Almost 40,000 people registered to vote in the 48 hours after President Biden announced he was suspending his reelection campaign and endorsing Vice President Harris, Vote.org said.
Vote.org said 38,500 new voters registered, representing the largest number of registrations in a 48-hour period this election cycle.
Of the new voter registrations, 83 percent were from people aged 18-34, according to the voting registration nonprofit group.
kudos to everyone who thought Biden stepping down was a bad idea but admit they were wrong now. i understand why some people thought it would lead to uncertainty and chaos, might look weak, etc. it’s an understandable concern.
and now it’s in the past. if you can see that it’s helping your side by energizing people who might have checked out before, it’s severely hurting the other side who only had prepared attacks on biden and have nothing to say but whine that this isn’t fair, and most importantly her willingness to talk about project 2025 unlike biden is raising awareness and distaste for the republicans… and think “hey this went better than I expected and I’m glad that it happened”… then I salute you. i hope this inspires you to talk to more people and get more people to vote.
“hey this went better than I expected and I’m glad that it happened” you just described me exactly lol. I figured Biden dropping out would be bad for our democracy and Trump would be more likely to win.
A day after he dropped out I knew I was wrong given the absolute excitement from pretty much everyone except Republicans, happy it happened now.
Me. I was one of those people.
Never been happier to have been wrong though