Former President Barack Obama is set to be in Madison Tuesday next week to boost Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris.
Obama is set to be in Madison with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for a rally to drum up support for Democratic candidates up and down the ballot on the first day of in-person early voting in Wisconsin.
The news comes three weeks out from the November election, in which Harris will face off against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his vice president pick JD Vance.
President Barack Obama waves from the door of Air Force One as he departs Truax Field in Madison on Nov. 4, 2009.
Obama has drawn large crowds in Madison in previous visits, attracting some 17,000 people to the Kohl Center in 2008, just before he won the Democratic primary the same year he first took office as the first Black U.S. President.
Now, Obama is putting his might behind the candidate who could become the first Black woman U.S. President.
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One of his previous visits to Madison included a 2007 visit to Monona Terrace during his first bid for president in which he drew about 4,000 people despite the venue’s 1,500-person capacity.
He also drew some 30,000 people to UW-Madison’s Bascom Hill during a 2012 visit on the campaign trail that led to his second term in office. And in 2010, Obama stopped by La Follette High School to talk with students in order to drum up support for candidates in the midterm cycle.
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The visit also comes just a few weeks after Trump came to Waunakee, marking the first time a Republican presidential candidate visited Dane County since Kansas U.S. Sen. Bob Dole in 1996.
