Kamala Harris is coming to Philly as Biden makes a push for Black voters
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer
A little over a month after Biden named Harris his running mate, shes making her first stop in Pennsylvania tomorrow (no word yet on what shell be doing in Philly).
Her visit comes as the Biden camp launches a series of ads and messages targeted to Black voters. While Black turnout in 2016 dipped in other key swing-state cities like Milwaukee and Detroit compared to 2012, it was almost even in Philly. But almost even might not be enough for Biden in 2020, when the white working class voters weve talked to in northeast and southwest Pennsylvania are only more solidly for Trump.
Biden started airing two new ads in Pennsylvania this week, one featuring a Black woman who heads a community development corporation in Pittsburgh. Top campaign strategists also outlined their national plans for Black voter outreach, saying theyll pay particular attention to Black men. That could be key in Pennsylvania, where 14% of Black men backed Trump in 2016 contributing to, as FiveThirtyEight noted, a drop of about seven percentage points in Hillary Clintons total share of the Black vote compared to Barack Obama. The other new Pennsylvania ad features a group of Black men in a barber shop discussing the stakes in 2020.
We have to go earn the vote, said Louisiana Congressman Cedric Richmond, Bidens campaign co-chair. Nobody is saying we think were going to get all of the Black vote because we are the Democratic nominee. We hope to get the overwhelming majority because we earned it, because were talking about the things that are important to them. Because were not lying to them.
Read more: https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/kamala-harris-philadelphia-pennsylvania-campaign-stop-black-voters-20200916.html
Good to see Biden/Harris are not taking any battleground states for granted and hitting key states like PA to lock down the vote.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Drumpfs going to Ohio.
Cha
(296,726 posts)if they've both tested negative for COVID.. i don't see why not?
BumRushDaShow
(128,344 posts)KYW 1060 (CBS affiliate in Philly).
I have pretty much stopped watching TV but understand ads are running there as well.
There were 2 versions that I recall that were directly targeted to black voters. One was the radio (audio) version of this TV ad -
and the other (voiceover was done by an obvious black voice actor) was focused on the botched COVID-19 response by utilizing severeal of the Woodward Drumpf clips and how nearly a quarter of the deaths from coronavirus have been black, etc.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)while the other sides breathes in all that freedom and COVID
TomCADem
(17,380 posts)It is great that Biden/Harris are going out visiting people where they are, rather than herding people into super spreader rallies.
https://6abc.com/kamala-harris-vp-philadelphia-jim-gardner/6429403/
Harris arrived at Philadelphia International Airport at about 10 a.m. and is expected to make several campaign stops.
In the one-on-one interview, scheduled for Thursday afternoon, Harris is expected to discuss the state of the race and how the campaign is expanding the electorate in Pennsylvania.
She also plans to attend an event for She Can Win, a movement that supports empowering women in civic leadership, and will join a community conversation with Latino leaders and elected officials
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)StevieM
(10,500 posts)among black voters in Philly. That means she completely blew Gore and Kerry out of the water.
The media, of course, will never tell that story.