Harris Campaigns in Tucson, Phoenix In Final Election Push: VIDEO

TUCSON, AZ — With the Nov. 3 election just days away, the campaign trail is in its final and heated stretch.

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., was in Tucson and Phoenix Wednesday to stump for former Vice President Joe Biden in Arizona.

Harris touched down at Tucson International Airport at 10:50 a.m. and set off to meet with local Latina business owners at La Chaiteria, a Mexican food restaurant located in Menlo Park.

According to the campaign, she met with:

• Wendy Garcia, owner, La Chaiteria.

• Marisol Flores-Aguirre, owner, Chulas.

• Frances Erunez & Sandra Otero Erunez, owners, Los Jarritos.

• Vanessa Gallego, owner, Recyco, Inc..

While speaking with reporters, she touched on why the Biden campaign has preferred smaller campaign stops, as opposed to Trump's huge rallies, during the coronavirus pandemic.

“Joe and I have been clear from the beginning, we are gonna talk with voters, but do it in a way that we don’t risk their safety and their health," she said, according to reporting from The Arizona Republic. "And so I would caution anyone who is trying to talk to folks to think about the health and well-being of the people they're speaking with.”

Harris then took part in a drive-thru event at 12:25 p.m. where she spoke to 100 cars of supporters.

“Donald Trump failed. He failed us,” Harris told voters, taking on Trump's handling of the pandemic and the administration's attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “He failed the American people.”

Harris next headed to Phoenix to meet with Black leaders at 2:50 p.m, landing at Sky Harbor International Airport to begin the second portion of her Arizona campaign stop.

She addressed the protests against police brutality taking place in Philadelphia following the death of Walter Wallace as she stepped off of the plane.

“Part of the reason that people are marching in the streets is that there has not been the level of attention, especially recently over the last few years, that is necessary from the president of the United States," she said. "Joe’s committed to that.”

She also expressed support for the creation of a national registry of law-breaking police officers so they aren't hired in one department after being fired from another.

The former California Attorney General also spoke out about expunging the records of people convicted of marijuana offenses and national use of force standards, among other legal issues, while speaking with a small group of supporters at The Van Buren in downtown Phoenix.

While meeting with Black leaders at the event, Harris said that the country's comeback from the coronavirus must be “taking, again, into account racial disparities, understanding we have to do this in a way that’s equitable.”

The pandemic has disproportionately impacted people of color, with Native Americans being the hardest hit by the virus in Arizona.

Her last stop was a second drive-thru event, but Harris was joined this time by Grammy Award-winning singer Alicia Keys.

"I feel the fire!" Keys said in her address to the crowd of 104 cars in a parking lot near Papago Park. "We're showing up for our communities, we're showing up for our loved ones. We vote to show our children that we're doing everything in our power to build a world that's safer, that's saner, that's brighter, that's more equitable for them."

Keys also gave shout outs to Dr. Hiral Tipirneni, the Democrat challenging Rep. David Schweikert for his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, and Mark Kelly, the former astronaut taking on Republican Sen. Martha McSally.

When Harris took the microphone, she evoked the late Arizona Sen. John McCain, a Republic, to "engage in a little straight talk." She said that, contrary to what Trump has said about her, she is a "proud, patriotic American."

Along with touting the campaign's views on climate change, criminal justice and the pandemic, she took a few shots at the Trump administration's handling of the coronavirus and the president's claims about how well the economy was doing pre-pandemic.

"The fact is that in America, even before the pandemic, far too many families had to work two or three jobs to put food on the table and pay rent," Harris said to a flurry of honks. "In Joe Biden and my America, nobody should have to work more than one job to pay rent and put food on the table."

Harris was last in Arizona with Biden on Oct. 8 when they met with Native American leaders and small business owners in Phoenix.

But Harris isn't the only member of the ticket in town: President Donald Trump is heading to Bullhead City and Goodyear near Phoenix to rally voters and try to clinch Arizona's 11 electoral votes.

A longtime Republican stronghold, Arizona's shifting demographics could turn it purple. Trump won the state by just four points in 2016 but the most recent poll average compiled by FiveThirtyEight show him trailing Biden by nearly three points.

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This article originally appeared on the Tucson Patch