U.S. Presidential Election 2024 Road Trip

Takahiro Yasuno (AI engineer and former Tokyo gubernatorial candidate) and Ken Suzuki, Chairman of Smart News, took a 10-day [road trip](/en/road%20trip) to Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania just before and after the 2024 US presidential election to attend rallies, interview voters/[militias](/en/militias), and conduct [election app and conducted research. The results were published in a November 23 debriefing (co-hosted by SlowNews x SmartNews), multiple YouTube/X posts, and a SlowNews series, and he spoke about the implications for Japanese election campaigns and digital democracy. Suzuki has been conducting presidential election visits since 2016, and this will be his third.

Background and Members

• Ken Suzuki is the co-founder of SmartNews, which operates in the U.S. He conducts a field survey every four years to track the "real voice" of American society.
• Takahiro Yasuno is an AI engineer who won 150,000 votes in the 2024 gubernatorial election on the platform of digital democracy and is a new member of the inspection team.
• Accompanying him were Junko Tanaka, former NHK Washington Bureau Chief, and Stanford University Professor Seiki Tsutsui.
• U.S. Presidential Election 2024 "Field Research" Debriefing Session: American Democracy as Seen by Ken Suzuki, Junko Tanaka, Takahiro Yasuno, Seiki Tsutsui and others (11/23) chatgpt.com

Key Insights from the field

• The speech turned into a concert.
  • Anno reported that the Trump rally was like a "festival" with merchandise sales and long talks.
• Thorough micro-targeting
  • Analyzes the election apps that supported supporter mobilization and points out the challenges of Japan's campaign DX.
• A sense of fragmentation
  • Suzuki explained SmartNews' "two-wing curation" policy, saying, "If you listen locally, the language spaces of the Republican and Democratic parties are completely different.

Reporting Events

• U.S. Presidential Election 2024 Field Study Debriefing" (November 23, Shibuya, Tokyo + online)
  • Co-sponsored with SlowNews, with a capacity of 50 lottery sites and online distribution.
• A YouTube archive is available. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWzsRf0w4yY

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