{"id":33778,"date":"2024-08-21T22:35:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T02:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=33778"},"modified":"2024-08-22T11:15:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T15:15:41","slug":"tensley-12-writes-about-the-kind-of-electorate-harris-is-attracting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/tensley-12-writes-about-the-kind-of-electorate-harris-is-attracting\/","title":{"rendered":"Tensley &#8217;12 writes about the kind of electorate Harris is attracting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Tensley, national politics reporter for <a href=\"https:\/\/capitalbnews.org\/kamala-harris-obama-coalition\/\">Capital B<\/a>, wrote a column about Vice President Kamala Harris and the electorate she is mobilizing for the presidential election. Tensley, a 2012 Furman University German studies and political science graduate, said Harris is &#8220;drawing new energy from the kind of diverse electorate that boosted Barack Obama to victory.&#8221; Tensley said Obama sailed into the White House in 2008\u00a0by &#8220;assembling a wide coalition of voters who were at the time the most diverse electorate ever, attracting nonwhite and younger voters in droves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Formerly a CNN Politics reporter, Tensley holds a master\u2019s in politics from the University of Oxford. He\u00a0was also a Luce Scholar in Thailand and a Fulbright Scholar in Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Tensley &#8217;12 said Harris is mounting a campaign reminiscent of Barack Obama&#8217;s 2008 run in which he tapped a diverse range of voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":23464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1919,6,16,32],"tags":[2976,2975,411],"class_list":["post-33778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capital-b","category-in-the-news","category-modern-languages-and-literature","category-politics-and-international-affairs","tag-barack-obama","tag-electorate","tag-kamala-harris"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33778"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33783,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33778\/revisions\/33783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}