The presidential campaign of Kamala Harris has hit a series of snags in recent weeks, and powerful Democrats have rallied in an effort to salvage her electoral prospects.

In that vein, former first lady Michelle Obama has marshalled the get-out-the-vote organization with which she is affiliated, doing so close on the heels of a barnstorming trip taken by her husband, former President Barack Obama, which did not necessarily have its desired effect, as the Daily Mail reports.

Electoral urgency becomes evident

Aside from her well-received speech at the Democratic National Convention earlier this year, Mrs. Obama has done her best to remain above the fray during the current presidential election cycle.

Her reluctance to wade into the political waters even extended to declining loud calls among members of the Democratic Party to serve as its candidate for the highest office in the land.

Now, however, in the dwindling weeks of the 2024 campaign, Mrs. Obama appears to feel a sudden sense of urgency about the upcoming contest, as she is working to spur interest in concerts and rally-style events featuring famous Democrats through the “Party at the Polls” program spearheaded by the When We All Vote organization.

Swing state push underway

The group plans to host a series of events, all of which will take place in one of seven critical battleground states, jurisdictions likely to determine the outcome of the presidential race.

A two-day concert extravaganza set for Oct. 26 in Atlanta is poised to serve as a crescendo to the organization's efforts, with headliners Jill Scott, Cardi B., and Earth Wind and Fire slated to perform.

Tickets for the event -- and even airfare to Georgia -- can be won via a sweepstakes contest that registered voters are eligible to win.

Other events on the organization's schedule include a 5K walk hosted by actor Mark Ruffalo in Arizona and “Drag Out the Vote” shows staged by veterans of RuPaul's Drag Race in Las Vegas and Phoenix.

Block parties in key localities such as Philadelphia are also on tap, with organizers expressing high hopes of maximizing voter turnout for Democratic Party candidates up and down the ballot, but with a particular focus on the presidential race.

Bailing out Barack

The eleventh-hour push by the Michelle Obama-affiliated organization comes in the wake of her husband's controversial campaign stops in Pennsylvania, where he ended up drawing the ire of the very demographic group he hoped to sway.

As The Independent noted, Mr. Obama spoke to a group of Black male voters last week and lectured them -- arguably in condescending fashion -- about what he said was a lack of enthusiasm for Harris' campaign in comparison to his own presidential bids and that of Joe Biden in 2020.

Suggesting that the issue “seems to be more pronounced with the brothers,” Obama hinted that sexism was perhaps to blame for an unwillingness to back Harris.

Obama's commentary drew criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike, with Adam B. Coleman writing in the New York Post, “The tactic of racial manipulation by the Democratic Party is what pushed me, a black man, away from the party into political independence. The idea that someone deserves my vote only because I exist in a particular image while everyone else gets a choice has always felt incredibly insulting to me,” and given the size of the backlash to the former president's comments, he is far from alone.