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“Any candidate needs to be where their voters are. As far as digital campaigning is concerned, Facebook is the largest gathering in the country,” Republican digital campaign strategist Eric Wilson, who leads the Center for Campaign Innovation, told Recode.
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“I think you’re seeing campaigns respond to the realities of the market, where people aren’t eager to start donating to a presidential campaign that’s over a year away,” said Eric Wilson, a GOP consultant who led Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) digital team in 2016.
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“That’s still the unifying platform,” said Eric Wilson, who directs the Center. “As we found in 2020, the majority of voters as well as donors are active on Facebook.”
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“Campaigns are even asking undecided and swing voters for money,” said Eric Wilson, a Republican digital strategist and the center’s director. “They’re asking people who donate to the other party for money.”
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“Obviously it’s good to have more options,” Republican digital strategist Eric Wilson said.
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“It’s sort of not sufficient for some candidates to state their party affiliation—they have to go further and say either ‘Trump endorsed’ or ‘conservative Republican’ to really drive the case to their supporters.”