Kamala Harris is desperate to turn out Black voters, but there’s one group within that voting bloc who isn’t exactly feeling the love: naturalized African immigrants.
“They say, ‘We see you.’ But they don’t see you,” one source familiar with Democratic Party efforts to court African voters told NOTUS. “Every diversity group is there in the DNC — LGBT people, women, outreach at college games. They’re all there. There is nothing African.”
Harris and Democrats have made some efforts with African voters. Lawmakers like Reps. Ilhan Omar and Gabe Amo have hosted events with African Diaspora for Harris-Walz, a coalition of African-immigrant grassroots organizations supporting the vice president. And, more broadly, Democrats have invested “seven-figure” sums into ad buys in more than 100 Black radio stations and Black publications such as Essence, Ebony and Black Enterprise.