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Former President Barack Obama will join Kamala Harris’s campaign trail in Pennsylvania on Thursday, using his star power to rally support in the crucial swing state, as Democrats aim to counter Donald Trump’s strong polling lead.
Leading a rally in Pittsburgh, known as the steel city, America’s first Black president will launch a month-long campaign across battleground states, urging voters to cast their early ballots ahead of the highly competitive election in November.
Harris will shift her focus to swing states Nevada and Arizona, aiming to engage Latino voters, but the White House announced that she had also been involved in a virtual briefing on Hurricane Milton, which swept through Florida overnight.
Stepping up his criticism, Republican former president Trump accused Harris and Biden of mishandling the hurricane, a charge that President Biden swiftly rebuffed, labeling it an “onslaught of lies.”
“Hopefully on January 20 you’re going to have somebody who’s really going to help you,” Trump said in a video message to the people of Florida, where he lives.
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Trump’s campaign also criticized Harris on economic grounds following last month’s marginal drop in US consumer inflation, which fell slightly below expectations, with the issue of rising prices continuing to dominate voters’ concerns in the election.
“Kamala Harris’s terrible economic policies continue to hit the American people where it hurts,” spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
In a sign of Pennsylvania’s critical importance to the White House race, Trump rallied there on Wednesday in Biden’s childhood hometown of Scranton. He is heading on Thursday to the auto industry capital of Detroit in Michigan, another battleground.
Harris meanwhile said she had accepted an offer for a CNN town hall on October 23 in Pennsylvania, after Trump turned down a final televised debate with her.
