Vice President Kamala Harris is riding momentum from the presidential debate as she heads into a new aggressive stage of the campaign against Donald Trump, and the campaign hopes to use it to her advantage in the final stretch.
The Democratic presidential nominee is making a campaign swing through two crucial battleground states following the debate which will help decide the election.
On Thursday, the vice president is headed to Charlotte and Greensboro, North Carolina for back-to-back rallies. On Friday, she has stops in central Pennsylvania.
Coming off the debate with just over fifty days before the election, the vice president’s new ‘aggressive phase’ will also include new ads that feature key moments from the debate where she got under rival Donald Trump’s skin.
Harris will even do more media interviews, according to the campaign, as she has faced criticism for not doing any solo in-depth interviews to date or holding any press conferences since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee.
At the same time, surrogates for the vice president are fanning out across the country this week.
Kamala Harris will head out to North Carolina and Pennsylvania for rallies following the debate as the campaign enters a new ‘aggressive’ phase
The Harris campaign push comes as Trump heads west to wrap up the week with stops in the battleground states of Arizona and Nevada as well as a press conference in Los Angeles.
Polls show the race is extremely tight in the final stretch. But the majority of viewers who watched the debate Tuesday night believe Harris won.
The campaign is calling the push its ‘New Way Forward Tour’ as in boosts campaign stops and ads.
The Harris campaign spent all of Wednesday scouring campaign footage for key moments to use in its new ads which will come out in the coming days which will target key voters in battleground states.
The first ad featuring debate footage titled ‘Leadership’ went up on Wednesday night. The ad clips Harris touting a ‘new generation of leadership’ while also featuring clips of Trump trashing the U.S. where he says the nation ‘is dying.’
It’s part of the campaign’s $370 million in spending between Labor Day and Election Day.
When it comes to her increased media appearances, the vice president will be especially focused on reaching battleground state voters and key members of the Democratic coalition.
Kamala Harris’ campaign will use clips from the presidential debate in TV and digital ads ahead of the election
The first Harris campaign ad featuring footage from the presidential debate titled ‘Leadership’ went up on Wednesday
Harris will do interviews with local state media in the coming days. Next week, she is also expected to participate in a conversation with journalists from the National Association of Black Journalists.
As Harris heads to North Carolina and Pennsylvania, key members of the campaign are headed out across the country.
Running mate Tim Walz is headed to Michigan Thursday and Friday and Wisconsin on Saturday. He is also ramping up his media appearances which began with a series of solo interviews out of the debate on Tuesday.
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff is on the road in Arizona and Nevada while Gwen Walz will campaign Thursday in Manchester, New Hampshire and in Maine on Friday.
Kamala Harris was not on the campaign trail on Wednesday instead participating in memorials to mark 23 years since 9/11 with President Biden. She is back on the trail Thursday and Friday
Multiple experts weighing in on the presidential debate Tuesday night in Philadelphia told DailyMail.com that the vice president brought her ‘A’ game and won.
Exclusive polling for DailyMail.com showed more viewers agreed that Harris won. Some 49 percent said Harris gave the better performance while 43 percent said Trump came out on top.
Voters supporting the vice president celebrated her debate performance while waiting in line to attend her rally in Charlotte, NC on Thursday.
34-year-old Jourdan Gore from Winston Salem thought Harris killed it in the debate.
‘What struck me the most is how prepared and polished women have to be to stand in the same spaces that men can stand in without being prepared at all,’ said Gore.
‘That’s what it looks like for women to stand in these kind of spaces, especially women of color. We have to be 10 times better, smarter and faster to even have a seat at the table,’ she said.
Supporters said stand out moments for them in the debate included when Harris spoke about abortion rights.
‘I clapped when she got on the abortion issue and told him there’s a girl out there in the car bleeding out. They care that they cannot have their rights over their body,’ said Carol Injaychock.
Unaffiliated voter JG Riviere from Charlotte had voted for members of both parties in the past but has leaned Democrat in the era of Trump.
‘For me, it is the importance of the rule of law, and I think with Kamala Harris, we’ll have a president who will not only understand the Constitution, but defend the Constitution,’ he said.
‘I thought that Kamala Harris performed beyond what I thought she could do,’ Riviere said of her debate performance. ‘I saw a commander in chief. I saw someone who is willing to work for the American people,
His bold prediction on his state: ‘it will go blue this year.’
DailyMail.com’s modeling shows the state leaning slightly toward Trump. He won North Carolina in both 2016 and 2020, but Democrats believe they can flip the state.
The ex-president beat Biden by less than 1.5 points. Several polls in recent weeks showed the vice president with a slight edge but were within the margin of error.
