Ready for Hillary, the grassroots organizing group laying the groundwork for a Clinton 2016 campaign, is sending staff to help on-the-ground efforts in almost every key Senate race this fall.
The group is sending political staff to 14 states, communications director Seth Bringman told reporters in an email: Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
The staff will arrive around Oct. 1, Bringman said, and stay through Election Day.
“This staff deployment is part of Ready for Hillary’s continued commitment to channeling the enthusiasm for a potential Hillary campaign into helping Democrats on the ballot this year,” Bringman said in the email.
The group is also starting to directly fundraise for Democratic Senate candidates. It sent out of a fundraising email on behalf of Iowa candidate Bruce Braley, for whom Hillary stumped on Sunday. Bringman said in an email that it was “the first of likely several such fundraising efforts for Democratic candidates in critical races this year.”
Ready for Hillary has said since its early days that it would work to help Democrats on the ballot in 2014 while also pursuing its main goal of building enthusiasm for a Clinton 2016 presidential campaign.
