Both Trump and Harris are using hallmark tactics on the campaign trail to establish themselves as the front-runner across the country, focusing especially intently on critical states.
In the final weeks leading up to Election Day, Democrats are trying to shift the political landscape against Donald Trump, and former US President Barack Obama intends to assist Kamala Harris’ campaign in Pennsylvania, a swing state that they absolutely must win.
On Thursday, the first Black president of the United States will lead a rally in Pittsburgh, the nation’s steel hub, as part of a tour of crucial states encouraging voters to cast early ballots for the election in November.
Harris traveled to Nevada on Thursday for a town hall and will be in Arizona on Friday in an effort to engage Latino voters. However, the White House claimed that she had also participated in an online briefing regarding Hurricane Milton, which made landfall in Florida Sunday night.
Trump, a former president and Republican candidate, increased the vitriol he directed at Harris and Joe Biden about their handling of the catastrophe.
Greetings from Trump’s home state of Florida, “Hopefully on January 20 you’re going to have somebody who’s really going to help you,” he added in a video message.
‘All hands on deck,’ says Obama
In a race that is still deadlocked, Democrats are hopeful Obama, who served as president from 2009 to 2017 prior to Trump’s term, may help Harris.
Even after Harris unexpectedly overtook Biden as the Democratic nominee in July and raised an estimated $1 billion in funding, Harris and Trump are still almost even both nationally and in battleground states.
“President Obama believes this is an all hands on deck moment which is why he’ll be doing everything he can to help elect Vice President Harris,” said the White House.
Republicans have never supported early voting more than Democrats have.
Meanwhile, Trump has frequently claimed that the use of mail-in votes contributed to Biden’s victory in 2020.
Obama, who is still quite powerful in the Democratic Party, promptly endorsed Harris,59, following Biden’s withdrawal of his reelection campaign.
