Harris and Walz to head to Georgia as campaign seeks to build on convention momentum

It will be the first time that reporters cover both VP Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz together, as well as their first public campaign event in the coming week following the Democratic national convention in Chicago. 
 
The ticket will be leveraging from the moment of the party’s convention to push the candidates to the last couple months of the general election. Besides the bus tour Harris is likely to record the first joint interview next week Participate in several fundraisers most probably to be conducted in New York, California, Florida and Georgia as indicated by two insiders. 
 
After the tour Harris will perform in the solo rally in Savannah, Georgia. The tour will be the seventh Harris has taken to the state this year, though she has made her second trip since announcing her campaign for the presidency last month. 
 
“Voter contact is especially important in this part of the Peach State given that it is a microcosm of the broadly diverse population that exists in Georgia: rural, suburban and urban residents with large African American voters and working class folks,” said the Harris-Walz campaign in a statement that announced the bus tour. 
 
This visit is to happen at the backdrop of increased campaign visits by the Republican ticket in the state. Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republicans’ vice presidential nominee, mobilized a campaign event in Valdosta on Thursday after the previous Trump campaign that happened in Atlanta in the early part of the month. The GOP has also wanted to tap into results showing that the party could increase its proportion of Black and Latino voters during this election cycle. 
 
The southern Georgia bus tour is likely to resemble the western Pennsylvania bus tour conducted prior to this month whereby the campaign visited a campaign field, a fire house and a high school football practice session. 
 
Harris and Walz were supposed to hold the battleground state-state visit in Savannah earlier this month, but the tour had to be rescheduled because of Tropical Storm Debbie. 
 
While it is still unknown where Harris and Walz will go, Southern Georgia is home to some of the biggest black populations in the state including Dougherty County which has the second highest concentration of Blacks in Georgia. Since the launch of the campaign the candidate has rented a house to act as a field office in the mainly Black cities of Albany and Valdosta. 
 
“The South Georgia region is a priority for the campaign: Our organization has close to 50 full time staffs in the 7 offices across the area including Valdosta Up until 31 May we have had over 500 events in the region”. 
 
New Georgia Project Fund’s research director, Ranada Robinson said that Harris’ outreach to Black voters in both rural and urban, pivotal to her victory in Georgia which is a way Biden faced last year’s’ election. 
 
“Black voters are the key to winning Georgia,” the Black church minister said in a hard-hitting interview with CNN on Wednesday night; “Of course Black Georgians can’t do it alone, but we are absolutely the reason 2020 turned out the way it did. ” “Black voters garnered historic turn out, and that has to be repeated for there to be a win in Georgia . ” 
 
Last week, Harris hosted the second public campaign rally for presidential bid in Atlanta with Megan Thee Stallion which the campaign said drew over 10,000 attendees. 
 
It then initiated the mobilization effort in the state and now boast of having almost 400,000 volunteers, 174 paid employees , and 24 coordinated campaign offices spread throughout Georgia. There, the campaign boast of the fact that it established the largest in-state operation of any democratic presidential campaign cycle ever in Georgia. 
 
During Harris campaign chair Jen O’ Malley Dillon briefing the campaign managers, she singled out Georgia for intensive engagement having realized that its demography is changing to favor the vice president compared to the 2020 polls. 
 
“Young voters, Black voters, and Latino voter support for the Vice President will be crucial to our multiple routes to 270 electoral votes,” Dillon said in a memo to the campaign. 
 
Harris and Walz are also to campaign heavily in key states through the Labor Day, before Harris pivots to debates preparations for her first one on September versus Trump. 
 
Some Trump said campaign’s expectations that there will be a bounce for Harris in the wake of the convention, they compared the bounce as like having a sugar hit, they did not expect it to shift the trajectory of the race.