ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Vice President Kamala Harris is urging her supporters to “go out and vote…and win.”
“Let’s get to work. There’s only 24 hours left,” the Democratic presidential candidate told the audience at a campaign kickoff Monday afternoon at a ski resort in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
In the final days of campaigning before Election Day against former President Trump, Democratic candidates crisscrossed the biggest battleground states.
After the event near Scranton, Harris headed south to the predominantly Latino city of Allentown for the first rally of the day.
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign event at Montage Mountain Resort on Monday, November 4, 2024 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Martin)
Afterwards, the vice president was scheduled to stop by a Puerto Rican restaurant in Reading, where he would be joined by Democratic Party hotshots Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. -Members of the progressive and diverse House of Representatives known as the Profile Squad.
The spotlight is on Trump’s courtship of Pennsylvania’s key Puerto Rican voters, as polls suggest he has support from Latinos and the president’s speech This comes in the wake of controversy caused by a racist joke by a comedian who called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.” The former president spoke at a large rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City last month.
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Harris is scheduled to conclude her election eve festivities in Pennsylvania with two star-studded rallies. The first is an evening rally in Pittsburgh, and the other is a late-night rally outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art near the famous Rocky Steps.
But Harris isn’t keeping this last full day of campaigning all to herself.
Former President Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, November 3. (AP/Matt Rourke)
President Trump also made stops in battleground states of North Carolina and Michigan on Monday, holding two rallies in Pennsylvania, including an afternoon rally in Reading and then an evening rally in Pittsburgh.
“A very special greeting to Pennsylvania…what a wonderful place, and I’m thrilled to be returning to this beautiful Commonwealth of thousands of proud and hard-working American patriots.” The former president spoke to an audience at an election rally in the city on Sunday. Lititz, Pennsylvania.
And a message to President Trump’s supporters: “Pennsylvania, go vote.”
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The award, contested by 19 electors, is the largest of seven key battleground states that narrowly decided President Biden’s victory over Trump, and determines whether Trump or Harris will succeed Biden in the White House. It is highly likely that the decision will be made as to whether the
“Pennsylvania is the only state where it’s hard to imagine someone losing the presidential election and still winning,” Mark Harris, a longtime Republican national strategist and ad creator based in Pittsburgh, told FOX. told the news. “It’s clearly ground zero.”
Harris, a veteran of multiple Republican presidential campaigns, called Pennsylvania a “huge tipping point state.”
“I think this is a good microcosm of America,” Harris said, pointing to the state’s major cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, its electorally important suburban areas and its vast rural counties.
Vice President Kamala Harris arrives at a campaign event at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg on October 30th. (AP/Matt Slocum)
Harris, Trump, their running mates, Republican Sen. J.D. Vance, Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and potential surrogates have been to the state repeatedly this summer and fall. I am doing it.
And while the campaign and its allied super PACs are pouring resources into all seven battlegrounds, more money is being spent to run the spots. in Pennsylvania That’s higher than other battleground states, according to statistics from AdImpact, the nation’s top ad tracking company.
Pennsylvania, along with Michigan and Wisconsin, are three Rust Belt states that make up the Democratic Party’s so-called “blue wall.”
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The party held steady control of all three states for a quarter of a century, until Mr. Trump narrowly carried them and won the White House in the 2016 election.
Four years later, in 2020, Biden narrowly carried three states back into the Democratic column and defeated Trump.
A New York Times/Siena College poll conducted in Pennsylvania last Tuesday through Saturday and released Sunday found that Harris and Trump were deadlocked at 48% of Pennsylvania voters. . It was the latest poll to show the race in the Keystone State as tied or within the margin of error.
Harris campaign officials responded to reporters’ questions Sunday night, saying that “Pennsylvania, unlike other states, has more limited guidelines and more limited early voting availability” for voters in the Keystone State. Roughly three-quarters said they would vote Tuesday.
But he added that when it comes to early voting in the state, “we really like what we’re seeing.”
And they predict “a very strong election day in Pennsylvania.”
The Harris campaign also acknowledged to Fox News on Monday that the vice president made a deliberate choice not to mention President Trump by name while stumbling through the battleground state of Michigan on Sunday. Campaign officials say the project is “completely ending on a positive note.”
On Monday, Harris referred to Trump as “that guy” several times during comments at an event in Scranton.
But Pennsylvania is the state where President Trump survived an assassination attempt in July, two days before the Republican National Convention began. And the former president returned to the scene in Butler, in the western part of the state, last month for a large rally.
A large crowd waits for former President Trump to arrive at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on October 5, 2024. The rally is the same location where Trump was shot on July 13th. (Matthew McDermott, Fox News Digital)
While Ms. Harris will conclude her campaign with a late-night rally in Philadelphia, Mr. Trump will hold his final rally in the battleground state of Grand Rapids, Michigan. For Trump, it’s a tradition. He wrapped up his 2016 and 2020 campaigns in the southwest Michigan city.
Trump campaign officials told Fox News they were cautiously optimistic, pointing to early voting leads in some key battleground states.
He argued that Democrats’ early voting advantage in Pennsylvania is far behind compared to 2020 and is not strong enough to survive Election Day voting.
Fueling the Republican early voting success is a two-year joint effort by the Republican National Committee and state parties to encourage Republicans to become familiar with early voting, absentee voting and mail-in voting. . But just as importantly, he has for years been a fierce critic of early voting and denounced unproven claims that his loss to Biden in the 2020 election was fraudulent. After that, Trump is now accepting early voting.
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Meanwhile, as he has in recent days, on Sunday Trump again claimed without evidence that Democrats were trying to cheat.
“They’re fighting hard to steal this damn thing,” the former president charged at a rally in Pennsylvania.
And later, at a rally in North Carolina, he said, “We have a big lead. We have a big lead. Fake news, they won’t tell you this. We have a big, beautiful lead.” He repeated his assertion.
Former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are locked in a tight race with only hours left until Election Day. (AP)
In response, Harris told reporters on Sunday: “I would ask people, especially those who have not yet voted, not to be fooled by his tactics. Even if you vote, your vote will not matter. I think that includes suggesting to people that somehow the integrity of our voting system is intact, so they can’t vote.”
“The purpose is to distract from the fact that free and fair elections are held and supported in our country,” Harris said. “He did it in 2020, too. He lost.”
On Sunday night, the Harris campaign also touted its extraordinarily formidable get-out-the-vote operation, with more than 90,000 volunteers helping voters cast their ballots over the weekend and their key knocks on more than 3 million doors. He emphasized that. battlefield.
Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich and Aishah Hasnie contributed to this report
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