WASHINGTON (TNND) — The left-leaning British Labour Party is sending nearly 100 members to U.S. battleground states to campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the presidential election.
Sofia Patel, head of operations for the Labour Party, shared the plans via LinkedIn Wednesday. She claimed current and former party staff will target key swing states like North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
“I have 10 spots available for anyone available to head to the battleground state of North Carolina – we will sort your housing,” Patel offered in the post.
Patel also noted she plans to arrive in the U.S. two weeks prior to the election and stay in Washington, D.C., for a few days afterward.
Patel’s profile shows she previously spent time in the Hillary Clinton campaign from October to November of 2016. She included the description “travelled to the US to campaign for Clinton in the presidential election.”
Reacting to Patel’s post was Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who suggested via X it was “yet another reason to vote for President Trump.”
Other members of the Labour Party appear to be invested in the outcome of the November election. The party’s Chief Operating Officer John Lehal attended the August Democratic National Convention in Chicago, according to several posts on his LinkedIn and X accounts.
Party strategists for the U.K.’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer have been advising the Harris campaign, according to the Washington Post. Starmer, who also leveraged his background as a former prosecutor, marked a major victory for the Labour Party in the country’s July election.
The Harris campaign appears to be mirroring much of Starmer’s language in its slogans and advertisements. The Labour Party attacked conservatives with slogans like “stop the chaos” and “turn the page” while Harris has used language like “we’re not going back” and “it’s time to turn the page.”
Neither the Harris campaign, the Labour Party nor the Democratic National Convention responded to requests for comment sent via email by The National News Desk Thursday.
Harris has recently recruited Democratic superstars to campaign for her, such as former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Each are visiting swing states with less than one month until the U.S. elects its next president.
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