Vice President Kamala Harris is setting her sights on Detroit for an upcoming visit as the battle for Michigan heats up before the November presidential election. Charlamagne tha God, the influencer and radio host, will host a live interview with Harris on Tuesday, October 15, at 2 p.m. Eastern time, as revealed on his Instagram account. The exact location in Detroit has not been announced, but the full discussion will be broadcast to the public, reports WWMT.
Amid efforts to connect with a broader audience, Harris and her opposition, Donald Trump, are both engaging with less traditional media outlets. Recently, in a bid to capture the votes of the less traditonally engaged, the former president disparaged Detroit during a speech at the Detroit Economic Club. "Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she's your president," Trump declared, as reported by CBS News Detroit.
Harris's campaign confirmed that after engaging with voters in various parts of metro Detroit and rallying in Flint, the vice president is now turning to the airwaves for a radio town hall event with Charlamagne, whose show The Breakfast Club is a known hotbed for political discussion. As the campaign enters its final weeks, this visit marks Harris's tenth to the state, trailing Trump's dozen appearances, according to a candidate tracker by the Detroit Free Press, as noted by CBS News Detroit.
The choice to appear on Charlamagne's show reflects a wider strategy to engage with audiences via platforms that extend beyond traditional campaign stops, following prior conversations with personalities such as Oprah Winfrey at a private town hall in Farmington Hills, as FOX 2 Detroit reports.