Harris and Walz continue their bus tour of Georgia

The Vice President Kamala Harris and the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walztraveled through the south of Georgia Wednesday, on the pair’s second bus tour in two weeks and the first of their campaign for the 2024 elections since the Democratic National Convention ended last Thursday.

Harris and Walz will continue their campaign bus tour through southeast Georgia on Thursday.

On Thursday afternoon, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will record a joint television interview that will air as a special on CNN at 9:00 p.m. ET.

Then, Governor Walz will leave for North Carolina for a local political event and campaign reception, and Vice President Harris to Continue Bus Tour through southeastern Georgia.

Harris will make two stops at local small businesses on Thursday and will thank volunteers from Chatham County, which is an area where Democrats have been gaining increasingly larger margins in recent years. The vice president will be joined throughout the day by Rep. Nikema Williams.

Later in the afternoon, the vice president will participate in a campaign rally at Enmarket Arena in Savannah, where she is expected to deliver a speech at approximately 5:15 p.m. ET.

Harris will outline the difficult choice voters face between Donald Trump’s dark and dangerous Project 2025 agenda and his own optimistic and patriotic vision of a new path to follow.

This will be the first time a presidential candidate in the general election campaigns in Savannah since the 1990s.

Other speakers at the event include State Senator Derek Mallow, State Representative Edna Jackson, Savannah Mayor Van Johnson and Representative Nikema Williams.

Vice President Harris will be introduced by Katelyn Green, student government president at Savannah State University and a first-time voter.

Savannah State University is Georgia’s oldest historically black university.This commitment comes as the campaign launches a major youth outreach program on campuses in battleground states, with a particular focus on public universities and minority-serving institutions.

Other notable attendees at the event included Ambassador Andrew Young and members of the International Longshoremen’s Association.

“Campaigning in this part of the Peach State is critical as it represents a diverse coalition of voters, including rural, suburban and urban Georgians, with a large proportion of Black voters and working-class families,” said the Harris-Walz campaign in a statement announcing the tour.

Biden narrowly won Georgia in 2020becoming the first Democrat to do so since Bill Clinton in 1992. But many Democrats had privately given up on winning the state in November as polls showed Trump with a sizable lead over Biden.

Those same polls have largely shifted in favor of Democrats since Harris entered the race, and the party is investing more time and resources in Georgia as it tries to block potential avenues for Trump to win the election.

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