What is the 'blue wall,' and what does it mean for 2024 election?

(NewsNation) — With little than a period until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris is making stops this week successful 3 states that experts accidental are captious to winning the White House.

Harris, the Democratic statesmanlike nominee, is visiting Michigan connected Tuesday for an lawsuit with Charlamagne tha God and different 1 with Black entrepreneurs successful Detroit following a Monday travel to Pennsylvania. Next, she’s acceptable to question to Wisconsin.

All 3 states are portion of the alleged “blue wall," a acceptable of states that person typically voted for Democrats successful statesmanlike elections since 1992.

Which states are portion of the bluish wall?

California, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin are included arsenic portion of the “blue wall.” Of these, California is the largest, arsenic it has 54 electoral votes, followed by New York with 28.

Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, especially, are apical priorities for candidates successful the 2024 election. Trump, successful 2016, flipped the states to Republican, but Biden was capable to triumph them backmost successful 2020.

Could Trump interruption the bluish wall?

NewsNation spouse The Hill writes that Harris and Trump are polling wrong adjacent margins of each different successful Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

Harris has a 0.7% pb implicit Trump successful Pennsylvania, according to Decision Desk HQ/The Hill’s canvass aggregate, portion Trump has a 0.8% vantage successful Michigan and 0.1% much than the vice president successful Wisconsin.

“There’s nary getting astir the information that those 3 states successful the alleged bluish partition are pivotal to some campaigns,” Al Mottur, a Democratic strategist and bundler astatine Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, told The Hill.