ATLANTA (AP) – Kamala Harris is going to church in Georgia on Sunday, where she will speak to worshipers and encourage black parishioners to vote as part of a nationwide campaign called “Souls to the Ballot Boxes.”

The Democratic presidential candidate plans to attend services with singer Stevie Wonder at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest and Divine Faith Ministries International in Jonesboro before recording an interview with Rev. Al Sharpton. Her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, is expected to attend church in Saginaw, Michigan, and his wife, Gwen, will attend a service in Las Vegas.

The mobilization effort, which began Oct. 20, is being led by the National Advisory Board of Black Faith Leaders, which is sending representatives to all battleground states when early voting begins in the Nov. 5 election.

“My father always said, 'A voteless people is a powerless people,' and one of the most important steps we can take is the short step to the ballot box,” said Martin Luther King III. on Friday. “When Black voters are organized and engaged, we have the power to change the course of this nation.”

Harris' schedule reflects her campaign's commitment to treating every group of voters like a swing-state voter and trying to appeal to them all in a closely contested election with early voting underway.

On Saturday, the vice president rallied his supporters in Detroit with singer Lizzo before traveling to Atlanta to focus on abortion rights, highlighting the death of a Georgia mother amid the state's restrictive abortion laws following the Supreme Court's ruling USA came into force, with three judges nominated Donald Trump has overturned Roe v. Wade.

And after her Sunday push, She will campaign with former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. in the suburbs of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

“Donald Trump still refuses to take responsibility, no responsibility at all, for the pain and suffering he has caused,” Harris said.

Harris is Baptist, his husband Doug Emhoff is Jewish. She said she was inspired by the work of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and influenced by the religious traditions of her mother's homeland of India, as well as the Black Church. As a child, Harris sang in the choir at Twenty Third Avenue Church of God in Oakland.

“Faith is a verb. We show it in action and in worship,” she said on Instagram last week while attending services at a church in Greenville, North Carolina.

The idea of ​​“Souls to the polls” goes back to the civil rights movement. The Rev George Leea black entrepreneur from Mississippi, was killed by white supremacists in 1955 after helping nearly 100 black residents register to vote in the town of Belzoni. The cemetery where Lee is buried served as a polling station.

Black parishes There have been election campaigns across the country for years. Partly to counter voter suppression tactics that date back to the Jim Crow era, early voting in the black community is emphasized almost as much by pulpits as by candidates.

In Georgia, Early voting began on Tuesday, with more than 310,000 voting People voted that day, more than twice as many as on the first day of 2020. A record 5 million people voted in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.