Former President Barack Obama will be in a tight spot for Vice President Kamala Harris in battleground states starting next week, a campaign official said.
The first stop of President Obama's battleground blitzkrieg will be Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 10th.
The Keystone State will have 19 important electoral votes in November. latest poll Harris is in a fierce battle with former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania.
The former commander-in-chief plans to make several stops in support of Harris in other battleground states during the final 27 days of the 2024 presidential election, the official said.
It's unclear exactly how many of Harris' events Obama will appear in between the spring campaign and Election Day, or whether the vice president will join the 44th president at all of his rallies in battleground states.
The seven battleground states this cycle are Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia, and Pennsylvania.
Harris, 59, and Trump, 78, now have less than a 2 percentage point difference in each of those states, according to RealClearPolitics' latest polling average.
Obama, 63, reportedly played a leading role in a behind-the-scenes pressure campaign to prevent President Biden from winning re-election.
But the former president waited a full four days after Biden withdrew from the presidential race on July 21 before publicly endorsing Harris (Biden endorsed Harris immediately after withdrawing).
Mr. Obama's campaign support came after he gave a keynote speech endorsing Ms. Harris on the second night of the Democratic National Convention, the same night the vice president ceremonially declared her party's presidential nominee.
In his speech, President Obama said, “This convention has always been very good for kids with funny names who believe in a country where anything is possible,'' and Harris said that as president, “I want to focus on my own issues.'' “She won't… She'll focus on her own problems.” Focus on you. ”
During President Obama's speech, the vice president was nearly 100 miles away from the Chicago convention site, choosing to hold a campaign rally in Milwaukee instead of attending the proceedings.
The former president's estranged half-brother, Abongo Malik Obama, told the Post earlier this week that he believes Barack “still runs the country” and that if Harris wins in November, He said he will play a “big role.”
Malik announced last month that he would vote for Trump in the election and has supported the 45th president since 2016.
