I'm Alex Mark Ward in tonight for Wolf Blitzer.

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States

and around the world.

This is the situation room,

and you've been listening to Vice President Kamala Harris

there taking part in her second event of the day in the battleground state of Michigan.

Let's discuss the Obama factor and more with all of our political experts.

Alex Thompson, this was an event that follows her event yesterday with Liz Cheney in

Ripon, Wisconsin that was designed to reach out I think towards disaffected

Republicans. This was a bit more of her wheelhouse. There's

labor support in the building. How are things looking for her in Michigan?

Well today was all about shoring up some problems that she has with her base right now.

The fact is that the Teamsters have not endorsed.

The firefighters this week did not endorse.

Those were two unions that endorsed Joe Biden four years ago.

And so it was not a coincidence that she talked a lot about

working class Americans and and then just before this she met privately with

Arab Americans and Muslim groups to try to show up as those groups are very

concerned about the escalating more than the Middle East. Yeah and meisha to

that point I mean she had this important meeting today with Arab and Muslim

leaders they are very angry, understandably,

about the war not just in Gaza but now the expanding war in Lebanon. Break down

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