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This week, the Harris campaign unveiled its largest push yet to appeal to the black community, as polls show the vice president‘s 2020 support.
She cited conversations with former and current elected officials who feel excluded, as well as community organizers whose relationships in impoverished neighborhoods could help turn out residents who are less likely to vote. LaMar Lemmons III, who served on Detroit’s school board, said Harris did not yet have the message needed to reach a new generation of black voters who are far more “transactional” than their parents and grandparents, in particular on the economy.
Marloshawn Franklin, a Detroit native who leads Harris’s political operations in Michigan, has taken point on informing local officials on how to get involved. His outreach has included weekly barbershop and salon conversations in Detroit and Flint that began in August. In the weeks after her defeat, political analysts cited Clinton’s inability to rally black, Hispanic, and young voters at the margins necessary to keep Trump out of the White House.
Lemmons said part of the breakdown is factional politics within the Democratic Party that have long plagued the city.Lemmons said he falls outside of Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan’s political network and, as a result, had not been approached to help Harris’s campaign.Duggan’s office did not respond to a request for comment by press time.
In terms of the black community, Democrats can still count on overwhelming support. Trump is polling at 15% nationally, according to a/Siena College. However, the same polling suggested he will improve on his 2020 margins, while in Michigan, he is benefitting from surrogates who have sway in Detroit.for Trump, while Lorenzo Sewell, a pastor at 180 Church, holds weekly “Souls to the Polls” events to turn out voters.
Flint Mayor Sheldon Neeley, a co-founder of the organization, said the point of the meeting, held before Harris rallied in the city on Oct. 5, was to deliver a “clear and concise message” to her campaign that it could use for outreach. “Our black men, we gotta get them out to vote. Kamala’s opponent promised a lot of things to the black community that he did not deliver on, and we gotta help black men understand that,” Johnson said at the rally.
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