Vice President Kamala Harris will bring out the Democratic heavyweights when she campaigns alongside former President Obama and First Lady Michelle next week, as the presidential race is deadlocked down the stretch.
First, the former president will join Harris at a rally in Georgia on Thursday, October 24. It will be his first campaign event alongside Harris as a Democratic presidential candidate.
Then, on Saturday, October 26, the former first lady will appear with the vice president at a rally in Michigan.
Next Saturday’s successful rally will be the former first lady’s first in-person campaign event with Harris, as well as her first time on the road in 2024.
Former President Obama and First Lady Michelle at the Democratic National Convention in August. Both Obamas will campaign alongside Vice President Kamala Harris in person for the first time next week.
October 26 marks the first day of early voting in Michigan. The vice president and former first lady will try to mobilize voters to cast their ballots early in the battleground state where polls show a tight race.
Meanwhile, early voting in Georgia broke records when it began earlier this week. More than 600,000 people have already voted there in the 2024 elections.
At their event, Obama and Harris will encourage Georgia voters to vote before Election Day on November 5.
Harris will also be in the state for the first time since in-person early voting began for a rally Saturday in Atlanta.
The former president first campaigned for Harris with a solo event in Pittsburgh earlier this month, but their get-out-the-vote event next week will be their first campaign appearance together.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a rally in Green Bay on October 17. She will be joined by former President Obama for a campaign event in Georgia on October 24 and former first lady Michelle for a campaign event in Michigan on October 26.
Both successful joint events with the former president and first lady are seen as a big opportunity to tap into voter enthusiasm ahead of Election Day, according to a senior campaign official who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive, unannounced campaign activity. .
The Obamas remain perhaps the most beloved leaders of the Democratic Party. Some voters even expected Michelle to run for president before she ruled it out earlier this year.
While next week will be the former first lady’s first time appearing on the 2024 campaign trail, her speech at the Democratic National Convention in August stole the show, eclipsing even her husband’s speech.
His scathing criticism of Donald Trump received thunderous applause from Democrats and resonated across the Internet.
Before taking the stage, it was unclear that the former first lady would make an appearance in Chicago. The last time he was there was to remember his late mother.
The politics-averse former first lady even acknowledged she wasn’t sure she was up to the task during her speech, but said she felt obligated to come forward and honor her mother’s memory.
With that, he delivered a powerful and heartfelt speech to the vice president.
‘My girl, Kamala Harris, is more than ready for this moment. “He is one of the most qualified people to run for the presidency,” he said in his comments.
He also told his followers to “work as if our lives depended on it.”
Former first lady Michelle Obama delivered a harsh rebuke of former President Trump during her speech at the Democratic National Committee.
Since his spectacular speech, Obama has publicly encouraged people to register to vote on his social media platforms through When We All Vote.
She will lead a separate get-out-the-vote rally with the organization in Atlanta on October 29.
Meanwhile, the former first lady also praised the vice president online, including after the September presidential debate, when she wrote in a post that Harris is the ‘“The only candidate in this race who is ready to be president.”
During the 2020 pandemic, Obama did not participate in Biden’s campaign, but he did present a final video argument to him in October. In 2016, he campaigned both alone and with Hillary Clinton in person in the final stages of the campaign season.
Ahead of her first campaign appearance with Harris, the former first lady has been keeping busy working with a number of organizations and projects, in addition to touring the country promoting her latest book.
To date, former President Obama has been much more active in the 2024 election season.
Former President Obama at a campaign rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh on October 10. He will also campaign in Arizona, Nevada, Michigan and Wisconsin in the coming days.
He has been helping raise millions for the presidential race, as well as for Democrats in voting, with appearances at events and advertisements.
At his first solo 2024 campaign event in Pittsburgh last week, Obama launched a blistering attack on Trump, criticizing him for “ranting and raving about crazy conspiracy theories.”
He also questioned ‘if Donald Trump doesn’t care that a mob might attack his own vice president, do you think he cares about you?’
The former president has several additional solo campaign stops in the coming days, including Arizona on Friday and Nevada on Saturday.
Next week, he will head to Michigan and Wisconsin to campaign Tuesday before meeting the vice president in person for the first time in Georgia.