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By Monica Sager
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Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign announced Thursday that she will hold a rally in Milwaukee next week ahead of her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in nearby Chicago.
The specific location for the Tuesday event has not been publicized yet, though the New York Times reported earlier that the campaign was in talks to hold it at Fiserv Forum — the venue that hosted the Republican National Convention last month and where Donald Trump formally accepted the party's nomination days before President Biden dropped out of the race.
A person who answered the phone at the arena told Newsweek they had "no information" about an upcoming Harris event there and hung up.
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Milwaukee is about 90 miles from Chicago as the crow flies, meaning depending on the timing of the rally attendees and speakers could potentially still make it to the night's main events at the DNC.
It is not unheard of for candidates to hold rallies outside their party's convention city in the same week as the convention itself. Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton did not arrive at their respective conventions until the day before they spoke. Trump, however, spent all four days at the Republican convention last month.
Also in contrast to Clinton, Harris' scheduling of a rally in Milwaukee suggests the campaign is playing to win in the critical battleground of Wisconsin. Clinton was famously pilloried for not campaigning in the state in the lead-up to the 2016 election. She lost Wisconsin to Trump by less than a percentage point, sealing his victory.
"This trip marks the Vice President's seventh visit to Wisconsin this year and her third since launching her presidential campaign," the campaign said in its media advisory.
Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, visited Eau Claire, in northern Wisconsin, last week for a rally the campaign said turned out 12,000 people.
Meanwhile, Trump's running mate, Sen. JD Vance, made his first official campaign stop in Wisconsin the same day. Harris and Vance landed on the same Wisconsin tarmac shortly after each other for separate rallies, where Vance took a jab at Harris for not speaking to the media.
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The Milwaukee rally will take place on the second day of the DNC, which will unfold mostly at the United Center. Chicago is expecting to welcome some 50,000 visitors to the city for the convention, including 5,000 delegates and alternates and 15,000 members of the media. Another untold number are expected to descend on the city for protests.
During the day on Tuesday, the DNC will host a women's caucus meeting, disability caucus meeting, as well as council meetings for youth, rural, veteran and military families, poverty and interfaith. Obama has reportedly been tapped to headline the evening's speeches, though an official schedule has not yet been put out.
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