President Biden’s reelection campaign is set to launch the “Black Voters for Biden-Harris” initiative at a majority Black college in Philadelphia on Wednesday.
The president and vice president Harris will travel to Girard College for a campaign rally for the launch.
They will be joined by black leaders, including Maryland Gov.
Wes Moore (D), Biden campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond, and Congressional Black Caucus chair Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), among others.
The initiative will include an eight-figure investment and involve work over the summer to partner with Black organizations to increase outreach to Black voters and strengthen voter protections ahead of the election, according to the campaign.
It will also engage with Black-owned media outlets and travel by surrogates to battleground states the weekend after the rally, including to a Black church in Atlanta, a block party celebration in Nevada, and barber shops in Michigan.
“This coalition and the newly announced summer outreach and engagement programming serve as the next phase of our campaign’s ongoing historic investments in outreach to the backbone of the Biden-Harris coalition – Black voters,” principal deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks said in a statement.
.Here are the top political news stories for today.
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
How does targeting campaign efforts specifically at Black voters make you feel about the inclusivity or exclusivity of political campaigns?
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
If you were a voter in one of the targeted areas (e.g., attending a block party in Nevada or visiting a barber shop in Michigan), how would you feel about being specifically targeted by a campaign?
@9N6LQ722yrs2Y
there's a difference between racist targeting and seeing that access to information in deprived areas or in certain demographics should be addressed. perhaps someone should've come up with a better name for it.
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
Do you believe focusing campaign efforts on specific demographics, like Black voters, strengthens or divides the larger community's sense of unity?
@9N6LQ722yrs2Y
focusing efforts on specific demographics is divisive however this is why demographics are targeted because they're already culturally or economically etc separated.
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
Join in on more popular conversations.
