All paths to the White Home run via a handful of swing states, and Harris will kick off her five-day run Tuesday within the largest — Pennsylvania — as she builds momentum for her showdown with Republican Donald Trump on November 5.
At this second, we face a alternative between two visions for our nation: one targeted on the long run and the opposite on the previous.
Together with your assist, I’m combating for our nation’s future.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 2, 2024
Contemporary from profitable sufficient delegate votes to safe the Democratic nomination, the nation’s first feminine, Black and South Asian vp heads into the nationwide conference in Chicago in two weeks in complete management of her social gathering.
In a marketing campaign that’s barely two weeks outdated, the 59-year-old former prosecutor has obliterated fundraising data, attracted enormous crowds and dominated social media on her approach to erasing the polling leads Trump had constructed earlier than President Joe Biden stop the race.
Subsequent on the agenda is a vice presidential choose, with an announcement anticipated any time earlier than her rally Tuesday (6) night alongside the thriller nominee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s largest metropolis.
The Keystone State is essentially the most prized actual property among the many intently fought battlegrounds that resolve the Electoral School system.
It’s a part of the “blue wall” that carried Biden to the White Home in 2020, alongside Michigan and Wisconsin — two states the place Harris is because of woo crowds on Wednesday (7).
Pennsylvania is ruled by 51-year-old Democrat Josh Shapiro, a frontrunner within the so-called “veepstakes” shortlist that additionally contains fellow state governors Tim Walz and Andy Beshear, in addition to Arizona Senator Mark Kelly and US transport secretary Pete Buttigieg.
Later within the week, Harris will tour the extra racially various Solar Belt and southern states of Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and North Carolina, as she seeks to shore up the Black and Hispanic vote that had been peeling away from the Democrats.
Only a month in the past, Trump was in cruise management, having opened a big lead in swing state polling after a dismal debate efficiency by Biden, with the Republican tycoon maintaining the nation in suspense over his personal vice-presidential choose.
Trump’s White Home bid was upended on July 21 when 81-year-old Biden, going through rising considerations about his age and lagging polling numbers, exited the race and backed Harris.
Energetic and 20 years youthful than 78-year-old Trump, the vp has made a quick begin, elevating $310 million in July, in keeping with her marketing campaign — greater than double Trump’s haul.
Whereas Biden made high-minded appeals for a return to civility and the preservation of democracy, Harris has targeted on the long run, making voters’ hard-fought “freedom” the touchstone of her marketing campaign.
She and her allies have additionally been extra aggressive than the Biden camp — mocking Trump for reneging on his dedication to a September 10 debate and characterizing the convicted felon as an aged criminal and “bizarre.”
Whereas she has disavowed a number of the leftist positions she took throughout her ill-fated 2020 major marketing campaign, Harris hasn’t given a wide-ranging interview since leaping into the race, and rally-goers will search for extra element on her plans for the nation.
In the meantime Trump and his Republicans have struggled to adapt to their new adversary or hone their assaults in opposition to Harris — at first messaging that she was dangerously liberal on immigration and crime, earlier than suggesting she was mendacity about being Black.