Young voters helped elect Biden in 2020. His campaign is courting them again in 2024

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Students for Biden Harris is focused on building a large volunteer base of young supporters through student-led groups. Recruiting young voters could be key to President Biden's reelection hopes.

Students for Biden Harris is focused on building a large volunteer base of young supporters through student-led groups. Recruiting young voters could be key to President Biden's reelection hopes.In this file photo, President Biden poses for a photo with the Students Demand Action group after speaking at the National Safer Communities Summit at the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Conn., June 16, 2023.

It comes as Gen Z and younger millennials, Americans under 30, are poised to potentially play a crucial role in the 2024 presidential race. Students for Biden-Harris is the formal start of a youth outreach strategy led by Levenson. She said the launch begins a recruitment blitz for volunteers, and the campaign then plans to help students start chapters or presences at their high schools and colleges and work with these volunteers throughout the cycle.

"Young people have fought for so many things and so much has gotten done," Levenson said."People don't necessarily know what it is that's gotten done."

 

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