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Lauren Gambino in Atlanta

Gen-Z voters spread the ‘Kamalove’ as Harris’s popularity earns youth support

A Black and south Asian woman with shoulder-length brown hair, wearing a beige pantsuit, waves from a tarmac with a black SUV behind her.
The US vice-president arrives in Westfield, Massachusetts, on 27 July 2024. Photograph: Stephanie Scarbrough/AP

Kamala Harris pledged to earn the votes of young people this election, as the vice-president and newly elevated presumptive Democratic nominee rides a gen Z-powered wave of online “Kamalove” .

In a virtual address to attendees of a two-day summit in Atlanta, hosted by the liberal gen Z-led organization Voters of Tomorrow, Harris said she had been elected the first female vice-president of the United States “because young voters showed up” in 2020. She touted “historic progress” made by the Biden-Harris administration on combating gun violence and climate change, all of which she said was again “at stake this November”.

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