Trump’s campaign has ceded much of its ground game to two new, prominent groups: Turning Point Action, the political arm of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, and Elon Musk’s America PAC.

But these groups don’t have the years of experience in voting that traditional, more established campaign groups have. And they have a different approach.

The US Department of Justice recently warned Musk that his pledge to give $1 million (£770,000) a day to a registered voter in Pennsylvania who signed a petition with his PAC could be illegal. Musk is also being sued by prosecutors in Philadelphia. He denies any wrongdoing.

According to Politico, Turning Point Action and America PAC appear to have combined some operations in the battleground state of Wisconsin.

But Republicans in Georgia are skeptical that this unwieldy coalition has a strong enough ground game.

“The field games in Georgia have no central mission,” said one Republican operative who works with politicians in the state, who asked to remain anonymous to speak publicly about Trump’s volunteer operation. “There seem to be places for people to go to feel like they’re a part of (something) … But there’s no real, organized, get-out-the-vote effort.”

Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, leads a powerful grassroots organization known as Georgians First, which has spent over $3 million building the Republican base for candidates on the ballot.

But the governor publicly said they were not working on Trump’s behalf.

Kemp told the BBC: “I really can’t speculate on exactly what they were doing.”

“President Trump’s campaign just has a different pattern.”