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Democrats target US swing state voters overseas to win support for Harris
Over 1.6 million Americans from the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin living overseas, say DNC officials
The Democratic National Committee will spend over $100,000 in a first-ever push to register the nine million Americans living abroad, working to win votes for the party's nominee Vice-President Kamala Harris in the November 5 presidential election.
The funding for Democrats Abroad, which represents Democrats living outside the United States, will be used to pay for voter registration drives and spread information about how to vote from overseas, a DNC official said on Monday.
Democratic presidential candidate, US Vice-President Kamala Harris, accompanied by Democratic vice-presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (L), speaks at a campaign rally at United Auto Workers Local 900 last week in Wayne, Michigan. AFP
DNC officials said there were over 1.6 million Americans from the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin living overseas, and it would fight for every vote.
Those states are essential for Harris or Republican former President Donald Trump to win the election. President Joe Biden beat Trump to win the 2020 presidency by winning just 44,000 votes across Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin.
"The DNC is leaving no stone left unturned to ensure that Kamala Harris will be the next president of the United States," it said in a statement, noting that only eight percentage of Americans living outside the country had registered to vote in the 2020 election.
"This election will be won on the margins and with only three months until the election, every vote matters – including the votes of those who are serving or living abroad."
The largest contingent of Americans living overseas resides in Mexico, a DNC official said, with the next largest numbers living in various countries in Europe.
Supporters of US Vice-President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris cheer as she speaks during a campaign rally at the Thomas and Mack Center, University of Nevada in Las Vegas, Nevada, last week. AFP
Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, last week toured multiple political battleground states, packing rallies with thousands of people and building on the momentum that has propelled her since she took over at the top of the Democratic ticket after President Joe Biden stepped aside.
Biden, 81, ended his candidacy and endorsed Harris after a poor performance against Trump sparked turmoil within the Democratic Party and fuelled concerns that he could not beat the former president or finish a second four-year term.
Harris has pulled ahead of Trump by four percentage points each in separate polls of voters in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania conducted by the New York Times and Siena College, a big change from polls in those swing states taken before Biden quit the presidential race last month.
Nationally, Harris was ahead of Trump by five percentage points, 42% to 37%, in an Ipsos poll published on Thursday, widening her lead from a July 22-23 Reuters/Ipsos survey, which found her up 37% to 34%.
Martha McDevitt-Pugh, who chairs Democrats Abroad, called the DNC funding "a powerful affirmation of our work and the importance of the overseas electorate, who vote back in their home state and have been the margin of victory in numerous pivotal races, such as delivering Georgia in 2020."
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