U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris steps off of Air Power Two upon arrival at Los Angeles Worldwide Airport in Los Angeles, California, Saturday. AFP-Yonhap
Vice President Kamala Harris is ready to rally in Las Vegas on Sunday evening as each she and Republican Donald Trump proceed to make frequent journeys to Nevada, seeking to achieve momentum within the swing state as Election Day nears.
The rally is a part of Harris’ newest West Coast swing, which included making her first journey to the U.S.-Mexico border since taking up for President Joe Biden atop the Democratic presidential ticket. On Friday, the vice chairman walked alongside a towering, rust-colored border wall fitted with barbed wire in Douglas, Arizona, and met with federal authorities.
She attended a San Francisco fundraiser Saturday and had plans for a Sunday occasion in Los Angeles earlier than heading to Nevada, with a return to Washington set for Monday evening.
“This race is as shut because it may probably be,” she mentioned Saturday to a raucous crowd of donors. “This can be a margin-of-error race.”
Harris mentioned even when there’s enthusiasm, she’s operating like an underdog. And he or she invited folks to “be a part of our crew in battleground states” to assist get voters to the polls — even when it is Californians making calls from residence.
All voters in Nevada routinely obtain ballots by mail until they decide out — a pandemic-era change that was set in state legislation. Meaning most ballots may begin going out in a matter of weeks, nicely earlier than Election Day on Nov. 5.
Harris plans to be again in Las Vegas on Oct. 10 for a city corridor with Hispanic voters. Each she and Republican rival Donald Trump have campaigned continuously within the metropolis, highlighting the vital position that Nevada, and its mere six votes within the Electoral School, may play in deciding an election anticipated to be exceedingly shut.
Trump held his personal Las Vegas rally on Sept. 13 on the Expo World Market Middle, the place Harris is talking Sunday. Her marketing campaign has continuously scheduled occasions in the identical venue the place her opponent beforehand spoke, together with in Milwaukee, Atlanta and suburban Phoenix. Throughout his Las Vegas occasion, the previous president singled out folks crossing into the U.S. illegally, saying Harris “can be the president of invasion.”
Throughout a marketing campaign cease within the metropolis in June, Trump promised to eradicate taxes on suggestions obtained by waiters, lodge staff and hundreds of different service trade workers. Harris used her personal Las Vegas rally in August to make the identical promise .
Totally getting rid of federal taxes on suggestions would most likely require an act of Congress. Nonetheless, Nevada’s Culinary Union, which represents 60,000 hospitality staff in Las Vegas and Reno, has endorsed Harris .
Ted Pappageorge, the culinary union’s secretary-treasurer, mentioned the distinction between the dueling no-taxes-on-tips proposals is that Harris has additionally pledged to deal with what his union calls “sub-minimum wage,” the place employers pay service trade staff small salaries and meet minimal wage thresholds by anticipating workers to complement these with suggestions.
“That reveals us she’s severe,” Pappageorge mentioned.
Harris has no public schedule on Tuesday, when her operating mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, squares off in opposition to Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance for the primary and solely vice presidential debate of the marketing campaign. However Harris and Walz will marketing campaign collectively on Wednesday, making a bus tour with varied stops by means of central Pennsylvania.
The marketing campaign says that in that swing, each will emphasize plans to energise U.S. manufacturing, together with through the use of tax credit to encourage metal manufacturing and overhaul federal allowing methods to extend American development. (AP)
