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Organized by Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action, a
gun-safety group with about 10 million members, the video call
included activists, podcasters, the singer Pink and regular
voters, several who said they regretted not doing enough before
the 2016 election that put Trump in the White House.
A series of video calls supporting Harris's 2024 election bid
has been hastily put together after President Joe Biden's
announcement on Sunday that he would step aside in the race.
Hours after the announcement, more than 40,000 people joined a
Zoom call for Black women supporters. One for Black men on
Monday drew over 50,000 people and there have been separate
calls for South Asian women, LGBTQ allies, and white men.
The point “is to make sure we are using our economic and
political power to help elect Kamala Harris,” Watts said.
“White women have fallen down too many times when it comes to
voting for a presidential candidate."
White women supported Trump over Hillary Clinton in 2016, 47% to
45%, Pew Research shows. In the 2020 election, an even higher
number of white women, 53%, supported Trump.
Democrats believe Republican backing of abortion bans since the
2020 Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade will
motivate young women to the polls, attract independent women and
potentially attract some Republican women to the Democrats.
Trump's campaign is shifting gears to battle Harris, aiming to
tie her closer to Biden's policies and the rise of migrants
crossing the U.S. southern border.
On Thursday's call for white women, participants discussed
strategies, including reaching out to friend groups, fundraising
and countering misinformation.
In a sign of where Harris has weak support among left-leaning
voters, a "White Men Against MAGA" video call on Wednesday that
focused on battling Trump's Make America Great Again movement
attracted only around 1,000 attendees.
(Reporting by Heather Timmons; Additional reporting by Jarrett
Renshaw; Editing by Rod Nickel)
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