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United States Vice-President Kamala Harris in this November 2020 file photo. Tasos Katopodis, Getty Images/AFP/File

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE - NOVEMBER 07: Vice President-elect Kamala Harris speaks on stage at the Chase Center before President-elect Joe Biden's address to the nation November 07, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. After four days of counting the high volume of mail-in ballots in key battleground states due to the coronavirus pandemic, the race was called for Biden after a contentious election battle against incumbent Republican President Donald Trump.   Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images/AFP

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President-Elect Joe Biden And Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris Address The Nation After Election Win

Agence France-Presse

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/172305520671020201107-us-election-kamal-harris-AFP-1284487686.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="United States Vice-President Kamala Harris in this November 2020 file photo. Tasos Katopodis, Getty Images/AFP/File"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">United States Vice-President Kamala Harris in this November 2020 file photo. <em>Tasos Katopodis, Getty Images/AFP/File</em></span></span></span></div><p>EAU CLAIRE, United States -- Kamala Harris took her breakneck presidential campaign on a tour of US election battlegrounds Wednesday as she seeks to build a coalition of Democrats, independents and disaffected Republicans to power her to the White House.</p><p>The 59-year-old vice president has been riding a wave of excitement and an upward swing in polling in the two weeks since she replaced President Joe Biden as the Democratic candidate to take on Republican Donald Trump on November 5.</p><p>Harris and her new running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, will take their double act to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, before traveling to Detroit, Michigan, for a rally with members of the United Auto Workers union.</p><p>Just hours after Walz was announced on Tuesday, the pair held the biggest Democratic event of the election so far in front of a raucous crowd of around 14,000 in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/world/2024/8/6/harris-picks-walz-as-running-mate-us-media-2113">READ: Harris picks Minnesota governor Walz as running mate</a></div><p>&quot;We are the underdogs in this race, but we have the momentum and I know exactly what we are up against,&quot; Harris told the crowd.</p><p>Walz, a 60-year-old former Army National Guard officer, has been governor of the staunchly Democratic state of Minnesota since 2019 but before that he had a record as a congressman of winning over moderate and independent voters.</p><p>Seen initially as an outsider for the VP pick, Walz enjoyed viral success in distilling Democrats&#x27; attack lines against Republicans into a relatable one-word characterization -- &quot;weird&quot; -- that propelled him up Harris&#x27;s shortlist.</p><p>He is scheduled to appear with Harris in each of the swing states, with stops in Arizona and Nevada later in the week. Events in North Carolina and Georgia were postponed due to bad weather.</p><p>Team Harris-Walz plans to have more than 750 staff on the ground in the &quot;blue wall&quot; states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan -- crucial for victory in November -- when the Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago in mid-August.</p><p>&quot;Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz&#x27;s momentum across the battlegrounds, including the blue wall, is real and will be on full display today,&quot; said Dan Kanninen, Battleground States Director for the Harris campaign.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/world/2024/8/6/who-is-vp-nominee-minnesota-gov-tim-walz-635">READ: Who is VP nominee Tim Walz?</a></div><div><strong>- &#x27;Kamabla&#x27;? -</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9Gsjz1RNHtU?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span>But many Republicans have voiced delight that Walz was chosen over the more centrist Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro, a popular leader of a state that most pundits agree will be the biggest prize in 2024.</div><p>Republicans are seeking to brand Walz as a far-left idealogue who offered benefits to undocumented migrants and tolerated rioting in the streets in 2020 after the police murder of African-American George Floyd.</p><p>House Majority Leader Steve Scalise posted on X that Walz had &quot;let rioters burn Minneapolis to the ground in 2020.&quot;</p><p>The Trump campaign itself has been accusing Walz -- who retired from the National Guard in 2005 -- of having &quot;deserted&quot; his unit just as it was being deployed to Iraq.</p><p>It&#x27;s not clear how decisive the VP issue will be for either side. Trump himself acknowledged in a recent interview that &quot;the vice president -- in terms of the election -- does not have any impact.... The choice of a vice president makes no difference.&quot;</p><p>Trump has declined to focus on Harris&#x27;s policy weaknesses, instead favoring personal attacks to try to halt her rise.</p><p>Harris has a 51-48 percent lead over Trump in the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist survey and has edged ahead by 0.5 percentage points in the RealClearPolitics nationwide average of polls.</p><p>The organization had Trump three points ahead of Biden at the point when the president made way for Harris, 17 days ago.</p><p>Where Trump used to be famed for his knack of defining his opponents with an incisive one-word sobriquet -- such as &quot;Crooked Hillary&quot; Clinton or &quot;Sleepy Joe&quot; Biden -- he has struggled to come up with a nickname that sticks on Harris.</p><p>His latest taunt -- calling her &quot;Kamabla&quot; -- looks more like a typo than an effective insult and has left pundits scratching their heads.</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO:</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gNf3mY-YS_Q?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<p>Kamala Harris took her breakneck presidential campaign on a tour of US election battlegrounds Wednesday as she seeks to build a coalition of Democrats, independents and disaffected Republicans to power her to the White House.</p>

Kamala Harris took her breakneck presidential campaign on a tour of US election battlegrounds Wednesday as she seeks to build a coalition of Democrats, independents and disaffected Republicans to power her to the White House.

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