Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris will visit North Carolina on Monday, her first time here since being picked as Joe Biden’s running mate.
She will be in Raleigh to talk about the Supreme Court and what’s at stake for the American people this election, her campaign announced Friday.
No more details are available yet about the time and location of her visit.
North Carolina is a battleground state, with voters choosing both Donald Trump and Barack Obama for president in previous elections.
Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have made several visits to North Carolina over the past month. Trump was in Charlotte this past week, as was Biden.
During Biden’s Charlotte visit, he vowed to change systemic racism, the Charlotte Observer reported. Trump made his fifth visit to North Carolina recently, talking about health care in Charlotte, the Observer reported.
Harris, a U.S. senator and former attorney general for California, last visited the state when she was running in the presidential primary. In August 2019, she was in the Triangle to give two speeches in Durham — at a Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People event and at St. Joseph AME Church.
The Biden-Harris campaign has been targeting Black voters in North Carolina with a recent television ad filmed in a Durham barbershop.
Harris is a graduate of Howard University, which is an HBCU, and a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha historically Black sorority. North Carolina elected officials who are also graduates of HBCUs and in what are known as the Divine 9 sororities and fraternities said Harris as the VP pick has been affirming.
“Kamala Harris is certainly a prime example of what happens at an HBCU,” U.S. Rep. Alma Adams of Charlotte told The News & Observer in August after Harris was announced as VP pick.
“This is just a phenomenal, affirming event. First and foremost of course for Black women, who have been just the mainstay and the lifeblood of the Democratic Party,” the Rev. Mark-Anthony Middleton, a Durham City Council member who gave a prayer at Harris’ visit in 2019, told the N&O in August.
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This story was originally published September 25, 2020 1:02 PM.
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