Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz arrive to a campaign event on August 18, 2024 in Pittsburgh. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign is launching a voter mobilization drive across Pennsylvania this weekend, with Election Day now just 60 days out and the first presidential debate Tuesday in Philadelphia.
The campaign will host some 500 events including canvass launches, phone banks, trainings, and community events, with some national Democrats visiting the state to assist. The push will include a focus on Project 2025, which Democrats have linked to GOP nominee, former President Donald Trump, who has tried to distance himself from the conservative policy agenda. U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) met with Delaware County voters on Friday to kick off the weekend events, in Pennsylvania, and second gentleman Doug Emhoff will be in Allentown on Saturday and Norristown on Sunday.
More than 7,500 people have signed up to volunteer for weekend events, the campaign said, for its largest statewide organizing push of the election cycle so far.
Pennsylvania, if you haven’t heard, is the must-win battleground state in the 2024 election, with its 19 electoral votes up for grabs. Trump carried the state in 2016, and President Joe Biden won here in 2020. Biden bowed out of his reelection bid in July and endorsed Harris, which has given Democrats a boost in fundraising and in public momentum.
Harris and Biden rallied in Pittsburgh on Labor Day, and she is in Pittsburgh this weekend preparing for the debate. Her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz visited Lancaster, Pittsburgh and Erie this week, while Trump was in Harrisburg Wednesday to tape an interview with Sean Hannity. His running mate. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) was in Erie last week.
It is most assuredly not the last the Keystone State has seen of the candidates as the election draws closer.
The Trump campaign announced earlier this week it was launching “the most extensive surrogate operation in the history of presidential politics,” titled the Team Trump Agenda 47 Policy Tour, with campaign surrogates promoting Trump’s platform in battleground states. The campaign held events in Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin but has not yet announced Pennsylvania dates for the policy tour
The latest polling finds Trump and Harris in a statistical tie in Pennsylvania.
