Harris, Trump to Make Furious Last-Day Push Before Election Day

WASHINGTON: With election down to its final hours, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are racing through key battleground states, hoping to rally last-minute votes in a campaign marked by intense drama—from felony trials and an incumbent president’s replacement to multiple assassination attempts.

On Monday, Democratic nominee Kamala Harris will entirely her efforts entirely on Pennsylvania, whose 19 electoral votes could be decisive. She also to visit working-class areas like Allentown, wrapping up with a late-night rally in Philelphia alongside big names like Ly Gaga and Oprah Winfrey. Harris aims to shore up support in a state crucial for any path to White House.

Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump, Republican nominee, has a busy day with rallies in three states. Starting in Raleigh, North Carolina, he’ll make two stops in Pennsylvania, appearing in both Reing and Pittsburgh, before ending his campaign with a tritional late-night rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, just as he did in his previous races.

With over 77 million Americans alrey casting ir ballots early, Harris and Trump are now focused on energizing those who will vote on Election Day itself. outcome promises to be historic, with both sides making a final push for every last vote.

A Trump victory would make him first incoming president to have been indicted and convicted of a felony, after his hush-money trial in New York. He will gain power to end or federal investigations pending against him. Trump would also become second president in history to win non-consecutive White House terms, after Grover Cleveland in late 19th century.

Harris is vying to become first woman, first Black woman and first person of South Asian descent to reach Oval Office, four years after she broke same barriers in national office by becoming President Joe Biden ’s second in command.

vice president ascended to top of Democratic ticket after Biden's disastrous performance in a June debate set into motion his withdrawing from race. That was just one of a series of convulsions that have hit this year's campaign.

Trump survived by millimeters a would-be assassin's bullet at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. His Secret Service detail foiled a second attempt in September when a gunman h set up a rifle as Trump golfed at one of his courses in Florida.

Harris, 60, has played down historic nature of her candidacy, which materialized only after 81-year-old president ended his reelection bid after his June debate against 78-year-old Trump accentuated questions about Biden's age.

Inste, Harris has pitched herself as a generational change, emphasized her support for abortion rights after Supreme Court's 2022 decision ending constitutional right to abortion services, and regularly noted former president's role in Jan. 6 attack on U.S. Capitol. Assembling a coalition ranging from progressives like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York to Republican former Vice President Dick Cheney, Harris has called Trump a threat to democracy and late in campaign even embraced critique that Trump is accurately described as a “fascist.”

Heing into Monday, Harris has mostly stopped mentioning Trump. She is promising to solve problems and seek consensus, while sounding an almost exclusively optimistic tone reminiscent of her campaign's opening days when she embraced “ politics of joy” and campaign me “Freedom.”

“From very start, our campaign has not been about being against something, it is about being for something,” Harris said Sunday evening at Michigan State University.

Trump, renewing his “Make America Great Again” and “America First” slogans, has me his hard-line approach to immigration and wiring criticisms of Harris and Biden anchors of his argument for a second ministration. He's hammered Democrats for an inflationary economy, and he's pledged to le an economic “golden age,” end international conflicts and seal U.S. sourn border.

But Trump also has veered often into grievances over being prosecuted after trying to overturn Biden's victory and repeatedly denigrated country he wants to le again as a “failed nation.” As recently as Sunday, he renewed his false claims that U.S. elections are rigged against him, mused about violence against journalists and said he “shouldn't have left” White House in 2021 — dark turns that have overshowed anor anchor of his closing argument: “Kamala broke it. I will fix it.”

election is likely to be decided across seven states. Trump won Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin in 2016 only to see m flip to Biden in 2020. North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Neva d Sun Belt swath of presidential battleground map.

Trump won North Carolina twice and lost Neva twice. He won Arizona and Georgia in 2016 but saw m slip to Democrats in 2020.

Harris’ team has projected confidence in recent days, pointing to a large gender gap in early voting data and research showing late-deciding voters have broken her way. y also believe in strength of ir campaign infrastructure. This weekend, Harris campaign h more than 90,000 volunteers helping turn out voters — and knocked on more than 3 million doors across battleground states. Still, Harris aides have insisted she remains underdog.

Trump's team has projected confidence, as well, arguing that former president's populist appeal will attract younger and working-class voters across racial and ethnic lines. idea is that Trump can amass an atypical Republican coalition, even as or tritional GOP blocks — notably college-educated voters — become more Democratic.

What Latest Poll Shows

As date for showdown in US Presidential Election nears, a new poll has found two candidates --  Donald Trump  and Kamala Harris -- in a close race in key battleground states of Arizona and Neva.

According to CNN poll, conducted by SSRS, in Arizona, Harris has 48 per cent support among likely voters, while Trump has 47 per cent. In Neva, Trump les slightly with 48 per cent, compared to 47 per cent for Harris, CNN reported.

(With Inputs From Associated Press)