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Kamala Harris heads to N.H. this week
She'll be in the greater Portsmouth area.
Vice President Kamala Harris is visiting the greater Portsmouth, New Hampshire, area for a campaign event on Wednesday, her campaign has announced.
Harris will be “greeted by amazing energy!” Marisa Nahem, the communications director for the Harris campaign in New Hampshire, wrote on X.
VP @KamalaHarris is coming to NH & she’ll be greeted by amazing energy!
— Marisa Nahem (@Marisa_N19) September 1, 2024
✔️17 Dem coordinated field offices to Trump’s 1
✔️415% increase in attendees at events & a 480% increase in “volunteer shifts completed” since she announced her candidacy #NHPoliticshttps://t.co/2d8gkLSWFV
“People are excited,” former New Hampshire Democratic Party chair Kathy Sullivan told Boston.com. “The Harris-Walz ticket is really popular here.”
Harris’s visit comes after a top Republican volunteer raised concerns about former president Donald Trump’s chances of garnering support in the state, determining that New Hampshire is “no longer a battleground state,” The Boston Globe reported.
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Tom Mountain, a former Massachusetts GOP official, said that focusing on Pennsylvania would better serve Trump, who is “sure to lose by an even higher margin” in New Hampshire than in 2016 and 2020, he wrote in an email.
Mountain’s warning followed the launch of “Republicans for Harris” in New Hampshire, which is part of a national campaign rallying support for Harris by targeting Republican voters who have become dissatisfied with Trump. As part of the campaign, former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh traveled to the state to campaign for the Harris-Walz ticket last week.
The Cook Political Report found New Hampshire’s electoral college rating as “likely” Democratic, and FiveThirtyEight has Harris up by seven percentage points.
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Despite being a purple state, New Hampshire has not voted for a Republican president since 2000 when George W. Bush took the state’s four electoral votes over his Democratic challenger Al Gore.
“I think it’s pretty clear that the bloom was off the rose a long time ago, and continues to fade even more with with Trump,” Sullivan said.
The Harris campaign has yet to reveal further details about the event.
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