US Election 2024 In a frantic last push less than 48 hours before Election Day in the historically close campaign, Kamala Harris targets the Rust Belt, while Donald Trump heads to the biggest swing states in the United States on Sunday.
More states are functionally tied in polls at this point than in any election comparable, with 75 million people having cast early ballots prior to Tuesday’s climax.
According to RealClearPolitics’ polling averages, neither candidate led by more than three points in any of the seven battleground states that will determine the next president as of Saturday evening.
Harris was going to spend the day in Michigan, starting in Detroit and continuing through Pontiac before a rally at Michigan State University in the evening. He was trying desperately to support the Great Lakes states, which are considered to be essential to any Democratic ticket.
The three most important prizes in the “Electoral College” system, which gives states influence based on how big they are, are at the center of Trump’s Sunday schedule: Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia.
The 78-year-old has been trying to distract himself from the scandal that has engulfed his rally at New York’s storied Madison Square Garden for the past week. At the event, warm-up speakers used sexist and racist language to alienate women and Hispanics.
When compared to Harris’s speech to a huge, jubilant crowd on Washington’s Ellipse, with the White House as a backdrop, the unforced error made Trump surrogates wince.
Despite the fact that none of Trump’s Sunday events are held in areas with a significant Hispanic population, Pennsylvania is the swing state with the most Puerto Ricans, a community that is particularly outraged by the bigotry at Trump’s rally.
“The choice for Pennsylvanians could not be more clear: The Trump campaign stated, “President Donald J. Trump represents America First policies, whereas Kamala Harris represents incompetence and dangerously liberal policies that are destroying Pennsylvania families.”
Michigan is one of the seven battlegrounds that get a lot of attention.
On his way to defeating Hillary Clinton in 2016, Trump won the former Democratic stronghold of the “Great Lake State” by flipping the state. In 2020, President Joe Biden brought it back to the Democratic side, helped along by a large Black community and workers who were unionized.
But this time, Harris runs the risk of losing the support of the 200,000 Arab Americans who have criticized Biden’s handling of the Gaza conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Harris’s aides acknowledge that they still have work to do to turn out enough African American men to match Biden’s winning coalition in 2020. Pollsters have noted a decline in Black support for the Democratic ticket.
Harris wrapped up a day on the campaign trail on Saturday with a surprise appearance on “Saturday Night Live,” where she mocked her rival for the presidency, Donald Trump, in an effort to reach out to more people than her usual support base.
“Keep Kamala and keep going!” The vice president said this during a well-attended appearance with comedian Maya Rudolph, who plays her on the show as “America’s fun aunt.”
The Harris campaign has reserved a two-minute spot to air on Sunday during football games, including a tie between two NFL teams from crucial swing states, the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions. The goal is to get as much exposure as possible on television.
Harris says in the advertisement that he will be “a president for all Americans” and that he will “build a brighter future for our nation.” According to the findings of the campaign, “the last week has proven decisive in cementing the choice in this election with both undecided and lower-propensity voters,” as stated by the organization.
“The choice for this segment of the electorate has broken through and been crystallized by the closing argument split screen of Madison Square Garden and its fallout against the Ellipse.” The final Des Moines Register poll before Election Day, regarded as a highly credible test of public sentiment, showed a stunning turnaround on Saturday, putting Harris, 60, ahead in a state that Trump won easily in 2016 and 2020.
