The campaign wants to try and win over more Black men

She wants to stay afloat: She doesn’t want to vote, but she wants to make a change ’til the election’

Reached on the phone this week, he said he’s definitely planning to vote. Pounds said he was happy when Biden dropped out because he thought he was too old for the job.

Evans was cutting the hair of Christian Pounds, a college student. He didn’t think that his vote would change anything at the time because he disliked both candidates.

Evans says that gas prices and groceries are too much for many voters this year. She sees Harris talking about going after companies for price gouging in the ads that show up constantly on the TV in the barbershop — but Evans doesn’t buy that as a real solution.

Evans was less than enthusiastic about the election, saying she did not like Trump or Biden. Evans was disappointed that Harris had disappeared from the spotlight.

This weekend, Harris will be in Eastern North Carolina, a section of the state with a large Black population but where turnout among those voters has lagged in recent years.

Harris will be in Erie, Pa., to meet with a group of Black men before holding a rally in the city. And on Tuesday, she plans to meet with Black entrepreneurs in Detroit after a town hall conversation moderated by Charlamagne tha God, the influential Black radio host who has pulled very few punches with Democratic politicians.

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It makes me see that you’re making up other reasons for not having a woman president, and I think that’s part of why you don’t feel like it.

That is why Harris will be taking questions from callers in swing states in a town hall conversation that will be moderated by the influential Black radio host who has pulled very few punches with Democratic politicians.

The upcoming election is shaping up to be a tight one, and Harris could be hurt by Softening of support among Black men. Most polls show her and Trump in a dead heat. Barack Obama said last week that he wanted to “speak some truths” about the turnout for Harris, which was far behind the turnout he experienced in 2008.

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. — From behind her barber chair and in her community, Cherita Evans — who goes by “Storm the Barber” — has picked up on a troubling trend for Vice President Harris’ campaign.

Mike Harris is a barber in Wilson. He’s been voting for Democrats all his life, and said he hopes Harris will become the first female president.

“Some people don’t believe in female leaders, but I tell them all the time … my mom raised me and my brother in our house. So I think that, you know, women can do the job,” Mike Harris said.

They said that black Americans do not owe their votes to any candidate just because they look like them. “It’s demeaning to suggest that we can’t evaluate a candidate’s track record — especially when Kamala Harris has done more harm than good to Black communities.”

She spent the weekend campaigning in North Carolina, attending a Black church in Greenville, N.C., before holding a rally in the community in a part of the state where Democrats are hoping to boost turnout among Black voters.

Former Rep. Cedric Richmond, a co-chair of the Harris’ campaign, said her new announcement is part of her “Opportunity Economy” pledge — “an economy where people don’t just get by, but get ahead. To buy a home, give for our families, start a business and build wealth is what Black men are capable of, he said.

Vice President Kamala Harris is pledging Monday to legalize recreational marijuana, protect cryptocurrency assets and give 1 million loans to Black entrepreneurs, as part of her efforts to court Black voters who may be pivotal in the presidential race.