Former President Barack Obama is coming to the aid of Vice President Kamala Harris in battleground states during the final stretch of the 2024 campaign.
A senior Harris campaign official told POLITICO on Friday that beginning next week, Obama will start a swing-state “blitz,” speaking at rallies in support of the Democratic nominee. Obama’s first appearance on the battleground state trail will be in the Pittsburgh area on Thursday, POLITICO reported. The former president is then expected to hit multiple Rust Belt and Sun Belt states.
Pennsylvania is considered one of the most important states for Harris and former President Donald Trump to win, and the current polling shows the candidates in a tie, according to RealClearPolitics. Obama’s visit to Pennsylvania will come just five days after Trump returns to Butler on Saturday to hold a rally at the site where he was shot in an…