CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Joe Biden campaign has announced that vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris will campaign in Cleveland on Saturday, Harris the only Black fema (pictured)le U.S. senator and the only Black woman to seek the 2020 Democratic nomination for president.
More specifics are forthcoming, the campaign said in a press release.
Her previously scheduled visit to Cleveland for Oct 16 was cancelled after two of her staff members contracted the coronavirus, though neither Harris nor Biden, the Democratic nominee who will face incumbent President Donald Trump for the November election, has come down with the virus.
Cleveland is a largely Black major American city that sits in Cuyahoga County, the state's second largest county, and a Democratic stronghold.
The county is roughly 29 percent Black.
Harris is the first woman of color to compete on a major party presidential ticket in America, and pundits say she is a welcome addition to Biden's presidential ticket.
A former vice president under former president Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president, Biden leads President Donald Trump in the polls nationally, and practically all of the swing states.
But the two candidates are neck and neck in Ohio as the Nov 3 presidential election nears and early voting gets underway, Ohio a pivotal state for presidential elections that has 18 electoral votes up for grabs.
A former California attorney general, Harris is native of Oakland who was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016.
She became the fourth woman to compete on a major party presidential ticket in America behind vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin in 2008 and Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, and Hillary Clinton in 2016, Clinton a presidential candidate that year.
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