As the midterms approach, both parties are gearing up to target more than just voters.
Republican National Committee Chair Joe Gruters boasted of the party’s poll worker recruitment efforts in an interview with Fox News Digital.
“We have more poll workers in the 2026 cycle than we did in the 2024 cycle. We’re better prepared. We have staffers in 25 states. We are on the ground, ready to do battle,” he said.
Both parties have been shoring up their poll worker organization ahead of the elections. President Donald Trump has long maintained that the people counting the ballots are just as important as those casting them and it appears that leadership on both sides agrees with him. Republicans and Democrats are dedicating time and resources to organizing not only poll workers, but lawyers, observers and protection staff as well.
“The RNC, in data shared exclusively with Fox News Digital, is 42% ahead of its 2024 pace, with 16,971 volunteer signups nationwide compared with 11,917 at the same point in the past presidential cycle,” Fox News reported.
The RNC has shattered our 2024 poll worker recruitment benchmarks, built the largest election integrity operation in Republican Party history, and mobilized thousands of volunteers to help secure the ballot box,” Gruters said in a statement. “With less than 90 days until the midterms, we’re seeing record-breaking grassroots engagement, expanding our operation into new states, and building the infrastructure needed to defy history in 2026.”
Republicans have worked hard to meet the president’s election integrity expectations.
“We’re going to have to be a lot sharper the next time when it comes to counting the vote. There’s a famous statement: ‘Sometimes the vote counter is more important than the candidate.’ And we can’t let that ever, ever happen again. They have to get a lot tougher and smarter,” Trump said in 2022.
On the other side of the political aisle, Democrats are also gathering the resources needed to “invest in our voter protection infrastructure.”
“The Democratic National Committee continues to invest in our voter protection infrastructure to defend Americans’ sacred right to vote. The Democratic Party currently has voter protection staff in more than 30 states, and we will recruit, train, and deploy tens of thousands of observers across the country this November,” a DNC spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “We have seen a surge of citizens who have joined our training programs and stepped up to defend our democracy. We will continue our work to ensure all eligible voters have their voices heard.”
“The DNC did not share its 2026 numbers with Fox News Digital, but did share 2021 to 2024 data showing Democrats mobilized more than 120,000 voter protection volunteers, including over 65,000 trained poll observers, and recorded more than 465,000 confirmed hours of poll observation across over 63,000 polling locations,” Fox noted.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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