created a mess."
The Trump campaign has gotten help from Turning Point Action, which is hosting rallies and registering voters "in crucial districts." The group also is helping bolster GOP participation in mail-in voting.
"Ballot chasing is our newest approach to contacting voters who have already received mail-in ballots to encourage them to mark their ballots and make a plan to vote," Turning Point Action officials said on their website. "Our initiative will have huge numbers of door knockers to win the ballot game at the mailboxes."
Trump officials also reject claims that the Harris team has built a huge ground-game advantage in the battleground states.
"That is absolutely false," Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said, the Times reported.
Harris and her vice-presidential choice Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are beginning a tour of swing states. The Democratic Party's ticket plans to campaign in coming days in each of the seven most competitive states — Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada, The Washington Post reported.
Harris campaign officials claim they've established far more offices and hired many more staffers than Trump's team in the critical swing states and have enlisted 360,000 new volunteers to canvas for voters and make phone calls.
"This battleground advantage will almost certainly be decisive in a race likely to be decided by just tens of thousands of votes," a Harris campaign staffer told reporters.
Trump officials said his campaign had opened 20 offices in Michigan, with 40 GOP field offices in Wisconsin and 20 in Pennsylvania.
With Harris faring better than Biden in Georgia, the vice president's operating 24 campaign offices in the state.
Trump won Georgia in 2016 but lost by less than 12,000 votes to Biden in 2020.
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