Harris to hold North Carolina rally to outline her plan to lower costs

Vice President Harris will travel to North Carolina for a campaign event Friday, her office announced.

The event in Raleigh, N.C., will be a policy-focused rally where she will discuss “her plan to lower costs for middle-class families and take on corporate price-gouging,” a campaign official told The Hill.

Harris said during a rally in Las Vegas on Saturday that, if elected president, she would support ending taxes on tipping, which is a policy initiative that has become popular with former President Trump on the campaign trail. That proposal could cost up to $200 billion over a decade, a budget watchdog estimated.

The Friday trip will mark Harris’s eighth visit to North Carolina this year. She canceled a trip to the state last week because of Tropical Storm Debby.

The Harris campaign, and President Biden’s reelection campaign before that, has been focused on flipping North Carolina in November. Former President Trump won the state in 2020.

Harris will also travel to Maryland on Thursday for an event alongside Biden that will be similarly focused on plans to lower costs.

Meanwhile, her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), is on his first solo campaign swing. He is in California on Tuesday and then will travel to Colorado, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York.