Kamala Harris To Name Vice President Pick Later Today
Every route to the White House passes through a few swing states. Harris will begin her five-day campaign in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, the largest state, to gain momentum for her November 5 meeting with Republican Donald Trump.
“This election is a fight for our country, our future, and our most fundamental freedoms and rights.
“We believe in the promise of America—and we’re in this fight because we know what’s at stake,” the message she posted on X reads.
The nation’s first female, Black, and South Asian vice president, who just secured enough delegates’ votes to win the Democratic nomination, will be fully in charge of her party going into the national convention in Chicago in two weeks.
The 59-year-old career prosecutor has destroyed funding records, drawn sizable audiences, and controlled social media in just two weeks of campaigning. She has also erased the polling leads Trump had accumulated before President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race.
The vice presidential candidate will be announced at any time before her rally on Tuesday night in Philadelphia, the capital of Pennsylvania, with the unidentified nominee.
Among the hotly contested states that determine the Electoral College, the Keystone State is the most valuable real estate. Along with Michigan and Wisconsin, two states where Harris is scheduled to address large crowds on Wednesday, it is a component of the “blue wall” that propelled Biden to the White House in 2020.
The 51-year-old Democrat Josh Shapiro, who is leading the “veepstakes” field that also includes US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, and fellow state governors Tim Walz and Andy Beshear, is the governor of Pennsylvania.
In an effort to win back the Black and Hispanic votes that the Democrats had been losing, Kamala Harris will go through the Sun Belt and the southern states of Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, and North Carolina later this week.
