US First Lady, Jill Biden will return to the campaign trail this week on a tour of battleground states to help boost Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Harris-Walz campaign and the White House announced that the First Lady will depart on Friday, October 11, 2024, on a five-day, five-state swing with stops in Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
The First Lady will start her upcoming campaign tour near the US-Mexico border in Yuma, Arizona, on Friday before campaigning in the Phoenix suburbs on Saturday.
She will then speak to voters in Carson City and Reno, Nevada, on Sunday before heading out to the Detroit suburbs in Michigan and Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday.
Jill Biden will round out the swing in the suburbs of Philadelphia on Tuesday, October 15, 2024.
The appearances will mark the First Lady’s return to campaigning. She had campaigned extensively for her husband, President Joe Biden, when he was running for reelection.
However, she pulled back after Biden folded his campaign and endorsed Harris to replace him on the Democratic ticket.
The Harris-Walz campaign stated that Jill Biden will highlight Harris’ vision for reproductive health care freedoms, strengthening democracy and ensuring people can not just get by, but get ahead.
With four weeks to go until Election Day, Harris’ campaign said that Jill Biden will be urging people to get out and vote.
The campaign noted that early voting is set to start Wednesday in Arizona and that mail ballots are going out in the five states that Jill Biden will be visiting.
Jill Biden has long been a forceful critic of former President Donald Trump, painting him as a threat to issues like democracy and reproductive rights, one of the animating issues for her in this campaign.
Her battleground tour from Friday to Tuesday coincides with fall break at the community college where she continues to teach.
Harris In The Middle Of A Media Blitz In New York
Meanwhile, Harris is in the middle of a media blitz in New York, with appearance at “The View” being the first of three stops.
Harris used her Tuesday appearance on “The View” to discuss her proposal to have Medicare cover in-home care for the elderly, helping to relieve the burden faced by an increasing number of families. “There are so many people in our country who are right in the middle. They’re taking care of their kids and taking care of their aging parents,” she said.
Harris criticized Trump as selfish and uninterested in helping Americans. She asserted that if one watches his rallies, “he does not talk about what your parents need, what your children need.”
Instead, Harris said, that he talks about his needs.
The Democratic presidential nominee is also scheduled to speak with radio host Howard Stern, and tape a show with late-night comedian Stephen Colbert.
The trio of appearances comes after Harris granted interviews to CBS’ “60 Minutes,” which aired Monday night, and Anderson’s Cooper’s podcast, which was released Sunday.
The blitz comes after Harris has largely avoided interviews since replacing President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket.
Long past the midway point of her unexpected presidential campaign and with voting already underway, Harris is still introducing herself to Americans who will determine her fate in this year’s presidential election.
Jennifer Harris, the former White House Senior Director of international economics, said that Harris has a steeper hill to climb because of the way she became the Democratic nominee. “We did not have a good long primary to meet Kamala Harris in the way most voters are accustomed to,” she said.
She suggested that Harris has to find a way to demonstrate the instincts and principles that will be guiding any number of hundreds of specific policy questions that will come up in the course of the presidency.
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