A brand new voter initiative specializing in Black males in battleground states launched on Tuesday.
The Collective PAC’s Vote to Dwell marketing campaign is a $4 million funding that may work to teach Black males on election entry and supply free transportation with 100,000 rides to polls throughout early voting in Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
“We launched Vote to Live knowing that Black men in the United States are not a monolith, and each and every Black man in this country deserves to make a choice and have it count,” mentioned Quentin James, founder and president of The Collective PAC.
“The idea that an eligible voter fails to cast a ballot due to a lack of education, registration, or transportation is unconscionable. For Black men around the country, who hold so much social, political, and individual power, it would be a travesty.”
Black males have change into an important voting bloc on this 12 months’s election. Whereas an August survey from Pew Analysis Heart discovered that Black males overwhelmingly help Vice President Harris over former President Trump, Harris has she plans to combat for Black males’s vote.
“I think it’s very important to not operate from the assumption that Black men are in anybody’s pocket,” Harris mentioned throughout an interview with the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists. “Black men are like any other voting group. You gotta earn their vote. So I’m working to earn the vote, not assuming I’m going to have it because I am Black.”
Trump, in the meantime, has tried to recruit Black males by spending time in Black neighborhoods and using voices like Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) on the marketing campaign path.
A few of that appears to be working, as some current surveys present Trump reducing into Harris’s benefit with Black males.
Nonetheless, Black males are much less seemingly than Black ladies to vote.
The Vote to Dwell marketing campaign hopes to register 50,000 Black voters; host Homecoming events at Traditionally Black Faculties and Universities (HBCUs) across the nation all through October, in addition to “Party at the Polls” in six states on Saturday, October twenty sixth to encourage Black voters to prove early; and can launch a get out the vote bus tour with stops throughout battleground states in partnership with the Service Workers Worldwide Union (SEIU) and the NAACP.
“No matter their generation, background, or political view, we must ensure no Black voter gets left on the margins and they are a part of the nation’s highest democratic process, especially in battleground states that will shape our future for years to come,” James mentioned.
