Kamala Harris Voter Registration Spike; New Ad Features Beyonce; No Cell Phones in School Policy; How Project 2025 Impacts Women
➡️ 8 days until the Virginia Black Business Expo on Aug. 2
➡️ 28 days until the DNC in Chicago on Aug. 25
➡️ 39 days until the Bobby Scott Labor Day Cookout on Sept. 2
🚩 57 days until early voting in Virginia: Sept. 20
🚩 103 days until Election Day Nov. 5
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Is Kamala Harris Driving a Voting Register Spike in Virginia?
Virginia State Capitol reporter for 8News Richmond, Tyler Englander, reported yesterday that, “according to @vaELECT in the first two full days (Monday 7/23 and Tuesday 7/24) of Harris' candidacy, 4,899 people registered to vote in Virginia. During the previous week (Monday 7/15 and Tuesday 7/16), 3,535 people registered. That's a 38.5% increase.”
A Harris rapid response team member also posted this on social media:
This morning, the Harris campaign released a new ad using Beyonce’s song Freedom.
Details of Youngkin No Cell Phone Policy Discussed
By Nathaniel Cline for the Virginia Mercury - As concerns mount over student performance, echoed in an executive order from Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Virginia is developing policies and guidelines to restrict students’ use of cell phones during school hours. Some educators and advocates question the effort and believe that cell phone-free policies could be hard to enforce and may harm certain students.
Research shows that some students use cell phones to message people and browse the internet and social media apps during instructional time.
RELATED: The Atlantic: It Sure Looks Like Phones Are Making Students Dumber (Dec. 2023)
Others use them to record events in school and post them on various platforms. The resulting videos aren’t always positive: Earlier this month, a Pennsylvania school district acknowledged that several middle school students had made fake TikTok accounts impersonating their teachers, “and apparently made some posts using racist, homophobic and sexually explicit language” according to NPR.
“I hate TikTok,” said Oveta Scott, a teacher in Northern Virginia, at a Thursday listening session hosted by the state’s education department about the proposed cell phone ban in schools. “If I hear another TikTok challenge where they are destroying the bathroom, making noises in class, chirping like birds, I go insane, and I can’t take it anymore.” READ ENTIRE
Harris 100 Days Events This Weekend
Harris for President has several election events over the weekends to mark 100 days to Election Day on November 5, 2024. In Virginia, early voting begins on September 20 in 57 days.
NOTICE FROM HARRIS for PRESIDENT: Please join our Harris for Virginia Team, Local Leaders, and Women’s Rights Activists for a Brunch & Canvass Launch as we mark 100 days until Election day and we move even closer to the start of early voting. This weekend will mark 100 days until Election day and less than 60 days until Virginia starts voting. We need your help! All allies are welcomed. Please sign up below for the event closest to you:
July 26th: Norfolk, VA
July 27th:
Prince William County, VA
Fairfax County, VA
Roanoke, VA
Richmond, VA
July 28th: Hampton, VA
Video: How Project 2025 Would Impact Women
A second Project 2025 video by Molly Jong Fast provides and analysis of how the blueprint for a second Trump Administration would impact women.
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