ANN ARBOR, MI – For the second straight day, Vice President Kamala Harris made three stops in a key battleground state as the clock quickly approaches Election Day in her race against former President Donald Trump.

A day after campaigning in Philadelphia, the largest city in the swing state of Pennsylvania, the vice president made three stops in Michigan, another hotly contested Rust Belt battleground.

With Harris and Trump locked in a margin-of-error race in both the national and swing-state polls and eight days left until Election Day, Harris is entering a whirlwind final week of campaigning.

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Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, leave after speaking during a campaign event at Burns Park in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Monday, October 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

For the first time in two months, the vice president joined her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, at a large rally as they addressed a crowd of about 21,000 people that her campaign said had gathered on a brisk fall evening .

On the eve of her closing argument in an address in the nation’s capital, Harris gave a preview, saying, “We have the opportunity to turn the tide (of Trump) and chart a new and joyful path forward.”

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The vice president, who has spent some of the past few weeks courting Republican voters dissatisfied with Trump, made appeals to the Democratic Party’s progressive base in her speech Monday night.

She emphasized that health insurance “should be a right and not just a privilege for those who can afford it.”

Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally at Burns Park in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Monday, October 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

When she was interrupted by demonstrators protesting U.S. support for Israel in its war with Hamas in Gaza, she replied: “I understand you on the issue of Gaza.”

“We all want this war to end as quickly as possible and the hostages to be released,” the vice president said. “I will do everything in my power to make it that way.”

Ann Abor, a Democratic-dominated city that is also home to Michigan’s flagship state university, has also seen numerous protests against the war in Gaza.

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When Walz spoke before Harris, he spoke passionately about the issue of gun violence, emphasizing that freedom includes “being able to send your kids to school without them being shot in the hallway.”

“I won’t put up with any nonsense. I know about guns, I’m a veteran. I am a hunter. Kamala and I are both gun owners. We know you can uphold the Second Amendment, but you can also exercise our first responsibility – to protect our children,” the governor added.

Minnesota Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz speaks during a campaign event at Burns Park in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Monday, October 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

After giving her closing speech on Tuesday, Harris will return to the battleground states on Wednesday, with stops in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Those three states, along with Michigan, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, had razor-thin margins that determined President Biden’s White House victory over Trump in 2020. Additionally, the seven states will likely decide whether Trump or Harris wins this year.

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Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are also the three Rust Belt states that make up the Democrats’ so-called “Blue Wall.”

The party reliably won all three states for a quarter century before Trump narrowly won them in the 2016 election and won the White House.

Four years later, in 2020, Biden narrowly defeated all three states to bring them back into the Democratic fold and defeat Trump.

Both the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates and their running mates have made repeated stops in the three states this summer and fall.

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