(CALMATTERS) – California is a sure thing for Democrats in the presidential race. So some supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris are heading to Arizona and Nevada — two neighboring states where the outcome is uncertain and could help determine who wins. 

CalMatters’ Ana B. Ibarra spoke with volunteers from Los Angeles who traveled to Las Vegas to knock on doors for the Harris campaign. Among them were Lauretta Darling and her mother Charlotte Barney, who cited abortion rights as an important issue. Two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal protections for abortion, after Donald Trump appointed three justices as president.

  • Darling: “To know that my daughter, my grandkids, my great-great-grandkids, other women to come will not have that right definitely tears me apart. And we need to get that restored.”

The volunteers later joined a two-bus caravan with Latino lawmakers and members of the nonprofit National Domestic Workers Alliance.

On the other side, the California Republican Party is focused on winning the state’s swing congressional districts.

  • Ellie Hockenbury, spokesperson for the California GOP: “The best way for California Republicans to support President Trump is to secure a GOP House majority to help him implement his agenda in Washington.”

Read more about Californians canvassing in swing states in Ana’s story.

But the volunteers might have their work cut out for them — especially if they, say, run into former Californians who fled to Nevada. 

Over the last four years, more than 158,000 Californians have moved to Nevada — making up nearly 43% of its population growth. Some ex-pats who find Nevada’s taxes and business regulations more agreeable could help Trump win their adopted state, reports Politico.

Speaking of the presidential race: Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger joined the list of big-name Republicans endorsing Harris. In a lengthy social media post Wednesday, he said he doesn’t like either party and hates current politics, “which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.” 

But he said he can’t support Trump because of his divisiveness and hate; because another term would “just be four more years of bulls–it with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful;” and “because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets.”

  • Schwarzenegger: “To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious. And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.”