Aug. 10 (UPI) — The 2024 Democratic presidential ticket of Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz are set to wrap up their five-day campaign tour of key swing states with a rally in Nevada on Saturday.
The duo are scheduled to appear at 5:30 p.m. PDT at the 19,500-seat Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, capping off their initial of barnstorming tour of battleground states with previous stops in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Arizona.
On Friday, Walz and Harris staged a rally at a packed Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Ariz., where they were introduced by U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly , D-Ariz., and his wife, former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.
Kelly, who was on Harris’ shortlist as a possible running mate, proclaimed his support for the Harris-Walz ticket, while Giffords, the survivor of an assassination attempt in 2011, related her story of learning to speak and walk again after the gun violence incident.
“We are living in challenging times,” she told the crowd . “We’re up to the challenge.”