Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks to supporters at a campaign event in Savannah, Georgia on Thursday. She announced a bus reproductive rights bus tour on Friday. Photo by Richard Ellis/UPI |
License PhotoAug. 30 (UPI) — Kamala Harris‘ campaign said on Friday it will start a nationwide bus tour on reproductive rights to make sure the issue stays in front of voters as the presidential campaign winds down its final months.
The bus tour, which will feature some of Harris’s most focal female surrogates, will begin Tuesday in Palm Beach County, Fla., the home of former President Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago estate, and ultimately travel to 50 stops in both Democratic and Republican strongholds throughout the nation.
“At this stop and in cities across the country, reproductive rights storytellers, key surrogates and elected and local officials are going to underscore the ongoing threat Donald Trump poses to reproductive freedom across the country, including threatening access to IVF,” the Harris campaign said.
Rep. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and CNN commentator Ana Navarro are all expected to appear at the first bus stop.
Others joining the tour include Harris campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, and Gwen Walz, the wife of Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz.
“Our campaign is hitting the road to meet voters in their communities, underscore the stakes of this election for reproductive freedom and present them with the Harris-Walz ticket’s vision to move the country forward, which stands in dark contrast to Donald Trump’s plan to drag us back,” Rodriguez said to The Hill.
Harris launched a multi-state tour focused on reproductive rights at the beginning of the year, before President Joe Biden decided to drop out of the 2024 race and endorse her eventual candidacy.
The tour began in Wisconsin and later saw her travel to Arizona after the Supreme Court upheld an 1864 law in the state that instituted a near-total ban on abortions.
