US : Democratic rival Kamala Harris made her final presidential campaign pitch at a historically Black church and to Arab Americans in battleground Michigan, while Republican rival Donald Trump adopted violent language at a Pennsylvania rally.
According to opinion polls, the two candidates are locked in a close race. Former President Trump, 78, is gaining ground with Hispanic voters, particularly men, while Vice President Harris, 60, has strong support from female voters.
According to Reuters/Ipsos polling, voters overall view both candidates negatively, but that hasn’t stopped them from voting.
According to the University of Florida’s Election Lab, more than 78 million Americans have already done so in advance of Tuesday’s election. This is close to half of the 160 million votes cast in 2020, when US voter turnout was at its highest level in more than a century.
On Tuesday, Democrats are seen as having an even chance of reversing Republicans’ narrow majority in the House of Representatives, while Republicans are expected to win control of the Senate. Major legislation has been difficult to pass for presidents whose parties do not hold control of both chambers.
At the Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church of God in Christ in Detroit, Harris told the parishioners, “In just two days we have the power to decide the fate of our nation for generations to come.” We have to act. Praying alone is not sufficient; not enough to simply talk about
Later, she gave a speech at a rally in East Lansing, Michigan, to the 200,000 Arab Americans living in the state. She started her speech by mentioning the civilians who had been killed by Israel’s offensives in Gaza and Lebanon.
This year has been difficult because of the scale of the deaths and destruction in Gaza and the displacement of civilians in Lebanon. And I will do everything in my power as president to put an end to the war in Gaza,” Harris declared to applause.
In light of the tens of thousands of civilian deaths in Gaza and Lebanon and the displacement of millions, anti-war activists and many Arab and Muslim Americans have criticized the United States’ support for Israel. Hamas and Hezbollah, two armed groups, are Israel’s alleged targets.
On Friday, Trump paid a visit to Dearborn, Michigan, the center of the Arab American community, and he pledged to end the Middle East conflict without specifying how.
During her last Sunday on the campaign trail, Harris chose to focus on her opponent’s record rather than mentioning Trump by name.
Trump goes off script At his first of three rallies on Sunday, Trump frequently left his teleprompter and spoke off the cuff, denouncing opinion polls that showed Harris was moving.
On November 3, 2024, Republican candidate and former US President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania, USA. — According to Reuters, he referred to Democrats as a “demonic party,” made fun of Democratic President Joe Biden, and discussed the high cost of apples.
Trump, who was shot in the ear in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July, survived the assassination attempt. On Sunday, as he was speaking to supporters, he lamented to them about holes in the bulletproof glass surrounding him and suggested that an assassin would have to shoot through the media to get him.
Trump, who has long criticized the media and sought to agitate public sentiment against them, stated, “To get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news, and I don’t mind that so much.”
An Arizona prosecutor began an investigation after he suggested last week that prominent Republican critic and former congresswoman Liz Cheney should be shot at for her hawkish foreign policy.
“It was about threats against him that were spurred on by dangerous rhetoric from Democrats,” according to campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung, Trump’s comment was not directed at the media.
After that, Trump spoke in Kinston, North Carolina, and Macon, Georgia, where he capitalized on the jobs report from last week, which indicated that the US economy only created 12,000 jobs in the month of May.
He told a large crowd in an amphitheatre that the report showed that the United States was a “nation in decline” and warned darkly, without providing any evidence, of a possible recurrence of the Great Depression in 1929 with “people jumping off buildings.”
Senior campaign staff have stated that her closing argument aims to appeal to a select group of undecided voters. That contrasted with Trump, who delivered his usual motivational speech with little deviation.
Trump stated, “Kamala’s campaign is run on hate and demonization.”
Trump mused that he would have preferred not to hand over power near the end of his Pennsylvania speech, which inspired his supporters’ January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol and their false claims that his loss in 2020 was the result of fraud.
The day I left, our border was the safest in our nation’s history. I erred when I left. To be honest, we did so well because of what we did, Trump stated.
Despite warnings from officials in a number of states that it could take days to determine the final outcome, Trump stated during his remarks that the results of the election ought to be announced on Election Night.
