With the conventions over, Harris and Trump begin the final sprint to Election Day | CNN Politics

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are looking to build on the momentum of this week ’s Democratic National Convention .

With the conventions over, the next race-defining moment on the calendar is a September 10 debate hosted by ABC .

The campaigns have also discussed participating in a second debate, but the details of where, when and who would host have not yet been settled.

Vice President Harris views the march to November as a series of building blocks, advisers say.

She is under no illusion that the remainder of the campaign will be as smooth or soaring as her ascent to the top of the ticket.

The roadmap for the general election is coming into sharper view with battlegrounds that Democrats all but written off during the Biden campaign now suddenly competitive.

Democratic advance teams are put on alert to be ready for an intensive stretch of campaigning in the coming weeks .

The coming weeks will come with increasing pressure to lay out in more detail her plans to address the biggest problems facing the country.

Her team, for now, does not appear in any rush to churn out policy white papers or schedule a slate of policy appearances.