Canvassing For Kamala Harris convinced Johanna Schneller there are more kind, sane people in America than not
U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris walks on stage during a campaign rally at the Carrie Blast Furnaces National Historic Landmark outside Pittsburgh, in Rankin, Pennsylvania on Nov. 4, 2024.Nauseously optimistic. I’ve just spent three weeks volunteering for Kamala Harris in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania – some of the most contested turf in this most contested U.S. presidential election – and that’s the campaign joke about how many of us are feeling.
One afternoon we talked to a 75-year-old woman who said she was voting for the first time, and was thrilled it was for Ms. Harris. “Why haven’t you voted before?” we asked. Her late husband, she said, wouldn’t let her. While canvassing in Hellertown, I talked to a woman who pointed across the street to her neighbour’s yard.
But lately, Democrats have been moving into the region, and the Harris campaign is reaching out to them. As we are knocking these doors – most for the very first time – people are actually lowering their voices to speak to us. They support Ms. Harris, they say, but they’re afraid to put up a sign, because they don’t know how their neighbours will react.
I keep thinking about a woman I canvassed in Easton, who told me she wasn’t voting. She didn’t like Mr. Trump, but her big issue was “the border,” and Ms. Harris wasn’t fixing that. I asked why the border was her priority, since PA is far from it, and eventually we got to it: Her son died two years ago, from a fentanyl overdose, and she was convinced illegal immigrants sold him the drugs. I told her how sorry I was, then urged her to think about her own health care.
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