‘Nuge’ eyes bigger game in 2024
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Rock and roller Ted Nugent’s “Hunter Nation” and “Hunt the Vote” efforts bagged some trophies in the midterm elections, and he has even bigger prizes in focus for 2024.
The “Nuge” and Hunter Nation founder Keith Mark said their group helped to mobilize nearly 500,000 hunters who had never or rarely voted and now plan to set up 24/7 operations in at least five states expected to be key in the 2024 presidential election.
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Mark told Secrets that exit polling suggested the group’s efforts played a big role in the razor-thin victories of Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. He said the group pushed an additional 20,000 votes to the polls in Wisconsin and 60,000 in Georgia.
“We moved the needle,” Mark said. His group is nonpartisan but leans conservative and votes for “God, family, country, law, order, and Constitution.” It does not tell voters who to pick.
Over the next few weeks, Hunt the Vote plans to help mobilize voters in Georgia for the Senate runoff between Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Republican Herschel Walker.
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“I want to make sure that hunters get out and vote their values,” said Mark, who said he got the idea for the group when former President Donald Trump, in his 2016 campaign, said hunters don’t vote.
Mark conceded that most would rather sit in their deer stand or duck blind but is reminding them of something else Trump told him. Those who vote and speak up get a seat at the political table. “We just need to make that a reality,” he said.
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