WASHINGTON (AFP) — A nail-biting US presidential marketing campaign heads into its last week Monday, with polls displaying little daylight between the 2 candidates as they ramp up appeals to their respective bases to end up and vote.
Greater than 41 million Individuals have already forged early ballots forward of Election Day on November 5, in what is predicted to be one of many tightest elections of contemporary occasions.
Outgoing President Joe Biden will be part of them in casting his personal vote Monday, the White Home stated.
On the marketing campaign path, each candidates return to key battleground states, with Democrat Kamala Harris heading to Michigan, the place she faces opposition from Arab Individuals outraged over US help for Israel.
Republican Donald Trump, 78, will head to Georgia, the place he’ll tackle a gathering of pastors and religion leaders earlier than holding a rally.
The journeys come after Harris, 60, spent Sunday going neighborhood to neighborhood in Philadelphia, in must-win Pennsylvania, with stops at a Black church and Puerto Rican restaurant.
“The election is right here, and the selection, Philly, is really in your fingers,” the Democrat stated, in her 14th journey to the state since Biden dropped out of the race in July.
Former president Trump packed a crowd into New York’s famed Madison Sq. Backyard enviornment on Sunday, the place — stoking tensions on immigration — audio system made crude remarks about Latinos and advisor Stephen Miller declared “America is for Individuals, and Individuals solely.”
Whereas Trump accused Harris of getting “destroyed the nation,” his speech was in some methods overshadowed by his openers, together with a comic who known as the US territory of Puerto Rico “actually a floating island of rubbish.”
Firing up the bottom
Trump and Harris have each pushed exhausting to deliver out their voter bases, with Trump aiming to fireplace up evangelicals.
As Harris campaigns on abortion rights as central to her message, Trump has taken to extremes to color her as “radical,” falsely claiming she is in favor of “execution after start.”
In Georgia, one of many seven swing states that can resolve the election, Trump — himself not notably spiritual — has enraptured conservative Christian voters, having appointed three Supreme Court docket justices in his earlier time period who went on to overturn the nationwide proper to abortion.
Harris has warned that Trump “desires to take America again to the 1800s” on the problem as she tries to attraction to ladies in addition to extra reasonable Republicans.
However the vp has run into issues with the Democrats’ historically extra multiracial, multifaith base as civilian casualties proceed to mount in Israel’s battle in opposition to Hamas in Gaza.
Whereas Harris has at occasions been extra important of Israel than Biden, her boss, she has additionally dominated out any main modifications in US help for Israel, together with an arms embargo.
That would spell hassle in Michigan, one other key swing state and residential to giant numbers of Muslim and Arab American voters who’ve declared they won’t vote for the Democrat.
