Harris' campaign is transforming big crowds into volunteers on the ground in key swing states
Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is intently focused on making sure the burst of enthusiasm after her rapid ascent to the nomination is organized into a sustained campaign that will mobilize an army of volunteers ahead of November.
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is intently focused on making sure the burst of enthusiasm after her rapid ascent to the Democratic presidential nomination is organized into a sustained campaign that will mobilize an army of volunteers ahead of November.
In the last week, as Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, crisscrossed the country speaking to packed rallies with thousands of voters, the campaign has also been hard at work signing up volunteers at those events in an effort to ensure victory.
“We have this very organic, very real, very palpable energy from people that want to support the ticket,” said Dan Kanninen, the Harris campaign’s battleground states director. “We are turning that energy and that enthusiasm into action. And at all of these events, because we’re organized, because there is a large campaign presence across the battleground states — more than 1,500 staff, more than 260 offices — those teams are able to effectively marshal that enthusiasm into volunteer shifts that mean a direct line into additional volunteer recruitment, into voter contact, knocking doors, making phone calls and driving that forward in a way that actually appreciably changes the margins in these very, very close states.”
To underscore that point, the Harris campaign shared new numbers with NBC News that it said illustrates the effort to give its supporters ways to work on the race.
Last week in Nevada, 1,000 of the 5,010 volunteer sign-ups were for the next day to join a series of weekly events the campaign holds on Sundays, a campaign official said. The campaign official said the burst of sign-ups made Sunday the biggest day yet for the weekly series. For comparison, the official said, attendance at Sunday’s events was 669% over attendance at the previous one, which was held July 7, before President Joe Biden dropped out.
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