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Left-wing groups have begun door-to-door campaigning on the University of Michigan’s main campus in Ann Arbor, hoping to attract new voters to Democrat Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign in a key swing state.

The New York PosIt was reported that a Super PAC called NextGen America recently set up a table called “The Diag” on Michigan’s center lawn.

Founded by liberal billionaire Tom Steyer, NextGen America seeks to mobilize young voters to fight “climate change, racial injustice, economic inequality” and “save democracy itself.”

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Another person with a clipboard told the post that he was a member of a Super PAC called Forward Majority, whose website states: “Our democracy is in crisis as Republicans wage a systematic attack on voting rights and fair elections.”

Alaina Smith, a student from out of state, described being approached several times by people asking her to register to vote in Michigan.

“I’ve been asked several times,” Smith said. “And I tell them I still vote in my hometown. I have vested interests and am more aware and informed of the issues in my own home state.”

Michigan will likely be one of the most decisive swing states in the 2024 election. The Public Affairs Council predicted earlier this year that Michigan is one of three swing states, along with Ohio and Nevada, that will likely decide the entire election.

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Lawrence Kestenbaum, an official in Washtenaw County, home to Ann Arbor, described how people from other states can register to vote in Michigan.

“If someone lives here or is present, if they want to be a Michigan voter, in general, if they are a U.S. citizen and so on, they can be,” he said, according to the post.

According to a Michigan Daily Newspaper According to a poll conducted during the 2020 election cycle, UMich students are overwhelmingly liberal. In response to the poll, 42.8 percent of students described themselves as “very liberal” and another 33 percent as “somewhat liberal.”

Comparatively few described themselves as conservative: only 7.7 percent described themselves as “rather conservative” and 3.8 percent as “very conservative.”

Campus reform has contacted the University of Michigan for comment. This article will be updated accordingly.

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