PHILADELPHIA – The exuberant crowd at a union rally here on Saturday to get out the vote for Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was keenly aware of at least three things that rally speakers touched on:
- the 2024 presidential election is the most consequential of our lifetimes;
- Pennsylvania is destined to play a defining role in its outcome;
- the election is only three days away and a final get-out-the-vote push will be pivotal to ensuring victory.
AFSCME President Lee Saunders told the hundreds of union volunteers that if they continued to knock on doors through Nov. 5, election victory would be ours.
“I’ve been in Pennsylvania for the past couple of days. And let me tell you something — I’m feeling excitement. I’m feeling engagement. I’m feeling that if we do what we know we can do, if we knock on doors, if we talk to our members in our communities across this state, we will win on Tuesday!” Saunders said to cheers from the fired-up crowd.
“It’s going to take all of us working together for the next three days,” Saunders added. “We know how important it is to knock on those doors and have those conversations.”
The rally at Sheet Metal Workers’ Local 19 gave union leaders an opportunity to energize hundreds of get-out-the-vote volunteers who are helping to win the election for the pro-worker Harris-Walz ticket. Many of them have been knocking on doors in Philadelphia-area neighborhoods and nearby communities for weeks or months.