Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to campaign in Michigan and Wisconsin on Thursday as he travels more to states up for election in preparation for the traditional Labor Day campaign.
Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, will sit down for their first major television interview of their presidential campaign on Thursday, as the duo travels by bus through southeast Georgia.
The interview with CNN’s Dana Bash will give Harris a chance to suppress criticism that she avoids uncontrolled environments.
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Donald Trump is scheduled to campaign in Michigan and Wisconsin on Thursday, as the former president travels more to states crucial to the Labor Day election.
Trump is focused on regaining states he won in 2016 but narrowly lost in 2020, with stops in central Michigan and western Wisconsin.
Trump’s day begins with an afternoon rally in Potterville, Michigan, near the state capital of Lansing. Trump won Eaton County, where part of Lansing is located, in both 2016 and 2020, but by a narrower margin the second time around.
He will later visit La Crosse, Wisconsin, for a town hall led by former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who supported him in Detroit. It will be Trump’s first visit to Wisconsin since the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, will sit down for their first major television interview of their presidential campaign on Thursday, as the duo travels by bus through southeast Georgia.
The interview with CNN’s Dana Bash will give Harris a chance to suppress criticism that she has shunned uncontrolled environments, while also giving her a new platform to define her campaign and test her political mettle ahead of an upcoming debate with former President Donald Trump scheduled for Sept. 10. But it also comes with risks as her team tries to build on the momentum of the ticket reshuffle following Joe Biden’s departure and last week’s Democratic National Convention.
Joint interviews during an election year are a fixture of politics; Biden and Harris, Trump and Mike Pence, Barack Obama and Biden — they all did them at similar points in the race.