PHILADELPHIA – The push for Pennsylvania is in full swing and won’t be coming to an end anytime soon. With just 82 days until Election Day, surrogates for the Harris-Walz campaign were in Brewerytown Thursday trying to keep the momentum going.

“We’ve got work to do. We’ve got to knock on doors. We’ve got to bring people out,” State Sen. Sharif Street said.

Democrats in the state are trying to capitalize on energy they say they’ve seen since Vice President Kamala Harris took over the top of the party’s ticket. The Harris campaign said in a media release on Thursday it’s seen more than 43,000 Pennsylvanians sign up to volunteer for the campaign since President Biden dropped out.

One of them is Joy Bobb of East Oak Lane, who said she signed up last week.

“Absolutely I feel more energized, yes,” Bobb said. “I just want to be one more voice to let people know that this is the most important election of our lifetime.”

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Austin Davis told CBS News Philadelphia that the Harris campaign also has 36 field offices across the commonwealth. 

But the Trump campaign is also putting down roots.

“We have over two dozen offices in the great state of Pennsylvania. Thousands of volunteers, new ones every day,” said Caroline Sunshine, the 

deputy director of communications for the Trump campaign.

Sunshine pointed to the Trump team’s “Trump Force 47” initiative, where people can sign up to volunteer online and select what roles they’d like to play. Sunshine claims they’ve had an array of voters stopping by their offices.

“We’re seeing first-time voters, we’re seeing people who lean Democrat, disaffected Democrats, moderates, we’re seeing people who haven’t always been likely Trump voters in the past,” Sunshine said.

Still, Harris supporters say they need to work to keep this momentum up through next week’s Democratic National Convention and into November.

“Momentum is shifting. People are fired up, and I’ve seen it all across Pennsylvania,” Davis said. “For the next 81 days, I don’t think this momentum is going to stop. This train’s going to keep on moving.”

Ahead of their scheduled appearances in Pennsylvania this weekend, Vice President Kamala Harris’ and former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaigns are slated to make stops in North Carolina and Wisconsin Friday.

Democrat Harris is expected to speak at a campaign event in Raleigh on Friday, marking her eighth visit to the state this year. Details for the event have not yet been announced, but Harris will reportedly focus on policy at the rally with the discussion centering on her administration’s plan to “lower costs for middle-class families and take on corporate price-gouging,” The Hill reports.

The stop makes up for the cancelation of a planned North Carolina last week, which was postponed due to the impacts of Tropical Storm Debby. It will also come following an expected appearance in Prince George’s County, Md. Thursday with President Joe Biden, which serves as Harris and Biden’s first campaign stop together since Biden announced he was dropping out of the presidential race last month.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, meanwhile, is continuing his first solo tour of five battleground states since being announced as Harris’ choice as her running mate.. Walz was slated to appear in Newport, R.I. and South Hampton, N.Y. Thursday.

The Harris-Walz ticket will then return to Pennsylvania Sunday for a bus tour in Pittsburgh that is scheduled to make several stops across the western portion of the Keystone State. That tour comes a day ahead of the start of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and will also feature appearances from second gentleman Doug Emhoff and Minnesota first lady Gwen Walz in a first for the campaign.

Trump, the Republican nominee, has no publicly announced campaign stops Friday, but his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R., Ohio) is slated to appear at a campaign event in Milwaukee. Vance’s Wisconsin appears comes following a Thursday stop in New Kensington, Pa., where he spoke at a VFW post.

While Trump had no events on the calendar Friday, he was expected Thursday to hold a news conference in New Jersey at his Bedminster golf club. That event was slated to begin at 4:30 p.m.

Trump will then return to Pennsylvania Saturday for a rally in Wilkes-Barre at the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza. That appearances marks his second in Pennsylvania since surviving an assassination attempt in Butler County on July 13. Trump previously held a rally in Harrisburg on July 31, two weeks after the shooting.

On Monday, Trump told Elon Musk in a conversation on X Spaces that he plans to return to Butler for another rally in October. In previous social media messaging, Trump said that the rally would honor Corey Comperatore, a former Buffalo Township fire chief who was killed in the July 13 assassination attempt, as well as two other people injured in the shooting.

Harris and Trump are also scheduled to debate one another Sept. 10 in an event hosted by ABC. Trump has said that the debate will take place at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, but its location and venue have not yet been confirmed, the network told The Inquirer.