Vice President Kamala Harris will be in Detroit on Monday for a Labor Day event, her presidential campaign team confirmed.
Details of the event were not announced, but unions – whose members form a key voting bloc – hold an annual parade through Detroit on Labor Day morning, a tradition that dates back to 1915.
Democratic politicians were an integral part of the event.
President Joe Biden spoke at the parade in Detroit in 2014 while serving as vice president. Then-President Barack Obama spoke in 2011. And former President Bill Clinton walked in the parade in 2016 when his wife, Hillary Clinton, was running for president.
Harris’ planned visit is the latest in a series of visits to Michigan by the Democratic presidential candidate and her Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, who are neck and neck in the state, according to the latest poll results.
Trump was in Detroit on Monday and will be back in Michigan on Thursday for a campaign rally in Potterville. Harris last visited Michigan in early August, when she held a large rally at Detroit Metro Airport in Romulus and then spoke to members of the United Auto Workers union in Wayne.
According to the White House, Harris will continue Labor Day after her visit to Detroit by joining Biden at an event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, another crucial swing state in the upcoming presidential election.
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