AFL-CIO “Shadow Campaign” Directives – Union Deployment to Counting Centers (MI)

Mike Podhorzer, a senior AFL-CIO advisor described by Time magazine as the “architect” of the shadow campaign, distributed internal directives before the election explicitly detailing how the election would play out in battleground states and mobilizing union members to be deployed to polling and counting centers in Michigan to “control the narrative” and the post-election information environment. The AFL-CIO’s operational coordination with state-level Democratic operatives constitutes documented pre-election planning directed at influencing a federal election outcome.