Obama to campaign for Harris in Pittsburgh area next week, report says

Former President Barack Obama will appear at a campaign event in the Pittsburgh area for Vice President Kamala Harris next week, according to .

The Thursday event will reportedly mark the start of a campaign "blitz" in swing states that will run through Election Day. Politico cited a senior campaign official who agreed to discuss the event schedule if the news outlet left their name out of the report.

Obama spoke at the Democratic National Convention in August, where he described Harris as a more caring candidate than former President Donald Trump.

"We have a chance to elect someone who has spent her entire life trying to give people the same chances America gave her," Obama said. "Someone who sees you and hears you and will get up every single day and fight for you: the next president of the United States of America, Kamala Harris."

He also praised her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, as "the kind of person who should be in politics."

"Born in a small town, served his country, taught kids, coached football, took care of his neighbors. He knows who he is, and he knows what's important," Obama said.

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The 44th president endorsed the Harris-Walz ticket the same day the vice president announced she had selected her running mate. Obama wrote in a statement that the pair believes government "works to serve us."

By selecting Tim Walz to be her vice president from a pool of outstanding Democrats, Kamala Harris has chosen an ideal partner – and made it clear exactly what she stands for," the former president said.

Harris over the past few weeks has campaigned in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, states where she leads Trump by at least a percentage point, according to an average of national polls published by .

The vice president held an event this week in Ripon, Wisconsin, recognized as the birthplace of the GOP. There, former Wisconsin Republican Rep. Liz Cheney explained why she and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, will vote for the Democrat.

"Vice President Harris is standing in the breach at a critical moment in our nation's history," former Rep. Cheney said. "She's working to reunite reasonable people from all across the political spectrum."

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