Vice President Harris is headed to Wisconsin on Tuesday for her first rally since securing the delegate count needed for the Democratic presidential nomination, where she plans to rail against former President Trump and boast about her massive fundraising.
Harris will hold a rally in Milwaukee, marking her first campaign stop in Wisconsin, which hosted the Republican National Convention last week, and her fifth visit this year to Wisconsin, a state that is likely to be a must-win for her to win the presidential election in November.
The vice president arrives in the Badger State riding high on momentum: Her campaign raised more than $100 million between Sunday afternoon, when President Biden said he would not seek reelection, and Monday night. More than 1.1 million individual donors contributed to the campaign.
Harris will be joined at Tuesday’s event by a number of Wisconsin officials, including Governor Tony Evers (D), Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D), Lt. Governor Sara Rodriguez (D), Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson (D) and Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Ben Wikler.
All of those officials have endorsed Harris, including Baldwin, who faces a tough re-election campaign in November.
The Harris campaign boasts that it has 48 field offices across the state, with about 160 full-time staffers on the ground outreach to voters.
Harris previewed how she plans to position herself in the race against Trump in a speech at her campaign headquarters in Delaware on Monday, comparing her record as a prosecutor to Trump’s many legal challenges and highlighting her support for abortion rights, gun control laws and voting rights.
“In the coming months, I will travel the nation to speak to Americans on all the issues at stake,” Harris said in a statement after winning the nomination. “We will unite our party and our country to defeat Donald Trump in November.”
