Three canvassing champions appear on our team page, each with an extraordinary accomplishment during the 2026 election cycle.
CHAMPION CANVASSER – Mike Reyes: New England’s Mike Reyes knocked on 10,112 doors for Mike Minogue, Susan Collins and Paul LePage between Labor Day and Election Day, earning the national title for the general period. LePage was the only Republican to flip a blue seat this year.
CHAMPION CANVASSING TEAM – Daniel Heald: Daniel’s team set the final-month record with 32,786 doors in Alabama, capping off an Alabama effort that reached hundreds of thousands of doors.
CRUNCH-TIME CHAMPION – Rafael Andrews: Our crunch-time champion is Rafael Andrews, who knocked on the most doors (5,760) during the final 16 days, moving like he was still playing football for Concordia (where he had several games with NINE solo tackles and one with an incredible 18 tackles) at the time of his testimonial pictured above. The video at the top of the blog shows Rafael being introduced by Green Bay Packers Hall of Famer Reggie White to talk about his testimony.
If you could follow our canvassers like Rafael around, you would quickly understand why, for three straight years, counties canvassed by our teams have improved the conservative vote by 9 percentage points more than other counties in the same campaigns that were canvassed by other companies or not canvassed at all.
While we don’t video-record our conversations with voters, we believe the next best thing is to get a sense of the personal connections our canvassers make by going back in time to watch Reggie White introduce Rafael and describe the day Rafael accepted Jesus Christ and was baptized.
In 1995 as a Green Bay Packer, Reggie White became a mentor to Rafael Andrews and shortly afterward helped Rafael launch a mentoring program for inner-city children in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
That program would eventually give birth to the Minority Christian Coaches Association (MCCA) and Christian Programs for Inner-City Children (CPIC International). In the coming decades, these two organizations reached thousands of young people and families around the world through mentoring clubs, mission projects and other programs.
Bonus Video: Tommy Thompson’s Advice to Governor-elect David Crowley
At the bottom of this email, we also feature a recent television interview with former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, who was asked what advice he would give David Crowley about reaching across the aisle as Wisconsin’s next governor.
The PBS host noted that Crowley’s victory by more than 8 points was the largest margin in a Wisconsin governor’s race since Thompson won his final election by 22 points. Thompson subsequently became the legendary Secretary of Health and Human Services under President George W. Bush.
Our April polling anticipated the election results seven months in advance.
In late April, we sent our polling results to a few key Wisconsin decision-makers. Our polling showed that Tommy Thompson would defeat Mandela Barnes if he ran for governor this year.
Meanwhile, our polling showed Tom Tiffany losing to Mandela Barnes, 47.05% to 41.54%, and to Sara Rodriguez, 47.05% to 38.58%.
Although we did not poll Tiffany against David Crowley, our two matchups showed Tiffany losing by an average of 7 percentage points.
Some skeptics claimed those results couldn’t possibly be correct. Yet seven months later, our polling was within 1 percentage point of the eventual election margin.
Pollsters working for campaigns often release surveys showing their candidates trailing by no more than 4 points, encouraging donors to believe the race is close enough to justify investing more money. Our April polling, however, offered an early warning of the much larger challenge Republicans faced.
Our biggest disappointment in receiving $0 of the $55 million in conservative money spent on the Wisconsin election. We specifically requested funding to turn out conservatives in Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District (CD-1), represented by incumbent Bryan Steil. Our goal was to knock on more than 100,000 doors, just as we had done in 2024 in CD-3, represented by incumbent Derrick Van Orden.
We have always said we don’t want to focus on “landslides or lost causes.” In 2024, it seemed clear that Steil would win in a landslide, while Trump and Van Orden faced close races, so we focused our efforts there. After our April 2026 poll, it appeared the governor’s race was a lost cause, but Steil’s race would be close enough that a 100,000-door canvassing effort could make the difference.
Unfortunately, we received no funding to turn out conservatives in CD-1, where Mitchell Berman defeated Steil with less than 52% of the vote. That was especially disappointing given that, for the third consecutive year, the areas where we did canvass showed a 9-percentage-point improvement in Republican performance compared with other areas.
Watch the interview with Tommy Thompson below: