In the days since Kamala Harris entered the presidential race, there's been a seemingly endless stream of impromptu organizing calls seeking to raise money and spread enthusiasm for the vice president's nascent candidacy.

First was Black women for Harris, then Black men, white women, LGBTQ+, South Asian Americans and more, including most recently, a call entitled "White Dudes for Harris," which saw celebrities like Jeff Bridges come together with Democratic power players like Pete Buttigieg to raise more than $4 million for the vice president's campaign.

There's even now VCsForKamala, a group of more than 100 venture capitalists, including billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, pledging support for Harris.

On Wednesday, a new group is joining the ranks: Dads for Kamala, organized in part by California Rep. Jimmy Gomez, a lawmaker who launched the Congressional Dads Caucus after going viral for wearing his infant son in a baby carrier on his chest during the seemingly endless rounds of voting for House speaker in January of last year.

“If we want to have a government and a president that focuses on family issues, paid family, affordable childcare, you know, the enhanced child tax credit, everything else, then dads need to step up," Gomez told Spectrum News. "We can't just let the moms for Kamala or the or the young people for Kamala or the white dudes for Kamala. Dads need to step up, and that's what it's about."

Gomez, who chairs the Dads Caucus and its political arm, the Dads PAC, is a Harris surrogate who is helping to rally support for the vice president's campaign in the sprint toward November's election.

After she announced her campaign, Gomez and the Dads PAC endorsed Harris, calling her "the strongest advocate for paid leave, affordable child care and the Child Tax Credit to ever run for president."

“She really represents a background, like a lot of families here that are working class and understands what it means to struggle, but also understands that, our diversity is our strength, and when we kind of touch upon that diversity that we can make great things happen.”

The organizing call also comes in the wake of comments from Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, describing Harris and other leaders in the Democratic Party as “a bunch of childless cat ladies.” (Harris is the stepmother of Cole and Ella Emhoff, second gentleman Doug Emhoff’s children from his first marriage.)

“A lot of that attacks from the right are coming from people who are saying that she's not a mom because she's a stepmom. We call B.S. on that, or [that] she doesn't know the struggles of working parents. We know that that's not true,” argued Gomez. “I worked with her on paid family leave at the state level. She gets it.”

One dad who tells us he plans to support Harris in November is Kevin Seldon, a dad and podcast host of the popular parenting podcast ‘Dad I’d Like to Friend.’ He called comments “dismiss someone because they didn't give birth to their child” like Vance’s “gross.” 

“I think that now is a very important time to get our country back in order and to create a sense of calm so that we, as parents, can be focused on our families and not on the chaos of the outside world,” said Seldon. “I think it's so important to have a candidate that not only understands, but has actually made a point to talk about things like paid leave for all, or things like affordable childcare, or who is going to exemplify the breaking of gender stereotypes, which is what we so need within the parenting space.”

Seldon, whose son Wyatt turns 6 next month, said he realized how isolating it can be as a new parent when he stayed at home while his wife went back to work. He started the podcast and All Parents Welcome, a national coalition of parents, to create a community for those raising kids, whether they gave birth to the child or not.

Seldon said he’s actually excited to potentially have a chief executive who understands what it’s like to raise a child as a non-birthing parent.

“There are a lot more people in the parenting space than just birthing moms, and birthing moms deserve to be celebrated, but they also need more support. And so the more support we can give to non-birthing parents like Ms. Harris, the more support we can really give [support] to non-birthing parents.”

“Most importantly, Vice President Harris, I think, is the most likely candidate to focus on many of the issues that parents really need right now, which is more affordable child care and paid leave for all.” 

Gomez says that fellow Dads Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will participate in the Dads for Kamala call, which will kick off at 8:30 p.m. ET.