Stand With Crypto kicks off tour to turn crypto enthusiasts to voters in battleground states – Yahoo!News
Stand With Crypto, the political driving force behind the crypto industry’s increasingly active efforts to influence the 2024 U.S. presidential election, is kicking off a multistate tour on September 4, aiming to convert 1.3 million online subscribers into pro-crypto votes. The group said its first stop in Arizona will include independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and Republican state lawmaker Travis Grantham, who is the House Speaker Pro Tem, along with crypto business leaders. After the Phoenix event, the group plans to visit several other states where the election could be close, holding similar events in Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. “There’s a lot of people who are into crypto,” said Logan Dobson, executive director of the group, in an interview. “Our job is to use a kind of campaign-like tool to motivate them to vote.” “I think crypto voters are already pretty excited about this election,” Dobson added.
The company gained about 27,000 subscribers in Arizona.
The group’s website has attracted about 27,000 registered crypto supporters in Arizona, and the group’s surveys suggest that more than 80% of them are likely registered voters. When President Joe Biden won the state in 2020, the margin of victory between former President Donald Trump and President Biden was less than 11,000 votes. Arizona is already a battleground for pro-crypto politics. One of the industry’s most popular candidates, Yassamin Ansari, won the Democratic primary by 39 votes over his opponent, who slammed the support from crypto political groups and was supported by Senator Elizabeth Warren, a crypto critic. Presidential polls currently show Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump neck and neck in Arizona, with most recent polls showing the two within a single point of each other. Of the two, only Trump has voiced his support for cryptocurrencies, but the Harris campaign is reportedly more willing to take a more crypto-friendly stance than the Biden administration.