Kamala Har­ris plans to skip his­toric Al Smith din­ner despite long-stand­ing tra­di­tion: report

Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris’ pres­i­den­tial cam­paign report­ed­ly announced Har­ris will skip the his­toric Al Smith din­ner, eschew­ing a decades-old cam­paign tradition.The deci­sion was first report­ed by CNN Sat­ur­day after­noon, cit­ing Har­ris cam­paign offi­cials. The cam­paign report­ed­ly told event orga­niz­ers Har­ris was instead plan­ning to cam­paign in a bat­tle­ground state, but the report did not spec­i­fy which state Har­ris will be cam­paign­ing in.The annu­al Alfred E. Smith Memo­r­i­al Foun­da­tion Din­ner is tra­di­tion­al­ly held in New York Cit …