Jill Biden will hit 5 battleground states in 4 days starting Saturday
First Lady Jill Biden will campaign in five battleground states in four days next week in the final weeks before November’s election, the campaign announced Friday.
Biden will appear in Arizona on Saturday and Nevada on Sunday before traveling to both Michigan and Wisconsin on Monday and campaigning in Pennsylvania on Tuesday.
The Harris team is deploying the first lady to smaller, targeted markets to court undecided voters and to city suburbs as they look to mobilize women voters with less than a month until the election, the source said.
The return to the campaign trail marks a new phase of the first lady’s longtime role as a top Democratic surrogate. It comes more than two months after her husband, President Joe Biden, ended his own reelection bid after fellow Democrats privately and openly questioned his ability to win a second term — a difficult period for their family in his more than five decades in politics.
The first lady, a fierce supporter and defender of the president’s campaign for a second term up until his decision to withdraw on July 21, has largely stayed out of the political fray since that moment. She introduced her husband at the Democratic National Convention in August and expressed her support for Harris, who her late son Beau Biden worked with as a state attorney general.
“We have seen her courage, her determination, and her leadership up close. Kamala and Tim, you will win, and you are inspiring a new generation.”
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