The fight for the youth vote in Pennsylvania intensifies as momentum shifts toward Harris
CNN
As the November election nears, the campaigns of both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are working hard to energize younger voters.
Eian Anderson was dreading coming back to campus this fall. “I was thinking, how can I convince some 18-year-old, fresh out of high school, ‘Hey! Come spend the whole day talking to people you don’t know over the phone for Joe Biden’?” the 22-year-old University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown student explained to CNN in a recent interview. “Hard sell. Not easy,” concluded Anderson, who leads UPJ’s College Democrats. But when Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democrats’ new nominee for president, Anderson said the energy flipped. “It’s definitely changed,” he said with a smile. As the November election nears, the campaigns of both Harris and former President Donald Trump are working hard to energize younger voters.
Senate Democrats grilled Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his various controversial statements including his stance on vaccines during his confirmation hearing to be President Donald Trump’s health and human services secretary, and most left feeling overwhelmingly unsatisfied by the answers they received.
A Nigerian man has been extradited to the US to face charges in the “sextortion” of a South Carolina teen who died by suicide in 2022. Prosecutors allege the scammer posed as a young woman, persuaded 17-year-old Gavin Guffey to send him nude photos and then threatened to publicize them if Guffey didn’t send money.