Harris zeros in on Black men, Trump focuses on women as both seek to fire up key voting blocs

DETROIT– DETROIT (AP) — Kamala Harris And Donald Trump both urged key constituencies on Tuesday that their allies’ concerns would slip away, with the vice president seeking to reach black men and the former president focusing on women.

Harris will appear at a town hall-style event in Detroit hosted by the morning radio program “The Breakfast Club,” featuring Charlamagne Tha God, who is especially popular among black men. Trump, meanwhile, will tape a Fox News Channel town hall with an all-female audience and moderated by host Harris Faulkner.

The vice president was also scheduled to visit a black-owned business in Detroit. A day earlier, she visited LegendErie, a coffee shop and record store in Erie, Pennsylvania, where she met the couple’s owners, a local pastor and other community leaders.

Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, made the revelation his ticket’s plan to improve the lives of rural Americans. It’s yet another sign that in a razor-thin race, each party is trying to narrow the other’s margins of support with different voting blocs while bolstering traditional strengths.

The vice president’s Breakfast Club appearance comes a day after she… series of new proposals also called the “Black Men Opportunity Agenda.” The ideas are intended to provide more economic benefits to the demographic, including providing forgivable business loans of up to $20,000 to entrepreneurs and creating more apprenticeships. The plan would also support the study of sickle cell disease and other diseases that are more common in black men.

The focus on black men was sharpened last week when former President Barack Obama campaigned for Harris in Pittsburgh and said he wanted to speak “some truths” to black male voters, suggesting some “truths.” I just don’t want a woman as president.”

The vice president’s campaign says it does not believe black men will support Trump in large numbers, especially after strongly backing Democrat Joe Biden in 2020, with Harris as his running mate. They’re more concerned about a measurable percentage of black men. choosing not to vote at all.

Likewise, Trump thinks he will do well with rural voters, but Team Harris hopes to at least keep things closer. And while Harris’ support among women is strong, Trump is trying to stop her from raising the score.

Harris’ campaign has also placed a special emphasis on other male voters, including creating “ Hombres with Harris‘, or ‘Men with Harris’, a group that uses celebrities and important elected officials to organize events on its behalf designed to appeal to Hispanic men.

As she campaigns in Detroit, Harris faces other potential challenges in Michigan, including Arab activists angry by the The full support of the Biden administration for Israel war with Hamas in Gaza. Dearborn, outside of Detroit, is the largest Arab-majority city in the US

Still, the vice president’s campaign expects strong support from white, college-educated voters in Michigan on Election Day at rates that could surpass Biden’s in 2020, and it hopes to widen the margin by which Trump sweeps many of the nation’s key suburbs state has lost. years ago.

Trump, meanwhile, has seen his support among women, especially in the suburbs of many key swing states, decline since his term in the White House. An AP-NORC poll from September found that more than half of registered women voters have a somewhat or very positive view of Harris, while only about a third have a positive view of Trump.

To reverse the trend, Trump has tried to portray himself as capable of doing so protect women personally from various threatssuch as when he suggested at a rally in Pennsylvania last month that women in America “will no longer be abandoned, lonely, or afraid.” You will no longer be in danger.”

“You will be protected, and I will be your protector,” Trump said at the time. He has also suggested that if he wins, women will have no reason to consider abortion after three judges he appointed helped in 2022. to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, which had guaranteed a woman’s right to the procedure.

Elsewhere on Tuesday, Trump will deliver an economic speech in Chicago and a rally in Atlanta.