There are 38 days until Election Day, which takes place across the country on November 5, and the Harris-Walz campaign is looking to secure the young vote. And what better place to do that than at some of the most prestigious educational institutions around the country.
The campaign is set to begin a tour of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) with an emphasis on battleground states. Schools in Georgia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, will be among the list of eight institutions.
The tour schedule as it is currently being announced will run from late September through late October beginning in North Carolina at Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) on the weekend of Sept. 28. The campaign will take part in the school’s Founders Day celebration and will tailgate before the WSSU/Bowie State University football game.
The month of October will have the tour make stops to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and Petersburg, Virginia at Virginia State University on the weekend of Oct. 12.
Howard University is next on the weekend of Oct. 19, before the tour moves on to Greensboro, North Carolina, and North Carolina A&T, and then to Atlanta for homecoming at Clark Atlanta University.
Morehouse College and Spelman College homecoming, more commonly known as SpelHouse Homecoming, is next on the tour schedule for the weekend of Oct. 26. That weekend will be especially busy because One Music Fest, the annual celebration of hip-hop and R&B in Piedmont Park, takes place on the same weekend.
Harris had made several stops to the Atlanta University Center as vice president, while Walz recently visited several small businesses near campus while on an Atlanta solo campaign stop on Sept. 17.
It has not been confirmed that either or both Harris and Walz will be present at any stop on the HBCU Tour.
