Pa. to host Kamala Harris' CNN town hall and Donald Trump's bus tour of surrogates

By Jonathan D. Salant / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

WASHINGTON — With just over two weeks to go before Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris will spend two days this week in the eastern part of Pennsylvania. Former President Donald Trump will campaign in other battlegrounds, but a bus tour of surrogates will transverse the state in his place.

Ms. Harris on Monday afternoon was in Malvern, Chester County, to have a conversation with former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who broke with her party following the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection by Trump supporters. The two women will hold similar events in Wisconsin and Michigan later in the week.

She is scheduled to head to Chester Township on Wednesday for a CNN town hall. That was the day CNN proposed for a second debate between the two presidential nominees, which Ms. Harris accepted but Trump turned down.

Meanwhile, Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff will spend Monday in Lackawanna and Luzerne counties.

Trump campaign surrogates will embark on a weeklong bus tour, starting in Sharon Hill, near Philadelphia, on Monday and winding up in Hershey on Friday. There are Western Pennsylvania stops in Monroeville and Canonsburg on Thursday. The bus tour also will stop in Erie and in the Lehigh Valley, two swing areas of the most populous swing state.

The travelers for all or part of the tour include U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa; U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind.; former U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, D-N.Y.; (IN-05); Kash Patel, former chief of staff at the Pentagon; former Treasury spokeswoman Monica Crowley; and former White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley.