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First Lady Dr. Jill Biden visiting Georgia as part of tour to promote military families initiative

The Biden-Harris campaign announced the Veterans Military Families for Biden-Harris program early Monday.

ATLANTA — First Lady Dr. Jill Biden is visiting Georgia as part of a three-stop tour the Biden campaign is utilizing to launch a new initiative aimed at organizing military families, the campaign announced early Monday morning.

A release by the Biden campaign stated: "Today, Biden-Harris 2024 is launching Veterans and Military Families for Biden-Harris, a national organizing program led by First Lady Jill Biden—a military mom, grandmom, and daughter of a veteran. Dr. Biden will kick off the coalition launch with a three state, one-day tour, hitting Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida—three key states with high populations of veterans and military families."

The three state one-day tour included North Carolina,  Florida and her Columbus stop in Georgia.

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The campaign said additional events would also be held in battleground states including Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire.

"Veterans and Military Families for Biden-Harris will engage and mobilize millions of veterans and military families across the country through battleground state events, relational organizing and online engagement," the campaign's release said.

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