Harris campaign plans for aggressive outreach in swing states after Tuesday’s debate with Trump

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris holds a bag of Doritos chips as Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz looks on at Sheetz convenience store during a campaign stop, Aug. 18, 2024, in Coralpolis. (AP/File Photo)
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Updated 08 September 2024
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Harris campaign plans for aggressive outreach in swing states after Tuesday’s debate with Trump

  • After the debate, political leaders on Wednesday are set to commemorate the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks

PITTSBURGH: Vice President Kamala Harris plans a four-day campaign trip through major swing states after the Democrat’s debate Tuesday with Republican Donald Trump.
Her “New Way Forward” tour will include a new television spot, rallies, canvassing events and programs designed to target important voting groups, the campaign said Sunday, adding that the tour will culminate at the start of Hispanic Heritage Month on Sept. 15.
In a tight race against the former president, the Harris campaign sees itself as having the room to persuade voters before focusing more intently on turnout with the beginning of early voting before the Nov. 5 election. Trump has also stepped up his outreach with rallies and interviews in seemingly friendly forums.
The period after the debate in Philadelphia marks the start of the aggressive sprint toward the end of what has been a dramatic race.
“Our campaign will take the vice president’s message directly to the voters wherever they are -– on the airwaves, on the doors, and online,” said Michael Tyler, the campaign’s communications director. “With so much at stake in this election, we are blitzing the battlegrounds and leaving it all out on the field.”
Trump, who campaigned Saturday in Wisconsin, posted on social media that “when” he wins, anyone who he deems as having been “involved in unscrupulous behavior” tied to the election “will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country.”
After the debate, political leaders on Wednesday are set to commemorate the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Harris kicks off her tour Thursday in North Carolina and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will be in Michigan. On Friday, Harris will return to Pennsylvania while Walz is in Michigan and Wisconsin.
The candidates’ spouses will also be part of the tour. Doug Emhoff, Harris’ husband, will go to Nevada, Arizona and Florida. Gwen Walz is scheduled to be in Georgia, New Hampshire and Maine.
More details are to come.
Harris’ campaign will start running a new television ad that will speak to her plans for middle-class tax cuts, limiting prescription drug prices and addressing the housing shortage. The ads are part of a broader $370 million media investment and will be tailored state by state for voters in Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Nebraska.


Poland charges six with trying to smuggle sanctioned equipment to Russia

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Poland charges six with trying to smuggle sanctioned equipment to Russia

WARSAW: Four ‌Belarusians and two Poles were detained and charged with attempting to smuggle to Russia ​devices used to automate the production of integrated circuits, used, among others, in the assembly of combat drones, Polish prosecutors said.
Warsaw has been warning of Russian and Belarusian attempts to destabilize countries backing ‌Ukraine after ‌Russia invaded the country ​on ‌February ⁠24, ​2022.
On Wednesday, ⁠Polish prosecutors said the suspects were detained on February 18 and charged with attempting to smuggle through Belarus strategically significant equipment, which is under sanctions and which could ⁠be used in the production ‌of military technology.
“Violation ‌of the provisions of ​the sanctions ‌act is classified as a crime, ‌punishable by imprisonment for a period of no less than three years,” prosecutors said in a statement.
Three suspects were ‌placed in pretrial detention for a period of three months, ⁠while ⁠the remaining three were placed under police supervision, bail, and a ban on leaving the country.
“Earlier actions by officers of the National Revenue Administration helped thwart an attempt to smuggle a machine, which contributed to the disruption of potential supplies of military equipment to the ​troops of the ​Russian Federation operating in eastern Ukraine,” prosecutors said.