Donald Trump confirmed Monday that he would be the sole featured speaker at this year's Al Smith charity dinner in New York, typically a good-humored and bipartisan political event that Vice President Kamala Harris said she is skipping in favor of battleground state campaigning.

Vice President Kamala Harris will skip the Al Smith dinner next month in New York, her campaign announced. The charity roast, scheduled for Oct. 17, traditionally serves as a highlight of the final stretch of the presidential campaign and is usually a forum for jokes about rival candidates and even self-deprecating laugh lines.

Prosecutor Jack Smith is expected to file a huge opening brief on Thursday in his new election fraud case against former President Donald Trump. The filing will be significant and potentially groundbreaking.

Donald Trump’s lawyers oppose the move, which the special counsel said is prompted by the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling.

Trump’s election case is moving forward again in federal district court after the Supreme Court gave the ex-president some immunity from criminal prosecution, ruling ex-presidents can’t be charged based on their “official acts” in office—with U.