Midwest
'The left has perfected this': Conservatives take page from Obama's playbook in battleground Wisconsin
WISCONSIN— One conservative group taking Wisconsin by storm is tapping a strategy previously emphasized by former President Barack Obama in order to win the 2024 presidential election for Republicans.
“It’s narrowing down our organizing to the ward and then mobilizing,” Turning Point Action National Enterprise Director Brett Galaszewski told Fox News Digital in an interview.
The group’s ballot-chase program involves “neighbors talking with other neighbors.”
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Turning Point Action has made a large investment in contributing to pro-Republican ground game efforts in Wisconsin. (Reuters)
He explained that there is more value in approaching people as their neighbor or someone they have a relationship with than as a stranger who may not be from the area.
“It’s the community organizing model that Obama talked about in 2008,” Galaszewski said. “You know, we laughed at Obama in 2008, as conservatives, when he said, ‘I’m a community organizer.’”
But that strategy, he said, is “going to make a huge difference here.”
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Obama emphasized his past as a community organizer on the campaign trail. (Michelle Gustafson/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Obama stressed his past as a community organizer during his presidential campaign in 2008, cutting an ad in which he referred to his experience organizing after winning the Democrat nomination that summer.
As Galaszewski noted, Republicans at the time ridiculed Obama’s emphasis on his community organizing as a credential in his bid to be commander-in-chief.
Turning Point Action is running a robust ground game operation in key states, such as Wisconsin, alongside various other groups, hoping to supplement the Republican Party’s efforts. The group has the largest such operation in Wisconsin, as many expect the state to be crucial in deciding the presidential election.
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Trump and Harris are each fighting to win swing state Wisconsin, which has gone both Democrat and Republican in the past two elections. (Reuters/IStock)
The all-hands-on-deck approach is beneficial for Republicans to make up some of the financial disparity between the former President Trump campaign and Vice President Harris’ and the Democrats’ war chest.
As Turning Point Action begins its on the ground ballot-chasing, they aren’t racing to knock as many doors as possible. Instead, they are targeting specifically identified people. The group has determined that the best way to turbocharge turnout is to focus on “disengaged and low-propensity conservatives.”
“We no longer see this as a war of persuasion among swing voters,” said Galaszewski.
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A woman dons a cheese hat with an American flag on it in Wisconsin. (Reuters)
Many people don’t value their votes as much as those heavily involved in politics, he explained.
“That’s something that we know the left has really homed in on — targeting those voters with low-ballot value and making it work.”
Conservatives who may not be planning to vote are the ones Turning Point Action thinks can pave the path to a Republican win. “It’s a numbers game in Wisconsin,” he added.
The group has hundreds of ballot-chasers working statewide in Wisconsin to turn out these potential voters. Some of them are salaried employees, whose full-time job is “to chase ballots in these territories.”
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Midwest
WATCH: Ohio police smash sunroof, drag injured driver from burning car after rollover crash
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Ohio police officers smashed through the sunroof of a burning vehicle and dragged a severely injured driver to safety during a tense late-night rescue following a rollover crash, authorities said.
The Trumbull County 911 Center received a call at about 11:11 p.m. Dec. 27 reporting an unknown fire near state Route 5 and Bradley Brownlee Road in Bazetta and Mecca townships.
Cortland Police Department officers John Mosora and Chuck Lohry were first to arrive, and their swift rescue was caught on a body-worn camera after the vehicle tore through a fence, flipped onto its side and caught fire.
Two Cortland, Ohio, police officers heroically rescued a driver from a burning car Dec. 27, 2025. (Cortland Police Department/Facebook)
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Mosora discovered the driver trapped inside the wreckage and broke out the vehicle’s sunroof to reach him as flames spread, police said. The driver repeatedly told officers his leg was broken and that he could not move.
“My leg is broken. I can’t move. I can’t move. Give me a second,” the driver can be heard saying in video of the rescue.
“We don’t have a second,” an officer is heard responding in the video. “Your car is on fire.”
Body camera video captured the dramatic moment two Cortland, Ohio, police officers, John Mosora and Chuck Lohry, rescued a driver from his burning, overturned car after a rollover crash Dec. 27, 2025. (Cortland Police Department/Facebook)
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As smoke filled the vehicle, officers urged the driver to help them pull him free.
“Let’s go. Let’s go. We ain’t waiting,” one officer is heard shouting in the bodycam video. “You gotta help me help you.”
Lohry used a fire extinguisher to knock down flames while Mosora dragged the driver from the vehicle moments before the fire intensified, police said.
Mosora discovered the driver trapped inside the vehicle. After attempting other access points, he broke through the vehicle’s sunroof to gain entry. (Cortland Police Department/Facebook)
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Mosora sustained minor injuries during the rescue. Multiple fire departments later arrived to extinguish the fire and provide medical treatment to the driver, who was taken to a hospital, police said.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol is handling the crash investigation.
Authorities did not immediately release the driver’s condition or the cause of the crash. Fox News Digital has reached out to Cortland Police Department for additional information.
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60th and Vliet crash, Milwaukee man pronounced dead at the scene
Crash investigation at 60th and Vliet
MILWAUKEE – A Milwaukee man was pronounced dead at the scene of a crash at 60th and Vliet on Saturday morning.
What we know:
It happened at around 11:50 a.m. The Wauwatosa Police Department said investigators determined an SUV was headed west on Vliet Street when it ran a red light at a “high rate of speed,” collided with another vehicle and then hit a tree.
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A 71-year-old Milwaukee man, who was the driver and sole occupant of the SUV, died at the scene.
The Wauwatosa Fire Department, Milwaukee Fire Department and Milwaukee Police Department assisted with the crash response. At Vliet Street, 60th Street is the municipal boundary between Milwaukee and Wauwatosa.
What we don’t know:
Wauwatosa police said details of the crash remain under investigation. Police did not say whether anyone was in the other vehicle that was struck.
The Wisconsin State Patrol is assisting the Wauwatosa Police Department with the investigation.
The Source: FOX6 News went to the scene of the crash and received information from the Wauwatosa Police Department.
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