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Vice President will address the Al Smith charity dinner by video Thursday night, after deciding to in person in a , organizers said.
Former President is planning to attend in person.
The white tie event raises millions of dollars for Catholic charities and has traditionally offered presidential candidates from both parties the chance to trade light-hearted barbs in the election's final stretch.
Harris' campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Her team to spend as much time as possible campaigning in that will decide the election, rather than detouring to heavily Democratic New York.
The that Harris would address the dinner by screen.
Both and President , who is Catholic, spoke at a virtual version of the fundraiser in 2020, .
when Trump unleashed on his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, drawing boos from the crowd as he called her 鈥渃orrupt鈥� and accused her of "pretending not to hate Catholics.鈥�
The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner is named for the former New York governor, a Democrat who was the first Catholic to receive a major party nomination for president when he unsuccessfully ran for the White House in 1928.
The event has become a tradition for presidential candidates since Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy appeared together in 1960. In 1996, the Archdiocese of New York decided not to invite then-President Bill Clinton and his Republican challenger, Bob Dole, reportedly because Clinton vetoed a late-term abortion ban.
Jill Colvin, The Associated Press
