Vice President Kamala Harris is spending Saturday night in Raleigh before she heads east tomorrow for a campaign rally in Greenville.
Harris is expected to arrive at Raleigh-Durham International Airport at around 5:45 p.m. Saturday, according to a schedule released by her office late Friday.
The schedule did not provide any details about what Harris will be doing while in Raleigh. Sunday morning, she’ll fly to Greenville for the rally her campaign announced earlier this week. Harris is expected to speak there at 4:40 p.m. before returning to Washington later in the evening.
Harris is spending the weekend in North Carolina, one of seven major battleground states she and former President Donald Trump have been crisscrossing in recent weeks, and rallying supporters in Greenville tomorrow, ahead of the start of early voting here, which begins Thursday and runs through Nov. 2.
Election Day is just 24 days away.
As part of her outreach in Eastern North Carolina, Harris is also tapping former President Bill Clinton to stump for her. Clinton will embark on a bus tour of the region targeting “hard-to-reach” rural voters between Oct. 17 and 20.
He’s expected to appear at small-scale events like “local fairs and porch rallies,” and will focus on the economy, CNN reported earlier this week.
Saturday’s visit to Raleigh is the first official campaign visit for Harris since Tropical Storm Helene struck Western North Carolina in late September. A week ago, on Oct. 5, Harris visited Charlotte where she met with Gov. Roy Cooper and received an update on relief efforts, and helped volunteers assemble care packages.
Trump, the Republican nominee for president, held a town hall in Fayetteville on Oct. 4, where he blasted the Biden administration’s response to the storm.
As of Friday, the RealClearPolitics polling average showed that Trump has a very slim lead over Harris in North Carolina. The state has only supported Democratic presidential candidates twice in the last 50 years — former President Jimmy Carter in 1976 and for former President Barack Obama in 2008.
Harris and Trump, and their vice presidential picks — Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance — have included the Tar Heel state in multiple campaign stops this year.
Those visits have been ramping up in the last few weeks, with Vance holding a town hall Thursday with voters in Greensboro. He is also expected to attend the Bank of America ROVAL 400 race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday, according to WCNC Charlotte. This will be Vance’s third visit to Charlotte in less than a month.
On Saturday, the Trump campaign announced that Vance will hold a rally in Wilmington on Wednesday.
Walz has not returned to North Carolina since Helene.
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