Kamala Harris turns to her faith in outreach to Black voters

Source: CBS News

October 24, 2024 / 6:15 PM EDT


Atlanta – Reva Harvey didn't know Vice President Kamala Harris would be coming to her church on Sunday. But with almost two weeks left until Nov. 5, she thought it was "essential" for her to do so.

Harvey, a 53-year-old Black woman whose birthday was one day before Harris', said the vice president's visit to the New Birth Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, could help her find older Black voters and give them "the information that they need." "You need to hit every corner, turn every song, just to be safe," Harvey said at Harris' Saturday rally in Atlanta.

Harris, a Baptist, capped off a week of heightened outreach to Black voters with visits last Sunday to two churches in the Atlanta area. Her focus underscores the importance for her in activating and persuading Black voters, the core of her party's electorate, by going to a stronghold within the community.

At a CNN town hall on Wednesday night, Harris highlighted her faith, saying she prays "every day, sometimes twice a day." "I was raised to believe in a loving God, to believe that your faith is a verb," Harris said. "You know, you live your faith. And that, that the way that one should do that is that your work and your life's work should be to think about how you can serve in a way, uplifting other people. "


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