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Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to speak at a Get Out The Vote student rally at UCLA Monday, one day before the midterm elections.
Rep. Karen Bass, a candidate for mayor of Los Angeles, and Harris’ husband Douglas Emhoff are also set to speak along with state Sen. Sydney Kamlager, who is facing former Los Angeles City Councilwoman Jan Perry, a fellow Democrat, in the race to succeed Bass in the House.
Following the rally, Harris “will join a virtual political event” at 2 p.m., according to her office.
Harris arrived at Los Angeles International Airport aboard Air Force 2 Sunday afternoon from Chicago, where she spoke at a Democratic Party of Illinois rally.
The trip is Harris’ third to Southern California since late August. Harris, who owns a home in Brentwood, was also in the region Oct. 15-18 for a visit to Los Angeles that included a discussion on efforts to protect reproductive rights.
“Harris is back again in Southern California, as if she doesn’t have anything more important to do,” Hallie Balch, the Republican National Committee’s California and Nevada director of communications, told City News Service.
“Sending the vice president the day before the election won’t inspire voters to head to the polls when she’s tied to a failing administration that has made life harder on all Californians.”
Bass said in a release she will remind Angelenos she is the only true, lifelong pro-choice Democrat in the race for mayor with the record voters can trust to solve homelessness, make Los Angeles safer and more affordable.
Bass spent the weekend meeting with her supporters during a bus tour through Los Angeles. She stopped at a dozen locations to greet Get Out The Vote volunteers, and was joined by community leaders Alfre Woodard, Kim Whitley and Yvette Nicole Brown.
Harris is making a final round of stops to support woman candidates before Election Day on Tuesday.
“Over the next four days, Vice President Harris will continue to do what she has been doing and that’s uplifting candidates up and down the ballot who are as equally committed to protecting reproductive rights and are committed to building on the progress the administration has been to bring the economy back,” a White House official told CNN on Sunday.
Harris appeared with Sen. Tammy Duckworth in Illinois for an Asian- American and Pacific Islanders Fund event in addition to attending rally for Illinois Gov. J.B. Prtizker on Sunday.
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