In terms of appearances on the campaign trail, Vice President Kamala Harris’ schedule is lately much more rigorous than that of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Harris, who is now leading Democrats into this year’s presidential election, is in the middle of a seven-state sweep as she introduces supporters and the nation to her new running mate, Minnesota’s Tim Walz. And Trump? He still has just one campaign event on his public schedule for coming days: a visit to Montana, which isn’t a swing state.
“Trump’s running mate, Senator JD Vance is holding dueling rallies in the same cities as Harris and Walz. Where is former President Trump? Why isn’t he out there campaigning?” CNN’s Jake Tapper asked a correspondent on the air on Wednesday.
“Well, the former president is here in Palm Beach at his Mar-a-Lago resort. Why he’s not campaigning? We have obviously asked the campaign when he will be out on the road again. But obviously this is a split screen here, as you see Harris and Walz pounding the pavement in these battleground states, and Vance really alone out there while Trump has been in Florida. Now, the campaign staffers that I have talked to, they have said that his schedule is going to pick up,” replied CNN’s Kristen Holmes, also saying the staffers have pointed to Trump’s latest series of interviews.
“But it remains the same that he has not been on the campaign trail at all since last Saturday when he was in the critical battleground state of Georgia with JD Vance. And he won’t be on scene again until Friday night as of now in Montana for a rally that is at 10 p.m. East Coast time,” she added.
Harris, meanwhile, has already been — this week — to Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan, with more campaign stops on the way. And she’s getting positive polling results along the way, including a Marquette University Law School survey that found an eight percentage point-lead for the Democrat against Trump among likely voters when candidates outside the major parties were also named for participants. That’s at the national level.
