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Christians are showing up for Kamala Harris.
More than 16,000 faith leaders helped raise over half a million dollars for the vice president and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee during a virtual meeting organized by the Black Church PAC.
The Black Church PAC is just the latest among numerous groups that have been gathering virtually to encourage voter registration, fundraising, and awareness of key issues impacting Americans amid the 2024 presidential election. Among those groups have been “White Dudes for Harris,” which raised over $4 million, and “First Ladies of Faith United for Kamala Harris.”
Harris, who recently tapped Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, has been breaking all kinds of records with fundraising and tentative voter support.
If elected, Harris would make history as the nation’s first-ever Black woman president. The vice president identifies as Black and was born to Indian and Jamaican parents.
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Harris also identifies as Baptist, which may inspire extra excitement about her candidacy among faith groups like the Black Church PAC.
Founded in 2017 by more than 20 clergy members representing various organizations, leaders of the Black Church PAC described this presidential election as a “herstoric moment,” according to Word in Black.
Joshua DuBois, one of the group’s founding members who also led the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships under Obama, asked virtual attendees to consider if they “prefer the church of Matthew 25 or Project 2025” — the latter a reference to a Republican roadmap to revamp the federal government.
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Another faith-based group also plans to gather virtually to help shore up support for Harris in the coming days.
Evangelicals for Harris, led by the Rev. Jim Ball, has organized a Zoom call to “encourage and engage” with “all Christians and people of goodwill” in an effort to get Harris and Walz into the White House.
That call, slated for Wednesday, appears to center on an ethnically diverse group of Christian leaders who also believe Trump is bad for America.