Vice President Kamala Harris will join the Obamas for “Get Out The Vote” events in the battleground states of Georgia and Michigan, marking the first time she’s hitting the trail with either former President Barack Obama or Michelle Obama, according to a senior campaign official.

As Election Day nears, campaign advisers are turning their focus to voter turnout, bringing in surrogates to mobilize voters in critical states.

Today, Harris will appear with former President Obama in Georgia, where early voting has begun.

On Saturday, she’ll head to Michigan to appear with Michelle Obama to mark the first day of voting in the state. It will also be the former first lady’s first time on the trail for the Harris-Walz campaign.

More on the the Harris-Obama relationship: Obama and Harris have been acquainted for 20 years. The energy fueling her candidacy and thunderous crowds chanting her name have drawn comparisons to Obama’s history-making 2008 run.

Earlier this month, Obama admonished Black men who are hesitating to back Harris, telling them it’s “not acceptable” to sit out this election and suggesting they might be reluctant to vote for the vice president because she’s a woman.

The former president campaigned alongside Harris’ running mate, Tim Walz, in Michigan earlier this week.

The race for president in Georgia is tied at 49% each among likely voters, with no clear leader in Arizona (50% Trump to 49% Harris) or North Carolina (50% Trump to 48% Harris) according to a trio of new polls from Marist College, while a Franklin and Marshall College poll finds Trump at 50% to Harris’ 49% among Pennsylvania likely voters.

F&M’s poll suggests little change in the numbers among registered voters since their previous poll in September (currently 48% Harris to 44% Trump among that group, compared with a 49% Harris to 46% Trump finding in September), but shifting to likely voters in the new poll boosts support for Trump.

The Marist polls suggest little movement in any of those three states since Marist’s last polls in September, with identical results in Arizona, and neither candidate moving more than 1 point compared with the previous result in Georgia or North Carolina.

Across polls of likely voters, results in Arizona have tilted more in Trump’s direction than Harris’ this fall, while in Georgia and North Carolina they have been more mixed. In North Carolina, there hasn’t been a single poll that meets CNN’s standards for reporting that has found either candidate leading outside the margin of error since Harris entered the race in July.

Pennsylvania’s recent polling has included some suggesting a significant Harris lead, while others show a near-even divide. The CNN Poll of Polls average in Pennsylvania now stands at a one-point margin, with Harris at 48% to Trump’s 47%, a finding with no clear leader. Averages in the other three states are unchanged from previous results, and continue to show tight races.

The Harris campaign is touting endorsements by two more typically conservative figures in Blue wall battleground states.

Waukesha Mayor Shawn Reilly, who changed his party affiliation from Republican to independent, told a local station on Wednesday that he’s casting his ballot for Harris this year.

Former Republican Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan will also announce his endorsement of Harris this morning, according to the vice president’s campaign.

Upton was one of 10 House Republicans to vote to impeach Trump in the aftermath of the Capitol riot. He announced in early 2022 he would not seek reelection.

The campaign highlights signs of Trump’s potential weaknesses with the Republican electorate in the midwestern states.

No presidential candidate in history has had to field questions on grocery prices and her opponent’s alleged fascism at the same event.

But the almost absurd linkage between these two issues that Kamala Harris must confront perfectly tells the story of the 2024 election and America’s fierce estrangement nine years into the Donald Trump era.

Just after 1 p.m. ET on Wednesday, the Democratic nominee emerged from the front door of her official residence in Washington to pose this question:

She got her answer eight hours later, at a CNN town hall in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, one of the Philadelphia suburbs where she needs a massive turnout to beat the former president in an election only 12 days away.

Thirty-two voters who were still undecided sought answers from Harris on the country’s polarized political tumult, on punishing prices at the grocery store and on an immigration crisis the Biden administration struggled to address. She was asked about the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza. Someone else worried about the surge in antisemitism in the United States. Harris was asked to explain her policy reversals on fracking and her plans to hike taxes on the rich. One voter wanted to know whether she’d increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court to 12 – a step that would water down the conservative majority.

Each question that Harris received represented not just a chance to interact with one single voter but to reach millions more countrywide with the same concerns.

Read the full analysis.

Over and over, Vice President Kamala Harris argued at a CNN town hall Wednesday night that Republican rival Donald Trump is “unstable” and “unfit to serve.”

The Democratic nominee’s message in the closing weeks 2024 presidential race is squarely focused on warning Americans — particularly undecided independents and moderate Republicans — that Trump poses a threat to the nation’s core principles.

Here are some key takeaways:

Yes, Harris thinks Trump is a fascist: Harris was asked Wednesday night if she considers Trump a fascist.

Harris pointed to senior military leaders who served under Trump and have said the former president is a fascist — including the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, and Trump’s former White House chief of staff, retired Marine general John Kelly

Harris promises “a new generation of leadership”: Harris has faced repeated questions on the trail over how — and to what degree — she would break from President Joe Biden on policy. Mostly, she has brushed them off.

On Wednesday night, though, Harris seemed more comfortable with the proposition and argued that, if she was elected, change would follow.

After ticking off a few major policy plans, like having Medicare cover home health care for the elderly, Harris returned to what she described as “a new approach.”

Border security and migration a tricky area: By both CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and audience members, the vice president was pressed on border security.

She was asked on the record number of illegal border crossings that occurred during the Biden administration in spite of multiple executive orders. That flow had only begun to shrink after a major executive action earlier this year, Cooper noted, and asked why Biden and Harris hadn’t done something sooner.

Harris argued that the Biden administration, and she personally, believed that executive actions were just short-term solutions and that a long-term fix could only happen through a bipartisan agreement in Congress. She stressed the need for a large bipartisan bill on border security.

Read more key takeaways from the town hall.

Some voters who stayed to talk with CNN after the town hall with Kamala Harris on Wednesday in Pennsylvania said they have made up their mind. Two of five of the voters who spoke with CNN’s John King are leaving the town hall planning to vote for Harris — but others said they still have major policy concerns.

One of the voters, Joe Donahue, did not raise his hand when asked if he was going to vote for Harris and said there are still some “personal policy difference,” specifically on abortion.

“The right to life is so fundamental in this country that it becomes — without that right being respected, it’s incredibly difficult to talk about anything else,” Donahue said.

Still, Donahue said he is still “not sold” on former President Donald Trump either because “his personality” and his actions on January 6, 2021. Harris spoke with him after the town hall, which he said meant “quite a bit” to him and appreciated given the fact that they have opposing ideas.

Pam Thistle said she left the town hall with a “a feeling of adoration” for Harris personally, but as a widow raising children, the economy and paying her bills is her top concern: “I really do have to vote for my family.”

Taneisha Spall echoed that sentiment, saying she would respect Harris more if she stayed out of the “schoolyard bulling” and ran on her policy positions. She said she doesn’t feel like Harris needs to lodge attacks and that she thinks “it’s beneath her.”

Erik Svendsen said he has decided to vote for Harris. He said hearing Harris admit that she doesn’t know the answer to everything and she has people around her that she can trust resonated with him.

“I don’t need a president that knows everything or thinks they know everything, because that’s not what America needs,” Svendsen said. “They need to put the right people in the right place to lead the country efficiently. One person can’t lead this country, they need a team.”