Vice President Harris is scheduled to hold a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday as her campaign seeks to ride a wave of grassroots enthusiasm that has grown in the week since she emerged as the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Harris rallied before thousands of voters, and campaign communications director Michael Tyler said she would “continue to lay out our vision for moving forward, not backward,” and “call on Georgians to take action to make their voices heard in November.”
Harris will be accompanied by Sens. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), as well as former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, a campaign official said in a conference call with reporters. Harris also plans to meet with local reproductive rights leaders and activists.
It will be Harris’ 15th visit to Georgia since she became vice president, but her first since President Biden announced he was stepping down as the party’s nominee ahead of the November election. Biden won the state by fewer than 12,000 votes in 2020, and campaign officials said they expect the race between Harris and former President Trump to be similarly tight.
The vice president’s campaign is looking to capitalize on the groundswell of support it has seen over the past week. Dan Kanninen, Harris’ campaign director of battleground operations, told reporters that the campaign has raised more than $200 million and signed up more than 170,000 new volunteers since Biden left office last Sunday.
Following a weekend of activities that saw them engage with tens of thousands of voters at more than 3,200 events, officials are promoting a “week of action” focused on abortion and reproductive rights.
“This election is going to be extremely close, and the campaign is not taking anything for granted,” Tyler told reporters.
A series of polls released days after Biden dropped out of the race showed Close race Between Trump and Harris, the vice president is slightly behind the former president in key battleground states, but most polls are within the margin of error.
