Lincoln Dinner

By Phil Orenstein

When we have illegal migrants sleeping in luxury hotel rooms, and American veterans on the streets, when we are paying around $3 for what was $1 on the Dollar Value Menu four years ago at McDonalds (200% increase), when we are seeing boys in girls sports and locker rooms, it’s time to get busy and vote every Democrat out! Don’t Complain.  Rather, we must fight! Pray, vote early, speak up, knock on doors up until Election Day, “Chase the Vote,” and that’s the way we fight for victory!

Every Sunday, club members and Republican friends have been involved in Days of Action for our Republican candidates in various parts of Queens, and weekdays we are knocking on doors of all voters in our own neighborhood. The message we share with all voters is loud and clear: “Vote Trump for president, vote up and down the Republican ballot line, and vote NO on ballot proposal 1 and all the rest!” Of course, first we make some friendly conversation, introduce ourselves, and say that it’s a pleasure to meet you! Then we hand them a copy of our publication, the Queens County Beacon newspaper, and candidates’ literature, and talk about Prop 1, and ask for their vote for Trump and Republicans.

Much to our delight, we have been enjoying some very positive responses, even from Democrats, many of whom are switching to vote Republican for the first time, or having second thoughts about voting for Kamala and Democrats. Our enthusiasm is contagious. The tide is turning even in “deep blue” New York as we see more and more Catholics voting their conscience for Trump and pro-life Republicans, Blacks and Hispanics who are fed up with the lies and broken promises of the Democrats, and Jewish voters who are waking up to the fact that Trump is the best friend Israel and the Jewish people ever had.

At every rally in NYC, and at the historic rally at Madison Square Garden this past Sunday, President Trump has again mentioned that we are going to win New York! It’s a misnomer that New York is “deep blue.”  Outside of NYC, and a few blue cities, most of upstate and the rest of the state is solid red. By our calculations, we need to pull over 40% of the vote in Queens in order to win statewide. President Trump and conservative pundits are urging us to vote early, to bank your vote and then get your friends, neighbors and co-workers to vote.

The message to our QVRC club members and pro-Republican friends and neighbors, is to get out and vote early! Lara Trump and the RNC launched “Bank Your Vote” to encourage, educate, and activate Republican voters on when, where, and how to lock in their votes as early as possible, through in-person early voting, absentee voting, and legal ballot harvesting.

President Trump is on track to win the election based on early voting numbers throughout the country, according to veteran journalist Mark Halperin. In swing states, Republican activists are ballot harvesting and it’s working! At a recent Trump rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, sponsored by Turning Point Action, where the speakers, TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, Vivek Ramaswamy and Tulsi Gabbard urged everyone to get out and vote early, and bring others, TPA asked voters to bring their ballots to the rally and volunteers collected 1000’s of mail-in ballots on site. It looks very hopeful for Nevada, a swing state that is critical to winning the election, with early voting numbers helping to make it “too big to rig.” 

Since last year Sean Hannity has been urging Republican voters to “step up and play the Democrats’ game in the 2024 election or risk making a ‘big mistake.’” Mark Levin said he’s voting early and told his listeners: “You need to vote early. Almost every state has early voting right now. Bank your vote. Get family members to vote, colleagues, co-workers … there is an army of tens of millions of us. If we vote early and help get the others to vote, we will win, and democracy will win.”

To win the early voting game, Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point Action has launched the largest ballot-chasing operation in 2024 to win in battleground states. Ballot chasing is TPAction’s newly organized operation deploying 1000’s of trained volunteers to contact voters who have already received mail-in ballots to encourage them to mark their ballots and make a plan to vote. Charlie Kirk said, “EVERYDAY is ELECTION DAY!” He appealed to conservative Americans to join the 1000’s of TPAction organizers who will be “CHASING BALLOTS and CHASING THE VOTE every single day in key battleground states like ARIZONA and WISCONSIN, working nonstop to secure a BIG WIN.”

We can use it in New York as well. Here’s how you can utilize TPAction’s simple “Chase the Vote” strategy in the neighborhood where you live, in the remaining days until Election Day, to help win New York. First, get out your cell phone and download the mobile app. You’ll find the free blue TPAction app in your App Store or Google Play.  Open the app, create an account, and sign up. Click the three little arrows at the top to go to the 2nd screen, and that’s where you can choose to “Help Knock Doors” or “Make Calls” or “Send Texts” to your Republican neighbors.  Project Civica has a helpful video on downloading and using the TPAction app to help Get Out the Vote in your neighborhood. Go to the website Projectcivica.org to view the video.

President Trump, in his momentous speech at the MSG rally, said that hard working patriots will save our country on Election Day. He said that November 5th will be the most important day in history. “Together we will fight, fight, fight, and we will win, win, win!” We’re going to save America. New York is MAGA country too!