Harris campaigns in Michigan, Trump meetings in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia

2024-11-03 21:45:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Harris campaigns in Michigan, Trump meetings in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and

In the last days of the election campaign, the Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris will campaign in Michigan today, while her Republican rival Donald Trump will stop in three other states decisive for the result.

Polls show the race is extremely close, and the candidates' campaign teams say they are unsure who will dominate in the seven states that are likely to determine Tuesday's outcome.

One poll showing Democrat Harris leading in Iowa, a state Trump won easily in the past two elections, raised the possibility of a surprise result, although another poll showed her trailing in that state.

Ms. Harris will campaign in East Lansing, Michigan. Democrats see victory in this state as a must. She faces skepticism from part of the state's nearly 200,000 Arab-American community, who are angry that the current vice president has not done more to end the war in Gaza and reduce aid to Israel. . Mr. Trump visited Dearborn, the center of the Arab-American community, on Friday and vowed to end wars in the Middle East.

Mr. Trump will hold campaign rallies in three smaller cities that could help him galvanize rural voters who represent a significant part of his base. He will start the day in Lititz, Pennsylvania, before heading to Kinston, North Carolina in the afternoon and holding a rally in Macon, Georgia in the evening.

It will be the first day since last Tuesday that the two candidates are not campaigning in the same state. On Saturday, their planes were side-by-side on the tarmac at Charlotte, North Carolina, where both candidates held campaign rallies.

Ms. Harris later traveled to New York where she made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live.

In the final days of the campaign, Ms. Harris has tried to convince voters that she will lower the cost of living, a key concern as Americans have grappled with inflation for years. She has also portrayed Mr. Trump as dangerous and unstable and called on Americans to break away from what she says is Mr. Trump's divisive approach.

"We have an opportunity in this election to put behind us a decade in which Donald Trump has tried to create division and fear among each other. That time is gone," she said at the rally in North Carolina on Saturday.

Republican Trump has argued that Ms. Harris, as Vice President, should be held responsible for rising prices and high levels of immigration in recent years, which he considers a threat to the country.

"The only free help they (immigrants) are going to get is a free ride back to their country," he told a rally in North Carolina on Saturday.

At least 75 million Americans have voted through early voting, according to data from the University of Florida Elections Lab, equal to nearly half of the nearly 160 million ballots that were cast in the 2020 election.

However, the winner may not be known for several days, as states like Pennsylvania will need time to count mail-in ballots./ Voa