Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris addresses Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and his wife, Gwen Walz, at a campaign event in August in Rochester, Pa. Julia Nikhinson/Associated Press

Gwen Walz, wife of vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, will visit Bangor and Portland on Friday as the Harris-Walz campaign looks to drive enthusiasm in the final two months before the election.

Walz will attend grassroots campaign events to meet with volunteers and voters in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District in Bangor, according to the Maine Harris-Walz campaign.

She will also rally voters at a Portland campaign event.

Further details of the visit, including the precise locations where Walz will be appearing, were not available Wednesday.

The visit comes on the heels of the first presidential debate, held in Philadelphia on Tuesday, between Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, and former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee.

The Harris campaign had previously announced that, following the debate, it would be launching a tour with stops in battleground states to mobilize support and reach voters in the closing weeks before the election.

While Maine as a whole is considered reliably Democratic, the state is one of just two that split their electoral votes. In recent years, the 2nd Congressional District has shifted Republican, with Donald Trump winning there in both 2016 and 2020 to secure one of Maine’s four electoral votes.

That one vote in the 2nd District could play an important role in a close election, although political analysts say it’s unlikely it would be the lone deciding factor. Analysts and pollsters are also closely watching Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District, because that state also splits its electoral votes and the 2nd District there is seen as a swing district.

There hasn’t been much polling in Maine this election cycle, so it’s hard to know what the mood is here.

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, left, Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, right, and his wife Gwen Walz arrive at Pittsburgh International Airport in August. Julia Nikhinson/Associated Press

A University of New Hampshire Survey Center poll conducted in mid-August showed that Harris was leading Trump, 55% to 38%, statewide in Maine. The poll had Harris up 5 percentage points in the 2nd District, leading Trump 49% to 44%, which was surprising given that Trump won the 2nd District by 7 percentage points in 2020 and 10 points in 2016.

The poll surveyed nearly 1,000 people between Aug. 15 and 19 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

Gwen Walz is an educator and the first lady of Minnesota, where her husband is governor. She met Tim Walz while teaching in Nebraska and the couple have two children, Hope and Gus. Gwen Walz has been an advocate for education in America’s prisons, criminal justice reform and LGBTQ+ rights, according to a biography on the website of the Minnesota governor’s office.

On the campaign trail, she and her husband have discussed their own fertility challenges to highlight the need for reproductive health care, including fertility treatments.

The Harris campaign has been active in getting its message out in Maine since Harris took over the Democratic ticket in late July.

The campaign, in conjunction with Maine Democrats, has opened 21 offices around the state, including one in each county and 11 in the 2nd District, and has more than three dozen staff here.

Multiple national surrogates have also visited to campaign for Harris, including her husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, who has visited Maine twice since his wife became the Democratic nominee.

The Trump campaign doesn’t appear to have sent any national surrogates to Maine so far this election cycle, although House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., campaigned for Republican U.S. House candidate Austin Theriault in Auburn.

A spokesperson for the Republican National Committee said late last month in response to questions about the Trump campaign’s presence in Maine that the campaign is utilizing the Trump Force 47 program, a joint effort by the campaign and RNC, to engage people around the country.

The program focuses on recruiting people to “participate in a neighbor-to-neighbor organizing program that is hyper-focused on mobilizing highly targeted voters in critical precincts.”