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UNITE HERE, union that knocked on doors of 3 million voters, projects victory for Joe Biden in NV, AZ, PA

— UNITE HERE organized the largest union door-to-door canvass operation in the U.S.

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NATIONWIDE — UNITE HERE, the hospitality workers’ union, organized the country’s largest union-door-to-door canvassing operation. Today, the union announced that those efforts in Nevada, Arizona, and Pennsylvania point to a clear path to victory for Joe Biden.
UNITE HERE has been preparing for the 2020 election since 2016, identifying several counties for targeted door-to-door outreach. Among them were cities now critical to the outcome of the current race: Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada; Phoenix, Arizona; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In those key areas, UNITE HERE canvassers got out on the doors first, starting a ground game as early as July in NV & AZ to turn out voters who did not cast ballots in 2016. In Philly, the operation began Oct. 1 and grew dramatically from 50 to 500 canvassers over 5 short weeks.
As part of UNITE HERE’s #TakeBack2020 campaign, 1,700 canvassers — many of them Black & Latinx union members whose jobs and families were hit hard by COVID-19 — knocked on the doors of three million Americans in Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, & Florida to encourage them to vote.
These efforts helped drive the unprecedented turnout of this presidential election and will make the critical difference that wins the presidency for @JoeBiden.
UNITE HERE Int'l President @DTaylorUH:

"I'm incredibly proud of UNITE HERE and our members. It was clear that we needed to take back our country, and even more clear how to do it: through face-to-face conversations and the type of in-person organizing that our union does best."
Quote from @DTaylorUH Continued:

"With #TakeBack2020, we built a program that made a critical difference in Nevada, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, and we thank the other labor unions, progressive allies, and individual donors that worked with us to accomplish that goal.”

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