Harris will team up with perhaps two of the most popular Democrats in the country next week, as the 2024 race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump comes to a close.
Harris' campaign announced Friday that the vice president will join former President Barack Obama and his wife, former first lady Michelle Obama, at voting events in two of the seven battleground states, Georgia and Michigan.
According to her campaign, Harris will team up with the Obamas in Georgia on Thursday, October 24th. Early voting began earlier this week in the Southeast, a key battleground region, and immediately set new records.
Harris' advisers also said the vice president would join forces again on the campaign trail in Michigan on Saturday, October 26, when early voting begins across the state in the key battleground Great Lakes.
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Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama appear on stage between speeches during the second night of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Tuesday, August 20, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll) Call, Inc (via Getty Images) (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
This will be the first time Harris has teamed up with Obama on a campaign campaign since she replaced President Biden as the top Democrat on the 2024 ticket about three months ago.
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The Obamas, longtime friends of Harris's, formally endorsed her as a presidential candidate in July, five days after Biden's blockbuster announcement that he was withdrawing his bid for re-election and endorsing his vice president.
The former president and first lady made back-to-back headline speeches at the Democratic National Convention in their hometown of Chicago in August to make Harris' case.
Former President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event supporting Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on October 10, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Reuters/Quinn Grabicki (Reuters/Quinn Grabicki)
And a week ago, the former president traveled to Pennsylvania, where Harris is campaigning, perhaps the most important of the seven battleground states that will determine the outcome of the presidential election.
The former president plans to return to the campaign trail in the coming days with stops in Tucson, Arizona, Las Vegas, Nevada, Detroit, Michigan, and Madison, Wisconsin.
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The race for the White House is close, and both Harris and Trump's campaigns are desperately trying to woo voters and drive them to the polls. Approximately 40 states currently offer early voting, absentee voting, and mail-in voting. All over the country.
The Harris campaign will utilize these campaign events to increase enthusiasm among voters supporting the vice president in order to conduct voting ahead of Election Day on November 5th, and will also involve volunteers to increase voter turnout. aims to promote
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States have long allowed at least some Americans, such as military members and the sick, to vote early. In 2020, many states expanded eligibility as the COVID-19 pandemic made in-person voting more risky.
A Fox News voter analysis from that year found that 71% of voters voted before Election Day, 30% voted early in person and 41% voted by mail.
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Early voting remained popular in the midterm elections, with 57% of voters voting before Election Day.
Fox News Digital’s Kellianne Jones and Rémy Numa contributed to this report.
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