Vance Is Touring the Same Battleground States as Harris This Week

Senator JD Vance thought he would meet Vice President Kamala Harris on the debate stage. Instead, it might be on an airport tarmac.

The Republican vice-presidential nominee will spend much of this week chasing Ms. Harris across the map of battleground states to counterprogram the Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign.

On Tuesday, Mr. Vance will campaign in Philadelphia just hours before Ms. Harris speaks in the same city at Temple University. Ms. Harris is expected to introduce her running mate, who will become Mr. Vance’s rival, at her event.

On Wednesday, both will hold afternoon events in Eau Claire, Wis., before evening stops in Michigan: Ms. Harris will visit Detroit while Mr. Vance heads to Shelby Township, one of the city’s northern suburbs. On Thursday, the two will campaign in North Carolina’s Research Triangle.

“We appreciate JD Vance providing voters in battleground states exactly the split-screen that defines the choice this November: a ticket focused on building an America of opportunity, lower costs, and more freedom — or an America modeled after the Trump-Vance Project 2025 agenda of extremism, less freedom, and an economy that benefits only billionaires and big corporations,” said Charles Lutvak, a spokesman for Ms. Harris.

Since President Biden dropped out of the race last month, Mr. Vance has joked that he was disappointed because he wanted to debate with Ms. Harris. And he has focused much of his campaigning on attacking Ms. Harris, who will replace Mr. Biden at the top of her party’s ticket.

A Trump campaign official said that Mr. Vance was likely to continue criticizing Ms. Harris on energy issues while framing her as a “dangerous” liberal.

Last week he visited the U.S.-Mexico border, where he criticized her handling of immigration issues and mocked her for living in Canada during her teenage years. At an event in Nevada, he called her a “wacky San Francisco liberal.”

Mr. Trump, meantime, has just one stop scheduled this week — a rally in Montana, where he has endorsed Tim Sheehy, a businessman and former Navy SEAL, who is attempting to unseat Senator Jon Tester, a Democrat who was elected in 2006.