NEW YORK – Vice President Kamala Harris will visit New Jersey on Friday to promote the COVID-19 vaccine and President Joe Biden’s spending plan.
The vice president will meet with Gov. Phil Murphy and then visit a childcare facility and a COVID-19 vaccination site.
Harris departed Washington around 9:30 a.m. on her way to Newark Liberty International Airport.
Her first stop is Ben Samuels Children’s Center at Montclair State University at 11:45 a.m., when she’ll participate in a roundtable conversation on “the importance of federal investment in childcare,” which is part of the administration’s economic agenda.
From there, she’ll head to a vaccination site at Essex County College in Newark, where she'll take part in a tour around 2:40 p.m.
Harris was scheduled to depart the Garden State for D.C. around 4:35 p.m.
Biden visited New Jersey last month to survey damage from Hurricane Ida.
Harris also has familial ties to the state: Brooklyn-born Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff grew up in Matawan and Old Bridge Township from 1969 to 1981, and attended the now-shuttered Cedar Ridge High School.
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