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In Washington, multiple speakers on different panels discussed the ability of black voters to decide the November election, just 53 days from now, pointing to their efforts to boost Harris’s successful campaign to replace President Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee.
“It’s black women really leaning into the notion of what we always done,” said Jotaka Eaddy, the founder of, the group that launched the first Zoom meeting for the vice president, who could become the second black person and first woman elected president. “It’s that if you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready.”
“We were built for this moment. So, when there was an abrupt change in this election cycle, and for someone to be able to step into that, and then for black women to galvanize around that, is because we’ve been built for this moment,” said Glynda Carr, founder of Higher Heights, an organization that helps black female candidates run for office.Win With Black Men organized its own call to raise money for Harris.
Before she was vice president, Harris was the junior senator from California and a member of the Black Caucus. That connection to a powerful voting bloc in Congress would help boost Harris as Biden faced heavy pressure to pick a woman as his vice president during his 2020 run. Four years later, their quick mobilization and support helped beat back any challengers to Harris’s campaign.Martin also stressed that grassroots movement helped lead the campaign’s appeal to black male voters.
Key black Republicans such as Sen. Tim Scott , Rep. Byron Donalds , and Rep. Wesley Hunt crisscrossed the nation, holding events targeting black men in cities in battleground states that will decide the election.at the conference that he did not think black men would actually vote for Trump in high numbers in November.
“When Chisholm decides to run, unlike Kamala, this is a unique situation. Chisholm is doing it without coming to the Congressional Black Caucus and asking, as you will, permission to do so,” said Fraser, the author of the upcoming bookBut more than four decades later: “It was not only black women, but it was the Congressional Black Caucus that refused to have Kamala be overlooked,” Fraser said.
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