Kamala Harris is coming to Philly as Biden makes a push for Black voters [View all]
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer
A little over a month after Biden named Harris his running mate, she’s making her first stop in Pennsylvania tomorrow (no word yet on what she’ll 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 we’ve 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 they’ll 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 Clinton’s 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, Biden’s campaign co-chair. “Nobody is saying we think we’re 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 we’re talking about the things that are important to them. Because we’re 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.
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