By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent
Kamala Harris is going to go aggressive against Donald Trump in a post-debate campaign swing through two critical battleground states that will help decide the election.
She’ll even do more media interviews – after facing repeated criticism she has not held a formal press conference since being the Democratic nominee – and will fan her surrogates out across the country in the coming days.
Her new ‘aggressive phase’ will include campaign stops in North Carolina on Thursday and in Pennsylvania on Friday. Her campaign will also release an array of new ads that feature key moments from the debate, where she repeatedly got under Trump’s skin.
Trump, meanwhile, is headed West. He’ll campaign in Arizona on Thursday. On Friday, he’ll hold a press conference in Los Angeles and then a rally that evening in Nevada.
Polls show a majority of viewers think Harris won Tuesday evening’s presidential debate. Now it’s a question if she can keep up that momentum.
Harris’s team is calling her push her New Way Forward Tour and it includes ‘launching a suite of new TV and digital ads featuring key moments from the debate, engaging more with media, and fanning surrogates and supporters out to battleground states to share Harris’ message from the debate,’ her campaign said.
Tim Walz, her running mate, will also be doing more media engagements as part of their strategy.
Harris, for her part, will do additional local battleground state media interviews in the coming days, and next week she is expected to participate in a discussion with journalists at the National Association of Black Journalists.
It’s a full team effort.
Walz will campaign in Michigan on Thursday and Friday. He’ll be in Wisconsin on Saturday.
Doug Emhoff will campaign in Arizona and Nevada on Thursday.
Gwen Walz will campaign Thursday in Manchester, New Hampshire, and in Maine on Friday.