President Biden sent shock waves through Washington by suddenly and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris’s candidacy. Influential Biden surrogates like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were concerned that eliminating Biden wouldn’t result in automatic , a Black woman.
But Harris’ entry into the race injected a shot of energy and money into what had become a demoralizing Democratic presidential campaign. As many as 44,000 Black women joined a Win With Black Women Zoom call and, in just three hours, raised more than one million dollars for Harris. ActBlue, a Democratic fundraising platform that 46.
7 million dollars flowed into Kamala Harris’s campaign in 7 hours, making Sunday the “biggest fundraising day of the 2024 cycle.” There are many issues Black women face, from challenges to reproductive freedoms to staggering student loan debt to aggressive policing that disrupts our families and community. So what would a Harris presidency mean for Black women? Harris has been a staunch advocate for reproductive rights.
On the 51st anniversary of Roe earlier this year, Harris launched a multi-city tour in support of reproductive freedom. In her first stop on the tour in the swing state of Wisconsin, she explained in a that Trump was proud of what he’d done to decimate women’s rights and much more was at stake if he was re-elected “By inference, he is proud that women have been deprived of fundamental freedoms to make decisions about their own body; by inference, proud.