Harris campaign plans more stops in red, rural counties to try and pick up votes, sources say

 The Reproductive Freedom Bus leaves after the kickoff of the Harris-Walz campaign reproductive rights bus tour in Boynton Beach, Florida, on September 3.

Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to increase her travel to more rural counties that voted for former President Donald Trump in 2020 in the coming weeks, as the campaign tries to pick up voters and drive down support for her Republican rival, according to two sources familiar.  

The vice president’s stops in Pennsylvania today are the latest reflection of the campaign’s hopes to make inroads with voters who may not be die-hard Democrats but are uninterested in former President Donald Trump. 

On Friday, Harris returned to two counties — Cambria and Luzerne — that Trump won by double digits in 2020. 

“We are working to grow her support in these areas,” a Harris campaign official told CNN, adding that plans to continue to visit rural counties that lean Republican is a “reflection of how close we see the race.” 

That also includes building out infrastructure and field offices in those counties. The Harris campaign recently opened its 50th campaign office in Pennsylvania. 

Late last month, Harris similarly did a swing through south Georgia, a region that typically leans Republican, in another attempt to curtail Trump’s advantage in rural areas.

The strategy is also a play to reach Nikki Haley voters, sources say, including in areas like Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Gov. Tim Walz campaigned in Lancaster County last week. 

CNN previously reported that many conversations at Harris campaign headquarters focus on the 5-6% of voters who are still showing up undecided in battleground states, the set opinions those voters have of Trump and the continuing interest they tend to say they have in learning more about Harris.

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