The influential younger folks gun reform group March For Our Lives has made its first-ever presidential endorsement for Vice President Kamala Harris.
March For Our Lives launched a press release:
March For Our Lives is happy to endorse Kamala Harris for President of the USA. That is the primary endorsement we’ve ever made, and the stakes couldn’t be increased. As one of many largest youth-led actions within the nation, we’re clear-eyed in regards to the problem forward and we imagine that Kamala Harris is uniquely suited to satisfy this second.
The nation that younger folks will quickly inherit stands on the precipice—on one facet, authoritarianism that threatens our elementary rights, together with our proper to reside freely with out worry of gun violence; on the opposite, a world the place we are able to preserve preventing to construct the long run that younger folks know we deserve. We want an ardent defender of democracy, a gun violence prevention champion, and a frontrunner who will hearken to younger folks, give us a seat on the desk, and combat for our future. We imagine that Kamala Harris is that candidate, and the proper individual to face up for us and combat for the nation we deserve.
Younger persons are inheriting an more and more precarious world as gun violence stays the main reason behind loss of life for younger folks for the third yr in a row, the battle in Gaza continues to rage on, the local weather disaster escalates, and far-right politicians are pushing probably the most extremist agendas in our nation’s historical past. We now have been struggling to really feel enthusiastic about voting on this election, and are more and more pessimistic that change is feasible. However we all know that one other Trump Presidency is solely not an choice that younger folks can afford—our lives are actually at stake. Kamala Harris’ activity is a tall one—to run a marketing campaign that boldly paints a future that we are able to imagine in. We name on her to run a marketing campaign that fights for the coverage options that younger folks need, like an assault weapons ban, motion on local weather change, a vigorous protection of abortion, court docket reform, and a direct and lasting ceasefire in Gaza. Younger persons are savvy voters, who will see by way of empty guarantees and cynical horsetrading. We imagine that Kamala will step above that and combat for a daring, progressive future—and we’ll maintain her accountable to that.
All through her time in DC, first as a Senator after which as Vice President, she has been a forceful champion for gun security and for younger folks. On the 2020 Presidential Gun Security Discussion board we hosted with our pals at Giffords, Vice President Harris outlined a daring plan to deal with gun violence from each angle—demanding motion from Congress, and utilizing the ability of the presidency to combat for our lives. Since turning into Vice President, she has met usually with advocates and survivors of gun violence, and we’ve had the pleasure of working together with her as she’s led the White Home Workplace of Gun Violence Prevention. Importantly, Vice President Harris has put gun violence survivors on the heart of policymaking, demonstrating her dedication to empowering these most impacted by the difficulty to implement the proper options. As she begins her marketing campaign for president, we sit up for working together with her to develop a complete plan to fight gun violence, centered on a holistic and preventive method.
The nation is witnessing the big and profitable Democratic coalition coming collectively to mobilize behind Vice President Harris. If all of those allies stand collectively, they’re greater and extra highly effective than Trump and MAGA.
The vast majority of America is letting or not it’s identified that they don’t need Venture 2025. They don’t need an authoritarian regime with a rapist convicted felon in cost. The tyranny of the minority that Trump is trying to implement by overthrowing democracy is dealing with rejection.
Younger folks perceive this second, and now they’ve a candidate that they really feel enthusiastic about and a future that they’ll imagine in.
