{"id":113792,"date":"2024-10-13T20:42:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T13:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=113792"},"modified":"2024-10-13T20:42:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T13:42:46","slug":"how-a-harris-win-in-us-election-could-depend-on-democrats-in-london-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=113792","title":{"rendered":"How a Harris win in US election could depend on Democrats in London | Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">On a chilly afternoon in central <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/london\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">London<\/a>, the battle for the US presidential election is being waged with no less fervour than if the campaigners were on the other side of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Surrounded by posters for the Democratic ticket of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, volunteers at an office organised by Democrats Abroad have been hitting the phones, calling Americans living abroad, including wavering Republicans, and urge them to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.votefromabroad.org\/?utm_source=VFAcom-SocialMediaPosts-2024&amp;utm_medium=VFAcom-SocialMediaPosts-July2024&amp;utm_campaign=VFAcom-SocialMediaPosts-July2024&amp;utm_term=VFAcom-SocialMediaPosts-July2024\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">register to vote.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The event was just one that took place on a Day of Action at locations around the UK, estimated to be home to as many as 200,000 Americans. By evening, activists from chapters based in locations ranging from Scotland to English university cities were due to tune into a zoom rally addressed by Nancy Pelosi, former speaker of the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cMany of us have been living abroad for years, even decades, but we care deeply about what\u2019s at stake back home and we also want it to be a place that we still recognise when we return, whether that\u2019s a country where democracy has been preserved or even one that is still safe when it comes to the rights of women, our sisters and our daughters,\u201d said Kristin Wolfe, Chair of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Democrats<\/a> Abroad UK and a resident in London since 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The potential role of overseas Americans voters \u2013 who do not appear in national polls \u2013 should not be underestimated. In 2020 their votes made all the difference when it came to delivering the key <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/oct\/10\/harris-funding-swing-state-concerns\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">swing states<\/a> of Arizona and Georgia to Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">With the race so tight and the stakes this high \u2013 Wolfe\u2019s voice cracks as she insists that US democracy is imperilled in a way not seen since the American civil war \u2013 Harris supporters in the UK have raised their game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">At bus shelters in parts of London with higher concentrations of Americans you\u2019ll find adverts placed strategically by the group. For the first time too, digital advertising aimed at the community is being deployed on Google.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">There are also efforts to reach out and encourage voter registration face to face, such as at freshers\u2019 fairs in Oxford. On other recent weekend afternoons, activists set up open-air tables in Hyde Park and at Marylebone Farmer\u2019s Market in London to catch any passing Americans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Among curious passersby who stopped at the market table was the British pop star, Harry Styles, although the singer is not known to have a US passport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">That said, Democrats in the UK have suddenly found a local celebrity of their own in the form of Matt Klaber, who was a student at the high school where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/tim-walz\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Tim Walz<\/a> once taught and who recently spoke in London at a \u201cre-watch\u201d of the vice-presidential debate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Klaber \u2013 a London-based software engineer and Democratic activist \u2013 also played a role in Walz\u2019s own political \u201corigin story\u201d when he took students to see a George W Bush campaign rally in 2004, only for some of them to be turned away by organisers who believed they were Democrats. The experience led Walz to seek public office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">One of those students was Klaber, who insists that Walz\u2019s wholesome public persona is exactly true to the one he and others have long known in person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cMy earliest recollection of Tim is of being in the school library and seeing him rush out with his jacket and briefcase because he was being activated as a national guardsman who was going to help lead the response to some flooding,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cThe whole campaign metaphor of being a coach might have been a bit foreign to me as I wasn\u2019t necessarily into sports, but actually they\u2019ve nailed it. He is everybody\u2019s coach, whether it\u2019s what he was doing when he was a teacher, what he did in 2004 when there was the incident at the rally, or what he\u2019s doing now by stepping up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Efforts by Democrats Abroad UK to mobilise US voters in the UK and elsewhere are taking on a new urgency as registration deadlines loom for states including Wisconsin (16 October) and Pennsylvania (21 October).<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">So too are efforts to counter misinformation in the form of misleading claims by Donald Trump that Democrats were somehow preparing to \u201ccheat\u201d and that ballots were being sent overseas without proper checks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cThat\u2019s just so blatantly false because the truth is that processes of the most rigorous kind are in place,\u201d said Wolfe, who accuses Trump of seeking to intentionally confuse and mislead because he is concerned about the potential impact of overseas voters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/oct\/13\/how-kamala-harris-win-in-us-election-could-depend-on-democrats-in-london\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a chilly afternoon in central London, the battle for the US presidential election is being waged with no less fervour than if the campaigners were on the other side &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=113792\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}