Harris campaign focuses on youth voters on National Voter Registration Day

The Harris campaign is launching a week of action aimed at turning out younger voters coinciding with National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday.

Vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and other top campaign surrogates will fan out across battleground states to encourage young voters to register and cast their ballot early or on Election Day, the campaign said.

“The stakes this November couldn’t be higher, and Vice President Harris knows 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 to drive home the stakes of this election on the issues they care most about – and that when we vote, we win.”

Walz will hold events in the battleground states of Georgia and North Carolina, while his wife, Gwen Walz, will hold an event focused on youth voter registration in Nevada.

Other campaign surrogates will head to college campuses in battleground states.

Those include Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), who will host an event at Penn State University, Bill Nye will speak at a climate event in Durham, N.C., Jane Fonda will attend a climate event at the University of Michigan and Jack Schlossberg, Kate Walsh, and Hadley Duvall will bring the campaign’s reproductive freedoms bus tour to Temple University in Philadelphia.

The campaign said it would also have a targeted presence at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic-Serving Institutions to reach Black and Latino voters.

The youth vote is expected to be critical for Harris’s chances of winning the election in November.

A New York Times/Siena poll of presidential battleground states in August showed Harris with an 8-point lead over Trump among voters aged 18-29, after finding Trump with a slight edge over President Biden in May before he ended his candidacy.

Biden won 60 percent of voters aged 18-29 in 2020, compared to 36 percent who voted for Trump, according to exit polls .

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