Barack Obama to kick off battleground state blitz for Harris next week in Pennsylvania
Former President Barack Obama will campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh next week, his first foray into the election as a battleground-state surrogate.
Former President Barack Obama will campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh next week, his first foray into the election as a battleground-state surrogate.
The event, according to a senior Harris campaign official, will launch a larger effort by Obama, who intends to ramp up his campaigning for Harris in the final stretch of the election cycle.
“President Obama believes the stakes of this election could not be more consequential and that is why he is doing everything he can to help elect Vice President Harris, Governor Walz and Democrats across the country,” Eric Schulz, a senior adviser to Obama, said in a statement.
Obama additionally plans to record candidate-specific advertisements and robo-calls for down-ballot races. On Friday, he endorsed Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin in the Michigan Senate race and cut an advertisement for her just as voters begin receiving absentee ballots in the critical battleground.
Harris and Obama’s relationship spans two decades, with the two first meeting as Obama was seeking election to the Senate in 2004.
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