Harris Launches "Hunters and Anglers" Campaign To Appeal to Rural Men

Later today the Harris-Walz presidential campaign will announce the formation of a coalition of hunters, anglers, and gun owners and tomorrow Democratic vice-presidential candidate and sitting governor of Minnesota Tim Walz will kick off his state’s pheasant opener with a stage-managed event in southern Minnesota.

The outreach to rural voters comes as polls indicate a dead-heat in critical swing states, including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan, states with significant percentages of hunters and anglers.

Sources in the Harris-Walz campaign confirmed today that a broad coalition of rural, conservation-minded, and what the campaign calls “responsible gun owners” will hold its first organizing call on Monday. Creation of the coalition is intended to create a “permission structure for those who simply love to hunt, fish, and be outside, to join the Harris-Walz campaign,” said a campaign staffer who spoke on background.

Hunters and Anglers for Harris-Walz will kick off with a national organizing call Monday to “mobilize conservationists, rural Americans, and responsible gun owners to elect Kamala Harris and Tim Walz,” the staffer told Outdoor Life. “Following the launch of this new coalition, the group will organize voters in their communities with in-person events leading up to election day.”