NEW: A super PAC run aimed at targeting rural Democrats criticized the party's three major campaign arms as lacking investment in what they said was a key voting bloc, according to a memo obtained exclusively by @thisisinsider ($) by @adamwren businessinsider.com/democrats-rura…
"Currently, the DSCC doesn't have a rural desk, the DCCC is focused on 'winnable' races (almost entirely urban/suburban districts), and the DNC isn't prioritizing on-the-ground year-round organizing," J.D. Scholten of the super PAC RuralVote.org wrote in the memo.
"Nationwide, rural voters make up about 20% of the vote. Do Democrats spend at least 20% of their funding on their vote? With the rural skew of the Electoral College, the Senate and the Supreme Court, the Democrats need to start investing in rural voter outreach," Scholten added.
In the memo, Scholten called for "year-round on-the-ground organizing to help with party infrastructure and candidate recruitment," as well as a nationwide rural-voter-outreach plan and rural messengers. He also said Democrats should funnel money to "high visibility campaigns."
The memo comes as the DNC is investing more money than ever in historically red states, and has made some of its earliest midterm investments in history: a $14.6 million commitment—$12,500 to every state, every month—a 25% increase over 2020, according to a spokesman.
That's in addition to a seven-figure DNC investment in historically red states, $200,000 of which has already gone out the door.
The DNC has also already made organizing investments in 8 states, per a DNC official, including hiring leadership & adding "significant distributed organizing capacity, which is earlier than any midterm cycle in history & earlier than we had teams in states during presidential."
"While the DNC alone cannot fully fund every individual need, we have been fully upholding our unprecedented commitments to our state party partners," a DNC official familiar with the investment told Insider.

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