CHICAGO (CBS) – The Democratic National Convention may be over, but that doesn’t mean everyone went home on Friday.
Some stayed a little longer to explore the city outside of McCormick Place and the United Center.
On Friday, there were a few stragglers in Chicago after the DNC ended. Volunteers enjoyed a few more sights and sounds of the city before heading home and getting back to work.
“We really need to focus on these swing states,” says Nancy Lindsay, a volunteer from Seattle.
Lindsay and her friend and fellow convention volunteer Nancy Riverland took a stroll down Michigan Avenue before heading home to Seattle and San Francisco.
“We have to give it our all in this election. Our lead is very small right now,” Lindsay said. “Every vote counts, so we have to do everything we can to get voters out to vote.”
The two donated their time to the DNC this week.
Lindsay said they “worked with accessibility and it was great. We worked with delegates and other VIPs, walked into the hall and saw the speakers, the energy was just incredible. I think the energy was the biggest highlight.”
They plan to continue their work after returning to their home states and are starting with the postcards they received at the conference.
“We are distributing postcards to registered voters in swing states to remind them to vote,” Riverland said.
Voter canvassing trips are also under discussion; Laya DeLeon Hayes, actress in the CBS series “The Equalizer,” also has these plans.
“It might happen on Friday night that they say, ‘Hey, do you want to come to North Carolina on Saturday? Or do you want to come to Atlanta?'” she said. “It works something like that.”
This will be the first presidential election in which 20-year-old DeLeon Hayes will participate.
“I think the more we try to connect with Generation Z, the better it probably is because our voice is more crucial this year,” she said.
As a prominent surrogate and someone who supports a candidate through their own platform, she hopes to use her star status, as so many celebrities have done at the DNC, to keep the Harris campaign’s momentum going.
“Especially because I have a social media platform, I can communicate with my followers digitally and socially, which is also the great thing about being a surrogate,” said DeLeon Hayes.
While people who spoke to CBS News Chicago said they are ready to do whatever is necessary before November, they are still waiting for marching orders from the Harris-Waltz campaign team.
