Door Walking Promo

No speeches, no air conditioning

The Brandlin for Nevada canvassing promo — walking Las Vegas door to door, in the heat, without a script.

Canvassing in Clark County between May and September is genuinely unpleasant work, and that is most of the point of the clip. A campaign that knocks doors in summer is making a claim about effort that a mailer cannot make. There is also no way to fake the footage: either people open doors or they do not.

Door-to-door remains the most reliable form of voter contact in a district race, where turnout is low enough that a few hundred conversations move the result. It is the least scalable thing a campaign does and usually the most decisive.

More from the field: canvassing with Remy, knocking for the full slate, and walking with Team Lombardo.

Join a walk at the volunteer page. More at the grassroots campaign series.