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.
