Symone Sanders will lead League 46, the campaign’s new project to win millennials and Gen-Z.
Symone Sanders, a senior adviser to Biden and one of his most visible spokespeople, will lead the project. League 46 will build on work by the previously launched Students for Biden while forging alliances with young professionals and young elected officials.
The plan for League 46 is that young professionals and officeholders working with the campaign will help make inroads with other young voters in their communities. These “local validators,” as Sanders described them, will help the campaign connect with new people, whether it’s by discussing the challenges of finding work during a pandemic or brainstorming new ideas for engagement.
The campaign already had been experimenting with formats that could work at a time when traditional on-the-ground campaigning has been suspended because of the coronavirus quarantines. There have been virtual brunches and happy hours, hosted by some of the campaign’s most prominent young supporters. Last week, for example, Michigan Lt. Gov.
“Obviously we would love to be able to do in-person engagement,” Sanders said. “But I do think in the absence of in-person engagement we've seen a number of people step up virtually. Just because we are connecting virtually does not mean we aren’t connecting with real people.”found that Biden’s lead over President Donald Trump among 18- 34-year-olds was narrower than Hillary Clinton’s in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign.
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