Vice President Kamala Harris will hold a rally in Pennsylvania on Tuesday to announce her running mate.
This will be Harris’ first visit to Pennsylvania as a Democratic presidential candidate since winning the nomination on Monday. This visit is also her seventh visit to the Commonwealth this year and her 17th visit since being sworn in as Vice President in 2021.
During the event, Harris will introduce her running mate, although it’s unclear who that person is. She has reportedly narrowed her choices to two candidates: Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
The Harris campaign is touting enthusiasm in Pennsylvania, saying more than 33,000 people have signed up to volunteer for the campaign in the state in the past 15 days, according to a press release signed by Jack Doyle, Pennsylvania’s communications director. The campaign has nearly 300 staff members in 36 offices, including swing counties such as Erie, Luzerne and Northampton. The campaign said it is also working to make inroads into historically Republican areas in Union, Lancaster and York counties.
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The campaign also said Harris was “on a speaking tour” in Pennsylvania while her main opponent in the November election, former President Trump, was “trying to keep up.” The report stated that Trump’s campaign “has only three offices in Pennsylvania, is far behind in the infrastructure needed to win” and “has shown that he does not want these voters.”
On July 13, Trump survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and said he would return there for another rally in the future. He held a rally in Harrisburg last week.
The vice president wants to draw a contrast between herself and the former Pennsylvania president, with her campaign saying she is “fighting for our freedoms, our democracy, and our economy to give everyone the opportunity to not only get by, but to progress.” Chance”. “Trump’s toxic Plan 2025 agenda will set our country back by enacting a national abortion ban, raising costs for the middle class, and giving Trump virtually unlimited power.
Project 2025 is a controversial initiative organized by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and written by many conservatives, including some former Trump administration officials.
The initiative would provide Trump with right-wing policy proposals if he wins the presidency, including replacing civil servants with Trump loyalists, abolishing the Department of Education, criminalizing pornography, eliminating DEI programs, and cutting Medicaid. and Medicare funding, rejecting abortion as health care and injecting Christian values into government.
Trump has been trying Keep a distance from the initiative, The plan was criticized as authoritarian and Christian nationalist and would harm civil liberties, saying he knew nothing about it, that parts of it were “absolutely ridiculous and terrible” and that its supporters belonged to the “radical right”.
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This is the first presidential election since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, giving states the power to enact their own abortion laws. The Harris campaign cited polls showing a majority of Pennsylvania voters support some abortion.
“Vice President Harris will ensure that women once again have the right to make decisions about their bodies,” her campaign said in a press release. In Pennsylvania, “that contrast is going to be front and center here.”
The Harris campaign also said that the Trump administration caused the loss of more than 275,000 jobs in Pennsylvania, including thousands of manufacturing jobs, and led to record unemployment.
According to the report, Harris and President Biden inherited an economy that was “in chaos” under Trump, but she helped create more than 500,000 jobs in Pennsylvania and limited the cost of prescription drugs on the health insurance of millions of Pennsylvania residents.
Harris’ campaign, touting her previous experience as a prosecutor in California, said she was committed to keeping communities safe and arresting dangerous liars, criminals and predators. The campaign said murder rates in Pennsylvania, especially Philadelphia, soared during the Trump administration, and that Harris “took on the gun lobby and helped lead to a historic decline in violent crime.”
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event at Westover High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on July 18, 2024. (Alison Joyce/AFP via Getty Images)
“If Trump is re-elected, he will again court the NRA and make it easier for weapons to get into the hands of convicted criminals,” the campaign said in a news release.
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The campaign also highlighted the electoral losses Trump and his supported candidates suffered in Pennsylvania in 2018, 2020 and 2022. Oz lost to incumbent Democratic Sen. John Fetterman in 2022.
“Republicans are also losing ground in every corner of the Commonwealth as reproductive freedoms and protecting our democracy are front and center with voters,” the Harris campaign said in a press release. Two months later, reasonable Republicans across the Commonwealth continue to reject Trump, with more than 158,000 people voting against Trump in the Pennsylvania Republican primary.”
