Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris opens a two-day stay in Wisconsin and Michigan, and Republican candidate Donald Trump will be in Michigan on Thursday as the two candidates battle for victories in the “blue wall” battleground states, which include Pennsylvania.
Liz Cheney, one of Trump’s fiercest Republican opponents, will join Harris on Thursday at a campaign event in Wisconsin aimed at reaching moderate voters and riling up the former president.
Cheney it was the highest-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives committee that investigated the case January 6, 2021, uprisingearning Trump’s scorn and effectively exiling herself from her own party.
Cheney lost her seat in Wyoming to a Trump-backed candidate two years ago and she supported Harris last month. The two women will appear together at a historic white schoolhouse in Ripon, where a series of meetings in 1854 to oppose the expansion of slavery led to the birth of the Republican Party.
Harris’ visit to Wisconsin comes a day later a federal judge dissolved a 165-page court filing outlining prosecutors’ case against Trump over his attempt to overturn his 2020 election defeat. Trump has denied guilty of conspiracy and obstruction charges.
Harris will hold a campaign rally in Flint, Michigan, on Friday and continue her tour of states that have been crucial to Democrats’ victories. Trump won Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan in 2016, and Joe Biden won them in 2020.
Trump will hold a rally on Thursday in Saginaw County, a city in the center of the state.
The Republican candidate has increased his focus on Michigan, holding two rallies there less than a week ago. In 2020, Biden’s victory in Saginaw County contributed to his victory in the state by just under 303 votes.
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President Joe Biden said Thursday he was not concerned that the 2024 presidential race between Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump was close
“It’s always so close,” he told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, on his way to a visit to storm-ravaged Georgia and Florida. “She’s doing well,” he said of his vice president.
Biden was also asked how Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, fared in the vice presidential debate.
“The other guy lost the debate,” Biden said. “He misrepresented everything.”
The devastation caused by Hurricane Helene has brought climate change to the forefront of the presidential campaign after the issue languished on the margins for months.
Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Georgia on Wednesday to tour hard-hit areas, two days after her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, was in the state and criticized the federal response to the storm, which has left fatalities. minimum 180 people. Thousands of people in the Carolinas still lack running water, cell phone service and electricity.
President Joe Biden visited some of the hardest-hit areas by helicopter on Wednesday. Biden, who has often been called to survey damage and comfort victims after tornadoes, wildfires, tropical storms and other natural disasters, traveled to the Carolinas to a closer look at the hurricane’s devastation. He is expected to visit Georgia and Florida later this week.