Vice President Kamala Harris returning to NC with campaign trip to Greenville

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to return to North Carolina to campaign in Greenville on Sunday, the Harris-Walz campaign told McClatchy exclusively Wednesday.

The news comes as Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall as a Category 5 storm in Florida, and the campaign added that the vice president is continuing to monitor the storm and taking her travel day-by-day.

This marks the Democrat’s 19th visit to North Carolina this election cycle. The campaign didn’t provide details of what Harris would do in Greenville or whether the public could attend her event.

She last visited the state on Saturday as part of an official trip to tour areas impacted by Hurricane Helene , a storm that made landfall in Florida on Sept. 26 as a Category 4 storm before traveling up the East Coast, killing at least 230 people and causing devastation in its wake.

Harris has spent a lot of time campaigning in North Carolina but has cut back on campaign appearances in the state since Helene, having last visited Greensboro and Charlotte on Sept. 12.

North Carolina is considered a battleground, and both Trump and Harris’ campaigns believe the path to the White House runs through the state.

Trump has inched up in the polls in recent weeks, with FiveThirtyEight showing him ahead of Harris by 1 point, well within most polls’ margin of error.

Early voting by mail has started in North Carolina. The election is less than a month away, on Nov. 5.

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