Harris focuses on Nikki Haley's primary voters in closing weeks of campaign

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70% : In the final stretch before the 2024 election, Vice President Kamala Harris embarked on a three-state tour across battleground states to court swing voters -- with a particular focus on those who backed former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in the Republican presidential primary earlier this year.Harris' pitch was remarkably similar to the foreign policy warning about Trump that Haley delivered when she was a presidential candidate.
42% : "To me, the stark contrast between a Trump and Harris administration are what led me to say, yes, I need to, you know, I'm going to be voting with Trump, and I'm going to speak at the convention," she said.
41% : A senior Harris campaign official said the campaign believes this is an indication of suburban voters' discontent with Trump.
40% : In her race against Trump during the primaries, Haley won nearly 55,000 votes in Oakland County, Michigan.
36% : "In an interview with "Fox and Friends" last week, Trump said "I'll do what I have to do" when asked if he'd be requesting Haley's help, but he reiterated that he "beat her badly."
29% : Claiming Trump would surrender Ukraine to Russia, Harris added, "that is signaling to the President of Russia he can get away with what he has done.
25% : "The former U.N. ambassador in January said of Trump, "You don't befriend dictators and thugs who want to kill us."
24% : While Harris tries to woo former Haley supporters, Haley herself is ready to campaign for Trump, despite her warnings about him months ago.
15% : Trump, Harris said, "is so clearly able to be manipulated by favor and flattery including from dictators and autocrats around the world, and America knows that that is not how we stand.
11% : The vice president has been relying on Republicans to help make her appeal to these voters, including former Rep. Liz Cheney, an outspoken critic of Trump who has endorsed Harris and campaigned with her this week.
6% : "Haley criticized Trump in similar terms.

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