Barack Obama and Kamala Harris to rally together in Georgia
Former President Barack Obama will campaign alongside Vice President Kamala Harris in Georgia next Thursday, according to a senior campaign official. The Oct. 24 rally will be Harris and Obama’s first joint appearance on the campaign trail this year.
No other details about the city where the rally will occur have been released.
The event is scheduled for the second week of early voting in Georgia, where as of Thursday night, nearly 900,000 voters have cast absentee or early, in-person ballots.
Harris will also rally next Saturday in Michigan with former first lady Michelle Obama, who has a get-out-the-vote rally scheduled a few days later on Oct. 29 in Georgia.
In recent elections, Obama has been deployed to battleground states as a closer — an elder statesman who can also fire up crowds in the final stretch of the campaign. Democrats are looking to retain and expand Obama’s coalition of young voters, voters of color, women and suburban voters.
Obama campaigned in Georgia twice during the 2022 midterms. That October, he rallied for Democrats including Stacey Abrams and Sen. Raphael Warnock. He returned in December ahead of Warnock’s runoff against Republican Herschel Walker.
Obama campaigned for Harris last week in Pittsburgh, where his remarks at a campaign stop focused on urging Black men to turn out — a demographic that some polls have found softening in their support for Democrats since the Obama years.
Harris endorsed Obama’s 2008 campaign early on. They met on the campaign trail and she knocked on doors for him in Iowa, according to the campaign.
Harris is also scheduled to campaign in Atlanta this Saturday. Former President Donald Trump campaigned in Cobb County on Wednesday and is scheduled to rally in Gwinnett County next week.
Polls suggest a tight race in Georgia — one of seven swing states that will likely determine the election.
Top Stories
