It’s happening. Harris for Harris is actually happening!
Join Vice President Kamala Harris for a campaign rally in Houston, TX!
More details coming soon.
Where exactly will it be...and what specials guests may be joining her? We’ll know soon enough.
Is Texas really in play for Harris? If so...boosting the Democratic turnout in Harris (the 3rd largest county in the U.S.) is essential. Trump only won Texas by about 5 points in 2020, and recent polls have Harris in that same range. So in terms of swing-state strategies, this makes way more sense than Donald Trump going to Coachella and Madison Square Garden.
Or is this an attention-grabbing power move that will also give a much-needed boost to Colin Allred who is in a neck-and-neck race with the odious Ted Cruz? This race could prove key to Harris having a Democratic Senate when she is president...and the importance of that cannot be overstated.
Whatever the reasons...this is HUGE! Texas has not gone blue since Jimmy Carter in 1976 and this long-suffering Blue Texan could not be more excited that our Democratic nominee will be here with less than 2 weeks until Election Day!
Watch this space for further details in the coming days!!!
UPDATE 1:
Kamala Harris on Friday will head to Texas, ground zero of state-level abortion bans in the post-Roe era.
The vice president will be joined in Houston by women who have been impacted by abortion bans and will warn about the threats of a national ban on the procedure if Donald Trump wins back the White House, according to a senior Harris campaign official. She will also record a podcast with academic Brené Brown, who has more than 5 million followers on Instagram.
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UPDATE 3:
“We really wanted to go to a place that would properly capture the damage that’s been done to date and how it’s affecting people throughout the state, and to use that as an important tool to tell the story about what’s at stake as it relates to this election with abortion and women’s health care,” said David Plouffe, a senior adviser to Harris. ...
Harris officials say they hope a speech outside the seven battleground states — Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and North Carolina — will draw more media attention, as they conceded it has been difficult at times to break through the noise of a campaign that has focused almost exclusively on that handful of states.