Now the two sides are going head-to-head to get voters out of battleground states:

Kathy Moran never thought she’d be standing on the street at sunset, slinging political signs over her shoulder, going door to door convincing people to vote.

But on a cold night in late October, Moran, a 64-year-old retired labor lawyer, said he couldn’t sit on the sidelines any longer.

“With the overturning of Roe v. Wade, which I couldn’t have imagined, I had to get involved,” he said as he wandered the streets of Cross Plains, a village of about 4,000 people on the outskirts of Wisconsin’s liberal capital. Madison

Democrats hope it’s volunteers like Moran who will make a difference in swing states like Wisconsin, where four of the last six presidential elections have been decided by 21,000 votes or fewer.

The Democrats’ approach to getting votes is clear: They are expanding across the country, drawing on a vast network of activists, volunteers, Democratic Party supporters and others to get their voters to the polls.

What America PAC does for Trump is less clear.

America PAC targets infrequent voters in Wisconsin by canvassing precincts, sending mailers and sending digital and text ads, said Andrew Romeo, a spokesman for the organization.

But America PAC declined a request from The Associated Press to observe the study in person.

Republicans have privately expressed concern about whether America PAC is doing enough to win votes for Trump in key battleground states. Regardless of their methods, more Republicans are voting early than in past elections, another sign of high enthusiasm.

“A get-out-the-vote operation can’t turn a jump ball into a landslide,” Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Ben Wikler said, “but it could certainly turn a 50-50 race into a 49.5-50.5 race.”

Moran said he makes between 8,000 and 14,000 steps on a typical poll night, encountering mostly Harris voters as he knocks on doors of homes adorned with skeletons, grave markers and a few political signs.

A woman refuses to meet Moran, saying from behind a closed glass door that it’s “none of her business.” Another man says he already voted but didn’t tell who.

Another notices her “Harris/Walz” and “, la” buttons, smiles and says, “I see you’re with Harris.” he says. He reassures everyone in his house that they will vote for him.

Moran is entering notes into an app to ensure Harris-affiliated voters won’t be harassed again.

The Harris campaign has more than 40,000 volunteers, as well as 220 staff members working in 32 field offices across the state. The campaign says its volunteers and staff have knocked on more than a million doors and made two million phone calls, including more than 100,000 last weekend alone.

“The field game is very, very intense,” said State Sen. Freddie Powell Sims, a Dawson Democrat. “We knock on doors every day, but the communities are huge. “There’s a long way to go, but we have incredibly hard-working volunteers who are participating in this race and giving it their all.”

Sims said he isn’t sure who will win Georgia because he sees similar enthusiasm from Republicans on the ground.

The Trump campaign says it has nearly 25,000 volunteers working in Georgia and hosted more than 2,000 events there in the past three months.

At one event, eight women wearing matching pink Trump jackets with ’47’ on the sleeves and personalized engravings of their names marched to a sprawling farm south of Atlanta as part of Team Trump’s Women’s Tour.

The audience in South Fulton was small, but RNC co-chair Lara Trump and former U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler urged supporters to rally their friends to vote for Trump.

Kim Burnette phone banked the Trump campaign this year and infrequently called registered Republican voters.

“A lot of people say they’re going to vote,” Burnette said. “Looks good.”

Candace Duvall drove about 30 miles to the event and was decked out in gold Trump merchandise; She spread sparkly letters with her name on her T-shirt and wore earrings that displayed her mugshot. She went to the polls to vote for Trump on the first day of early voting, but she’s still receiving a flood of messages, calls and paper flyers about his campaign.

“He’s our only chance,” Duvall said. “I really think he was chosen by God, and I think it was good versus evil.”

Camilla Moore and Lisa Babbage, president and vice president of the Georgia Black Republican Council, also took to the stage to support the women on Trump’s behalf.

The duo has been mobilizing Black voters in South Fulton through events over the past few months.

“This time it was easier than ever,” Moore said.

Moore said people are less hesitant to support Trump now than they were in 2020. They are more open to speaking out when defending the former president’s case.

Charles Benson, 68, of Kinston, North Carolina, said he is contacted several times a week, mostly via text, about the election and voting.

Benson, who is retired, attended Trump’s rally in nearby Greenville in late October, two days after voting early in person. Still, prospective mailers continue to fill his mailbox.

“I’m ready to be done,” Benson said. “I’m tired of getting this stuff in the mail every day.”

Emma Macomber, 76, of New Bern, another Trump supporter at the Greenville rally, said she was contacted regularly, mostly by text, asking for political donations and making sure she voted.

Macomber said he had already cast his ballot and made some contributions.

“I want it to end, but I’m afraid it won’t end,” he said. “Because I don’t know what will happen in the future, and I think everyone is afraid of the unknown.”

Kramon reported from Atlanta, Robertson from Raleigh, North Carolina, and Mascaro from Washington.