US Election : With a flurry of swing-state rallies that will test their endurance and their ability to persuade the nation’s remaining undecided voters, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump head into the final weekend of the most tense US presidential campaign of modern times.
In her bid to become the first woman president of the country, Harris will use rallies in Georgia, North Carolina, and Michigan to emphasize that Trump is a threat to American democracy.
Trump, who lost in 2020 and became the first presidential candidate to be convicted of a crime, is vying for a sensational return to the White House. To promote his “America first” policy, he promises a radical right-wing takeover of the government and aggressive trade wars.
As Trump makes whistle-stop stops in North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Georgia, the 78-year-old, who rallied in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, late on Friday, will almost certainly cross paths with Harris once more.
Their frantic schedule will continue into Monday, culminating in late-night rallies for Trump and Harris in Grand Rapids, Michigan, respectively.
Although Tuesday is Election Day, more than 70 million ballots have already been cast by Americans in advance, with a record four million cast in Georgia, where Democrats are attempting to do everything in their power to keep the state in their favor.
Opinion polls continue to show that the race is still tied, especially in the seven battleground states that will likely decide the outcome in the US electoral college system. As a result, the Republican businessman and his Democratic rival, who is 60 years old, are having a hard time getting even a small amount of support from one another’s camps.
That is what Harris, who is the vice president of President Joe Biden at the moment, is doing by appealing to voters who are more centrist and bringing her base to the polls with a strong ground game and get out the vote effort. She is also encouraging voters to “finally turn the page” on the former president by portraying him as a toxic authoritarian.
She stated to her supporters in Little Chute, Wisconsin, “he is someone who is increasingly unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed by grievance, and the man is out for unchecked power.”
Trump, on the other hand, has intensified his already extreme rhetoric in the hope of motivating his devoted base to participate in large numbers.
Trump yelled, “Kamala’s closing message to America is that she hates you,” in Warren, Michigan, on Friday night. There, he slammed the economy under Biden and Harris as a disaster, despite the fact that economists have stated that it is unquestionably not the case, and he warned that “a 1929-style economic depression” would occur if Harris were elected.
Trump had previously conjured the image of former Republican representative and Harris supporter Liz Cheney being shot, citing her hawkish foreign policy views.
She is an extreme war hawk. OK, let’s put her there with a rifle that has nine barrels shooting at her. Trump stated, “You know when the guns are trained on her face. Let’s see how she feels about it.”
In spite of the rhetoric, Trump waxed nostalgic on Friday, describing his nine-year campaign as “the thrill of a lifetime.”
“And now we want to turn that excitement into an urge to conduct business, right?”
In contrast, Harris, the nation’s first Asian-American vice president and the nation’s first Black vice president, has attempted to leverage the celebrity power of Beyonce and Bruce Springsteen during the final stages of the campaign.
In the midst of a storm brought on by a Trump rally warm-up speaker calling the US territory a “floating island of garbage,” Jennifer Lopez, a pop icon of Puerto Rican descent, joined Harris on stage on Thursday.
Cardi B, a Grammy-winning rapper, joined the candidate on Friday night and asked the Milwaukee crowd, “Are we ready to make history?”
Businesses in Washington, D.C., have begun boarding up their doors in anticipation of the upcoming election, despite Trump’s refusal to say whether he would accept its results if he loses. Authorities in the city have issued a warning that there will be a “fluid, unpredictable security environment” in the days following the polls close.
Following the violence that broke out at the US Capitol in the wake of the vote for 2020, many fear that there will be more unrest. Trump has already made allegations of fraud and cheating in swing states like Pennsylvania.
