Vice President Kamala Harris and advocacy groups marked National Voter Registration Day by doing outreach to voters seen as crucial to November’s midterm elections.
Vice President Kamala Harris commemorated National Voter Registration Day — Sept. 20, 2022 — on two HBCU campuses in South Carolina on Tuesday, urging Black college students to register and vote in November’s midterm election.
“Your vote is your voice, and we need your voice. We need you to lead America forward,” Harris said during the fall convocation at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg. Harris also paid a visit to Claflin University, another Historically Black College and University that is separated from South Carolina State by only a fence in a city that is more than 70% Black.
As the nation’s first Black female vice president sought to energize young Black voters on Democratic issues that intersect race and gender — from voting rights to abortion — Black women leaders of advocacy organizations also marked National Voter Registration Day with campaigns geared toward mobilizing female voters (namely Black women voters) and young voters to exercise their civic duty ahead of the midterm elections on Nov. 8.
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