Kamala Harris, the first female, Black, and South Asian vice president, is set to name her running mate as she prepares for a tour of US battleground states. All paths to the White House run through a handful of swing states, with Harris starting her five-day run in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. The campaign is about people coming together, fueled by love of country, to fight for the best of who we are.

Harris has obliterated fundraising records, attracted huge crowds, and dominated social media on her way to erasing the polling leads Trump had built before President Joe Biden quit the race. The next on the agenda is a vice presidential pick, with an announcement expected any time before her rally Tuesday evening alongside the mystery nominee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s largest city.

The Keystone State, which is part of the “blue wall” that carried Biden to the White House in 2020, is part of the closely fought battlegrounds that decide the Electoral College system. Harris will tour the more racially diverse Sun Belt and southern states of Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, and North Carolina to shore up the Black and Hispanic vote that had been peeling away from the Democrats.

Trump’s White House bid was upended on July 21 when 81-year-old Biden exited the race and backed Harris. Energetic and two decades younger than 78-year-old Trump, the vice president has made a fast start, raising $310 million in July, according to her campaign. Harris has focused on the future, making voters’ hard-fought “freedom” the touchstone of her campaign.

While she has disavowed some of the leftist positions she took during her ill-fated 2020 primary campaign, she hasn’t given a wide-ranging interview since jumping into the race, and rally-goers will look for more detail on her plans for the country.