Kamala Harris to hold Get Out the Vote rally at UW-Madison with Mumford & Sons and more celebrity musicians next week

Vice President Kamala Harris will return to Wisconsin Wednesday for a Get Out the Vote rally at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, just days before the Nov. 5 election.

The rally will feature performances by Gracie Abrams, Mumford & Sons, Remi Wolf, and The National’s Matt Berninger and Aaron Dessner, according to the campaign.

The event comes as Harris and former President Donald Trump are each making a final push to win votes in this important swing state ahead of Nov. 5, when they will go head-to-head in their bids for the White House.

The effort to turn out UW-Madison students and Dane County voters comes about a month after Harris made her first visit to Wisconsin's capital city since launching her presidential campaign in July.

Former President Barack Obama rallied the liberal base in Madison last week on the first day of early voting.

The visits highlight Dane County's increasing importance in elections as its population grows, outpacing others across the state.

Harris's event will also come two days before Trump plans to hold a rally in downtown Milwaukee, another Democratic stronghold that Trump's campaign has nonetheless invested in at the urging of top state Republicans. It's also happening the same day Trump holds a campaign rally in the Green Bay suburb of Ashwaubenon in the evening.

As the state's two largest population centers, Dane and Milwaukee counties are also home to a lot of Republicans due to their sheer size.

Harris was in the state Monday night for a campaign event in Brookfield, where she was joined by former Republican U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney to make a pitch to undecided voters.

Alison Dirr can be reached at [email protected].

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Kamala Harris to rally at UW-Madison on Oct. 30 with Mumford & Sons