The Harris campaign is kicking off a week of outreach to encourage younger voters to vote, coinciding with National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday.
Vice presidential candidate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (Democrat) and other key campaign officials will be traveling to battleground states urging young voters to register and vote early or on Election Day, the campaign said.
“The stakes in November couldn't be higher, and Vice President Harris knows that our democracy is stronger when we all vote,” Harris campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a statement. “We are focused on meeting young Americans where they are and helping them understand the stakes of this election on the issues they care about most, and that if we vote, we can win.”
Walz will hold events in the battleground states of Georgia and North Carolina, while his wife, Gwen Walz, will hold an event in Nevada focused on registering young people to vote.
Other campaign replies plan to head to college campuses in battleground states.
Among them are Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D), who will host an event at Penn State University; Bill Nye, who will speak at a climate event in Durham, North Carolina; Jane Fonda, who will attend a climate event at the University of Michigan; and Jack Schlossberg, Kate Walsh and Hadley Duvall, who will be leading the campaign's reproductive freedom bus tour at Temple University in Philadelphia.
The campaign said it would also focus on historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and educational institutions that serve Hispanic students to reach out to black and Latino voters.
The youth vote is expected to be crucial to Harris' chances of winning the November election.
aNew York Times/Siena PollA survey of battleground states in August found Harris leading Trump by eight points among voters aged 18 to 29.Slightly superiorHe criticized Biden before he ended his presidential campaign in May.
Biden won 60% of voters aged 18 to 29 in 2020, compared with 36% who voted for Trump. Exit polls.
