Harris and Walz set for ‘New Way Forward’ swing state tour after ABC debate

Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz will follow up on Harris’s Tuesday face-off against Donald Trump by embarking on a whirlwind tour of swing states in hopes of seizing momentum off her debate performance this week.

The Harris-Walz campaign says the vice president and her running-mate will criss-cross the country following Tuesday night’s debate to make appearances in each individual media market in every single swing state over a four-day period next week.

The candidates’ spouses, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and Minnesota First Lady Gwen Walz, will also make a series of appearances in support of the campaign in the coming days.

Harris is currently in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she is huddled with aides and advisers while she prepares for her debate against Trump in Philadelphia on Tuesday.

She’ll resume her official schedule following the debate with a series of appearances to commemorate the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on New York and Washington before kicking off her swing-state campaign tour in North Carolina on Thursday.

The Tar Heel State is considered a prized battleground by the vice president’s campaign, though no Democrat has carried the state’s electoral votes since Barack Obama’s 2008 victory there. If Harris can defeat Trump there, it all but forecloses his path to the 270 votes needed to take back the White House.

After visiting North Carolina, Harris will return to Pennsylvania — considered the most crucial of the battlegrounds as it forms part of the Democratic “blue wall” of states that would provide her the easiest way to victory.

At the same time, her running-mate will be spending Thursday and Friday in Michigan and Wisconsin, the other two