But with less than two weeks to go before Election Day, Vice-President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party have at least partly set their sights on less friendly territory: Texas. On Tuesday, the Harris-Walz campaign announced that the vice-president would be traveling to Houston on Friday,

Later this week Texas is taking center stage in the presidential race. Vice President Kamala Harris is heading to Houston. On the same day former President Donald Trump is set to come to Austin. KXAN's Tom Miller talked to Alex Gangitano with The Hill about the two candidates different missions in the Lone Star State.

HOUSTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will team up with Beyoncé on Friday for a rally in solidly Republican Texas aimed at highlighting the perilous medical fallout from the state's strict abortion ban and putting the blame squarely on Donald Trump.

Harris often plays Beyoncé's song Freedom at campaign events, but the singer has so far remained absent from the campaign trail. Earlier this summer, rumours swirled that Beyoncé would make an appearance on behalf of Harris at August's Democratic National Convention,

Harris's presidential campaign has taken on Beyonce's track “Freedom” as its anthem, and the singer's planned appearance brings a high-level of star power to what has become a key theme of the Democratic nominee’s bid: freedom.