{"id":65355,"date":"2026-02-04T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/democrats-launch-aggressive-campaign-to-win-back-infrequent-voters\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T08:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:00:24","slug":"democrats-launch-aggressive-campaign-to-win-back-infrequent-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/democrats-launch-aggressive-campaign-to-win-back-infrequent-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats launch aggressive campaign to win back infrequent voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DNC\u2019s Local Listeners initiative will target one million \u2018infrequent\u2019 voters in battleground districts<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are launching an aggressive campaign to win back voters they lost, not to Donald Trump, but to the proverbial \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/google.com\/search?q=democrats+lost+voters+to+the+couch&amp;oq=democrats+lost+voters+to+the+couch&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORigATIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRirAjIHCAMQIRirAjIHCAQQIRifBTIHCAUQIRifBdIBCDM1OTNqMGo3qAIAsAIA&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\">couch<\/a>,\u201d as they look to regain support ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) rolled out a new initiative called Local Listeners with the goal of targeting over one million \u201cinfrequent\u201d voters in key battleground districts. Seeking to build on the party\u2019s string of off-year election victories, which extended into 2026 with an upset in Texas last weekend, the DNC is betting that early, localized outreach will be crucial in winning back these voters\u2019 trust \u2013 and their ballots \u2013 this time around.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/04\/democrats-local-listeners-initiative-elections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNC\u2019s Local Listeners initiative will target one million \u2018infrequent\u2019 voters in battleground districts Democrats are launching an aggressive campaign to win back voters they lost, not to Donald Trump, but to the proverbial \u201ccouch,\u201d as they look to regain support ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. On Wednesday, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) rolled out &#8230; <a title=\"Democrats launch aggressive campaign to win back infrequent voters\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/democrats-launch-aggressive-campaign-to-win-back-infrequent-voters\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democrats launch aggressive campaign to win back infrequent voters\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}