Vice President Kamala Harris in Wisconsin next week; 3rd visit this year
US Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to speak on reproductive freedom at El Rio Neighborhood Center in Tucson, Arizona, on April 12, 2024. The top court in Arizona on April 9, 2024, ruled a 160-year-old near total ban on abortion is enforceable, t
LA CROSSE, Wis. - Vice President Kamala Harris will return to Wisconsin next week. This will be the vice president’s third trip to Wisconsin this year and her seventh since being sworn in.
Harris plans to campaign in La Crosse on Monday at an event focused on abortion rights. The White House said Harris will also hold a second event there focused on the economy and health care.
Harris was in Madison last month and in Waukesha in January for the first of her trips focused on abortion.
Wisconsin is one of a handful of presidential battleground states across the country. The latest Marquette University Law School poll, released Wednesday, showed the race between Biden and former President Donald Trump to be about even.
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Trump campaigned in Wisconsin for the first time this year earlier this month, holding a rally in Green Bay. Biden was in Madison last week to announce his latest student loan forgiveness plan.
Trump won Wisconsin in 2016 but lost to Biden in 2020. Both races were decided by fewer than 23,000 votes.
The Associated Press Contributed to this report.