Harris campaign launches 'Souls to the Polls' effort to turn out Black churchgoers as Election Day approaches

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Source: ABC News

October 11, 2024, 9:00 AM


Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign is launching its "Souls to the Polls" effort this weekend to turn out Black churchgoers in battleground states as Election Day approaches, a campaign official told ABC News.

With fewer than 30 days until Election Day, the campaign's multi-pronged effort will see Harris herself visit Black churches in battleground states. The get-out-the-vote program also comes with the creation of a faith advisory board, made up of 10 prominent faith leaders -- including Harris' pastor, Dr. Amos C. Brown III, who leads Third Baptist Church in San Francisco -- who will engage Black churches across the country.

In addition to Brown, the campaign said board includes faith leaders, participating in their personal capacity, from around the country, including: Bishop Reginald T. Jackson, 132nd elected and consecrated Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie, 117th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III, senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas; and Rev. Matthew Lawrence Watley, founder and senior pastor of Kingdom Fellowship AME Church in Calverton, Maryland.

The push kicks off Sunday with a national call featuring gospel performances, faith leaders and elected officials, the campaign said. The board said in a statement they are supporting Harris, in part, because she "is the only candidate who has always been a friend and advocate to the Black Church and faith communities across the country."

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[Lovie777]

1. Every election .....

Black churches do in favor for Dems. What the media is trying to do is create panic, there is none.

The panic are the RWers, and they are lying and making up shit 24/7.

[SpankMe]

2. I apologize in advance for a potentially racially insensitive post, but...

...Black Americans are in a position to save America, and they may well do it.

After the dominant society subjected them to slavery, then the KKK and lynching, denial of education, deprivation of civil rights, unequal justice under the law, police mistreatment and on and on, African Americans could come out in numbers large enough in battleground states to tilt the election in favor of Harris thus saving us from the scourge of Trump, the batch of ghouls he'd install in the executive branch, and the totalitarian governance that would surely ensue.

A population that suffers the most from the societal impacts of conservative "leadership" could be the one that saves us all from conservative "leadership".

[BaronChocula]

3. Oh, how the white nationalist party hates SthP efforts

I love it!

[oasis]

4. Get it done!