The Democratic National Committee will spend $300,000 in a first-time push to register the 9 million Americans living abroad, in an attempt to find and wins votes for the party’s presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, in the Nov. 5 presidential election.
The funding for Democrats Abroad, which represents Democrats living outside the United States, will be used to pay for voter registration drives and spread information about how to vote from overseas, a DNC official said on Monday.
The official said it was the DNC’s first time funding Democrats Abroad and the efforts would be focused on Mexico and Europe, where the largest number of overseas Americans live.
DNC officials said there were over 1.6 million Americans from the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin living overseas, and it would fight for every vote.
Those states are essential for Harris or GOP challenger former President Donald Trump to win the election. When President Joe Biden beat Trump to win the 2020 presidency he did so by a margin of just 44,000 votes across Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin.
