Beginning on Sunday, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will go on a bus trip through Pennsylvania to obtain 19 electoral votes before to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
This coming Sunday, presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her running partner, governor of Minnesota Tim Walz, will travel through Pennsylvania by bus in an attempt to secure the 19 electoral votes that the state offers. Just three days remain until the Democratic National Convention in Chicago when this trip takes place.
Pennsylvania has been given priority by the Harris-Walz ticket, as seen by their decision to have their first rally in Philadelphia, the state’s largest city, not long after Walz was named as Harris’ running mate. The two have been traveling the battleground states nonstop since then.
Over $212 million has been spent on advertisements in seven important battleground states since Joe Biden withdrew from the campaign; $70.6 million of that amount has been spent in Pennsylvania alone.
Harris Campaign focuses on grassroots events
The bus trip, which begins in Pittsburgh on Sunday, will be the first time that Harris, Walz, and their spouses—first lady Gwen Walz of Minnesota and second gentleman Doug Emhoff of Minnesota—will campaign together since their joint appearance in Philadelphia last week. To establish a more personal connection with voters, the campaign will concentrate the trip on small-scale, grassroots activities like canvass kick-offs and visits to neighborhood businesses.
With thirty-three staff people already stationed in Pennsylvania and thirty-six coordinated offices, the Harris campaign has made a major impact there.
This year, Harris has traveled to the state seven times, demonstrating how crucial it is to her campaign approach.
Since Harris declared her candidacy last month, 43,000 individuals in Pennsylvania have signed up to help her campaign, demonstrating the campaign’s robust volunteer network.
Looking beyond Pennsylvania, it has been reported that the Harris campaign is organizing a rally for Tuesday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which is only 90 miles away from the Democratic convention in Chicago. Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan are states that are part of the Democratic Party’s vital “blue wall”—a group of states that were won by Donald Trump in 2016 but lost to Joe Biden in 2020.
On the other hand, a campaign event is set to take place on Saturday in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. This will be his second trip to the state after he escaped an attempted murder in Butler, a hamlet an hour north of Pittsburgh, on July 13.
