Harris and Walz blitz the Blue Wall while Trump phones it in on Labor Day
Welcome to the end game of the presidential campaign. While the last two months feel like a decade has passed, historically, Labor Day and the days afterward are historically when voters begin to pay attention and, more importantly, begin to decide how they will vote.
Last week, Vice President Kamala Harris made a swing through rural Georgia as well as her first sitdown television interview with CNN. That came after polling showed her strength in the Sun Belt states like Arizona and Nevada as well as the southeastern swing states including Georgia and North Carolina.
Conversely, former president Donald Trump hit the midwestern states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, where in 2016, he shocked the world by flipping and winning the presidency.
But unlike in the days of 2016, when Trump would hold multiple events within one day, Trump only did one event in Michigan and Wisconsin, before he did an event in Johnstown, Pennsylvania and made a stop at the Moms for Liberty conference for a sitdown chat.
Those events largely got lost amid his continuing war of words about his photo opp with the Gold Star families of US servicemembers who died at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan. Over the weekend, he posted videos of the family members defending him appearing at Arlington National Cemetery after he faced criticism for shooting a campaign video at the cemetery where many American servicemembers are buried.
Similarly, Trump’s scattershot positions on abortion and in vitro fertilization have also led him to receive criticism from his own base.
But the Labor Day holiday allows for a bit of a reset and so far, it looks like Harris’s campaign is leaving nothing to chance. On Monday, Harris was set to campaign in Michigan, a state