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Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris on Monday met with members of Jacob Blake’s family in Wisconsin.

Harris (D-Calif.) met with Jacob Blake Sr. and two of Blake’s sisters — four days after her running mate, presidential candidate Joe Biden, also met with the family as he visited riot-ravaged Kenosha, where Blake was shot by a police officer Aug. 23.

The California senator visited the swing state in a rare campaign stop, as her Republican opponent, Vice President Mike Pence, made a Labor Day trip to the state’s Mississippi River city of La Crosse.

Harris told reporters traveling with her that the meeting was “really wonderful.”

“I mean they’re an incredible family and what they’ve endured and they do it with such dignity and grace,’ she said. “And you know, they’re carrying the weight of a lot of voices on their shoulders.”

Harris said that her message to the family was “one, to express concern for their well-being and, of course, for their brother and their son’s well being and to let them know that they have support.”

Blake’s mother, Julia Jackson, phoned into the meeting, as did members of Blake’s legal team, according to a readout from the Biden campaign.

Blake, who is recovering in a hospital, apparently did not participate, though he spoke last week with Biden when the former vice president met with the family.

Harris visited Wisconsin on the federal holiday honoring the US labor union movement to tour an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers facility in Milwaukee and to host a roundtable with black Milwaukee business owners.

President Trump toured Kenosha last week but did not meet with members of Blake’s family.

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