Why VP Harris is seen as critical to Biden's reelection campaign
The vice president has been traveling across the country, giving increasingly higher-profile remarks to key voting groups.
Vice President Kamala Harris is on a mission to court a distinct part of the Democratic base.
"She's really been mobilizing a lot of the voters that we need ... like young people, women, voters of color," said Sheila Nix, Harris's chief of staff for the 2024 reelection campaign.
These groups were all critical to Biden's victory in 2020, but polls suggest his support among young voters and voters of color is slipping. Some Democrats see Harris, a 59-year-old Black and Asian woman, as being better able to motivate these
