Campaign Sidekick

Campaign Sidekick is a mobile app designed for the canvassing aspect of political campaigns. Its cumbersome rigidity, and general inability to be modified to fit circumstance such as slow Internet,[1][2] has been critiqued by members of Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign's ground game, particularly in their GOTV efforts for so-called low-propensity voters in the vital swing state of Pennsylvania.[3] Turning Point Action has chosen to use their own app in Arizona, Wisconsin, parts of Michigan given that everything has to entered manually in off-line 'walk books" in Campaign Sidekick. In February 2020 is was revealed that the internal app code was publicly accessible on their website.[4]

The firm is based in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, and works with the GOP in general and in particular directly with Republican campaigns.[5] In the vast majority of deployments there have been no issues.

  1. ^ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/we-re-crashing-trump-s-rural-voter-push-hits-a-roadblock-with-lagging-internet/ar-AA1seyZd
  2. ^ "Drew Ryun on Offline Walklists". Retrieved 2024-10-14 – via vimeo.com.
  3. ^ Lowell, Hugo (2024-10-14). "Trump ground game undercut by slow internet that crashes app". The Guardian. Retrieved 2024-10-14.
  4. ^ Whittaker, Zack (2020-03-30). "Security lapse exposed Republican voter firm's internal code". Retrieved 2024-10-14.
  5. ^ "Campaign Sidekick LLC". InfluenceWatch. Retrieved 2024-10-14.