Harris to travel to Texas on Friday
Vice President Harris will campaign in deep red Texas on Friday, less than two weeks before Election Day, to warn voters about the stakes of the election.
Harris will give remarks in Houston focused on the consequences of red states’ abortion bans in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, a senior Harris campaign official said. She will be joined by women who have been impacted by abortion bans in states like Texas.
The campaign is referring to Texas as ground zero of the most extreme abortion bans, where former President Trump’s hand in overturning Roe is playing out. Texas passed a bill in September 2021 that effectively banned abortions about six weeks into pregnancy.
Harris will be joined on the visit by Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas), who is running to replace Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in a race that the nonpartisan Cook Political Report ranks lean Republican. Harris will also participate in an interview with podcast host Brené Brown while in Texas.
The trip to Texas is a break in Harris’s travel primarily to swing states in the weeks before Election Day. While Democrats are viewing Cruz’s seat as a potential pickup opportunity in the Senate, Trump is leading Harris 6.4 percentage points in Texas, according to the Decision Desk HQ/ The Hill’s aggregate polling.
Harris will travel to Texas from Georgia, where she has an event on Thursday. She will be in Pennsylvania on Wednesday and Michigan on Saturday.
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