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WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris heads to Dallas on Tuesday afternoon to raise money for the 2024 campaign.

She’ll also talk about abortion rights in the hometown of Roe vs. Wade, four days shy of a year since the Supreme Court struck down the landmark ruling.

The closed-door donor reception, scheduled for 5:30 p.m. CT, is part of a fundraising blitz ahead of the deadline for mid-year campaign finance reports used as a barometer of enthusiasm.

President Joe Biden has four such stops this week, in California, Maryland, Illinois and New York.

First lady Jill Biden had stops scheduled in Minneapolis and Nashville, Tenn. Top campaign aides and Harris’ husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, who’ll join her in Dallas, are also fanning out across the country to stockpile funds for next year.

Harris has no public appearances scheduled for the few hours she’ll be in Texas.

She does plan to sit down with MSNBC’s Joy Reid for a special edition of “The ReidOut” focused on “the abortion landscape post-Roe.” The interview will be taped at 3:15 p.m. and air at 6 p.m.

The vice president has been the administration’s point person on abortion rights, holding regular meetings with activists to maintain public pressure and project ongoing concern from the White House.

On June 24, the Supreme Court ended nearly a half-century of recognition that women have a constitutional right to end a pregnancy, until the fetus becomes viable outside the womb.

Texas almost immediately imposed a blanket ban on abortion. In 1973, the Supreme Court had struck down a similar Texas statute challenged by a woman known in court as Jane Roe, who sued the longtime Dallas County District attorney, the late Henry Wade.

Since the end of the Roe era nearly a year ago, the Biden administration has tried to expand access to abortion drugs. States controlled by Democrats have codified a right to abortion under state law, as many other states in GOP hands have vastly curbed access.

Biden held his first campaign rally Saturday in Philadelphia with a friendly union audience.

Harris’s role in the campaign so far is confined to fundraising.

These donor receptions are typically small, high-dollar affairs. They’re off-camera, and the informality and friendly, intimate settings seem to encourage the candidates and their proxies to let loose.

On New York’s tony Upper East Side last week, the first lady contrasted her husband’s “strong, steady leadership” with the “chaos and corruption, hatred and division” of “MAGA Republicans.”

And she told donors it’s “shocking” that any Republicans still support Donald Trump since his indictment for keeping a trove of classified documents after leaving office.

That’s a topic the president himself has largely avoided.

The president, speaking with 40 or so donors Friday evening in a living room in posh Greenwich, Conn., issued a whopper about Texas as he touted his clean energy policies.

“The state of Texas has more solar and wind energy — I think it’s 70% of all their energy is produced by solar and wind, because it’s significantly cheaper,” Biden said, accusing Republicans in the Texas Legislature of trying “to do the bidding of the oil companies” by stalling the shift away from fossil fuels.

No state generates more carbon-free electricity, but Biden vastly overstated the market share. The federal Energy Information Institute says Texas gets 36% of its power from renewables.