The World Forum - November 4th, 2024

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Could battleground states be decided from … Canada?

 


When former President Donald Trump falsely proclaimed online last month that Democrats were “getting ready to cheat” by mailing ballots to voters overseas, Bruce Heyman couldn’t hold back his excitement.

A former U.S. ambassador to Canada under President Barack Obama, Heyman is now leading an effort to canvass and turn out American voters living north of the border to support Democrats. He is convinced that in a close election, Americans in Canada could make the difference.

To Heyman, Trump’s outburst looked like an admission the Republican nominee agrees.

“There’s zero chance Donald Trump used that language himself,” Heyman told POLITICO in Montreal in late September, shortly after Trump made the post. “It came out of the campaign. The campaign recognizes how many Americans live abroad and the effort we’re putting forth, and they can’t compete against it.”

The presidential race is so tight that Democrats are going door knocking in Windsor, Ontario, in search of American voters to tip the balance for Kamala Harris.

Anywhere he gets the chance, Heyman makes his case to get out the vote from Canada: in media interviews at the Democratic National Convention, in talks with university students at Concordia and the University of Toronto, or on a global Zoom call for Harris-Walz — one of the Democrats’ online telethons that featured such celebrities as Lynda Carter and Jane Fonda.

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