According to Vote.org, nearly 40,000 people registered to vote within 48 hours of President Biden announcing he was suspending his reelection campaign and endorsing Vice President Harris.
Vote.org The polls announced that 38,500 new voters had registered, the highest number of registrations in a 48-hour period this election season.
Of the new voter registrations, 83 percent were people between the ages of 18 and 34, according to voter registration nonprofits.
“A healthy democracy depends on every American having a voice at the ballot box, and this is an incredibly encouraging sign that voters are ready to do just that,” the group’s CEO Andrea Haley said in a statement.
Vote.org also said the number of new voter registrations surpassed the number recorded last September when Taylor Swift encouraged her followers to register, resulting in 34,000 new voters signing up within 48 hours.
Since Harris announced her candidacy, young Democrats and Gen Z voters have enthusiastically supported her campaign against former President Trump.
Stevie O’Hanlon, communications director for the Sunrise Movement, a youth-led climate change advocacy group, said Harris “has the potential to be a game changer in youth voter turnout” in November’s election.
Her campaign has already been trending on TikTok, sparked by singer Charli XCX’s album “Brat.” Videos and remixes of Harris have been widely shared online in recent days, including a meme of the coconut tree anecdote from the 2023 inauguration.
The vice president has also been raking in funding recently: In the first 24 hours after Biden left office, Harris raised $81 million, her campaign announced, celebrating the most money raised in 24 hours by any presidential candidate in history.
The Harris campaign said it had raised more than 888,000 contributions from grassroots individual donors, 60 percent of whom had never donated before this election cycle.
