Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is launching its “Souls to the Polls” effort this weekend to turn out Black churchgoers in battleground states.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is launching its “Souls to the Polls” effort this weekend to turn out Black churchgoers in battleground states as Election Day approaches, a campaign official .
With fewer than 30 days until Election Day, the campaign’s multi-pronged effort will see Harris herself visit Black churches in battleground states. The get-out-the-vote program also comes with the creation of a faith advisory board, made up of 10 prominent faith leaders — including Harris’ pastor, Dr. Amos C. Brown III, who leads Third Baptist Church in San Francisco — who will engage Black churches across the country.
In addition to Brown, the campaign said board includes faith leaders, participating in their personal capacity, from around the country, including: Bishop Reginald T. Jackson, 132nd elected and consecrated Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie, 117th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III, senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas; and Rev. Matthew Lawrence Watley, founder and senior pastor of Kingdom Fellowship AME Church in Calverton, Maryland.
The push kicks off Sunday with a national call featuring gospel performances, faith leaders and elected officials, the campaign said.
The board said in a statement they are supporting Harris, in part, because she “is the only candidate who has always been a friend and advocate to the Black Church and faith communities across the country.
