Vice President Kamala Harris will “barnstorm” through all seven battleground states between Halloween and Election Day to close out the presidential race, her campaign said Thursday.
Ms. Harris will start out West, visiting Arizona and Nevada for rallies in Phoenix, Reno and Las Vegas, before heading to Wisconsin on Friday for rallies in Appleton and Milwaukee.
Ms. Harris is in a dead heat with former President Donald Trump. The race will likely be decided by tens of thousands of votes in the seven swing states that Ms. Harris is visiting.
The vice president will stop Saturday in Atlanta as part of the battle to keep Georgia in the blue column after President Biden won it in 2020.
She will head to North Carolina later Saturday for a rally in Charlotte, the heart of the Mecklenburg County region that could determine whether she wins the state for Democrats for the first time since 2008.
The campaign said Ms. Harris would stop in Michigan on Sunday and Pennsylvania on Monday.
Ms. Harris is working to keep up with Mr. Trump’s constant presence on the campaign trail and in the media.
The Republican nominee will look to expand the electoral map by rallying in New Mexico, a state that has shifted blue in recent years, on Thursday before heading to Nevada.
Mr. Trump will sprint through Michigan and Wisconsin on Friday and North Carolina and Virginia on Saturday.
In recent days, both candidates used huge events to make their closing arguments, though they were dogged by distractions.
Mr. Trump offered a “message of hope” to Madison Square Garden, saying he would end inflation and stop the flow of illegal immigrants into the country. Instead, everyone talked about an insulting joke against Puerto Rico by one of his warm-up comedians.
Ms. Harris urged Americans to move on from Mr. Trump and the MAGA era in a huge rally on the Ellipse in Washington, though it was overshadowed by Mr. Biden calling Trump supporters “garbage.”
The White House said Mr. Biden was referring to speakers at MSG, but the damage was done, with Mr. Trump donning a sanitation worker’s uniform and climbing in a garbage truck to rally his supporters.
• Tom Howell Jr. can be reached at thowell@washingtontimes.com.
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