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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will spend the final day of the campaign voting in Pennsylvania, the most swing state in the presidential election, where polls show a close race between the candidates.
The state has 19 electoral votes and has long been seen as key to both candidates’ path to the White House, with Trump winning the state in a successful 2016 campaign, but four years ago He lost by a margin of 80,000 votes out of approximately 7 million votes cast.
The focus on the biggest battleground states in the final stages of the campaign is an election where polls suggest it will be a close one, and how both the Democratic vice president and former Republican president are trying to capture every vote. It’s an expression.
of Financial Times poll tracker The chart shows that the candidates are statistically tied in all seven battleground states, from the East Coast to the industrial Midwest to the Sunbelt West.
In the final stages of the campaign, Democrats believed there had been a decisive shift in opinion polls toward Harris, and the attention showed her leading in a situation where many analysts believed Trump was solid. has been elated by its surprising lead in the Iowa poll. . Aides to the former president dismissed the poll as an anomaly.
More than 78 million Americans have already voted early in person or by mail, according to the University of Florida’s leading tracker of early election voting. At least the same number are expected to vote on Election Day on Tuesday.
In a final push, Ms. Harris will make five stops in Pennsylvania on Monday, including two large rallies in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s largest city, and Philadelphia, while Mr. Trump will hold rallies in Pittsburgh and Reading, a medium-sized southern city. will be held. The group visited eastern Pennsylvania, which has a large Latino population, and ended the day with a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Michigan is also one of the swing states in jeopardy. Trump held his last campaign rallies in Grand Rapids in 2016, when he defeated Hillary Clinton, and in 2020, when he lost re-election to Joe Biden.
Harris campaigned in Michigan on Sunday and ended the day with a rally at Michigan State University in East Lansing, where she claimed she had the wind in her head.
“We have momentum and it’s on our side. Can you feel it?” she asked the crowd of thousands. “We have momentum because our campaign taps into the ambitions, aspirations and dreams of Americans, and because we are optimistic and excited about what we can do together.” .”
The Iowa poll and several other pre-election polls convinced some investors to reduce their bets on a Trump victory after Monday’s weaker dollar and rise in U.S. Treasuries.
The dollar fell 0.5% against a basket of major currencies, on track for its biggest single-day decline since August. The euro rose 0.5% to $1.09 against the US dollar. Yields on U.S. government bonds, which are inversely proportional to prices, fell and the Mexican peso rose.
Harris spent much of the past week warning of President Trump’s threat to democratic institutions, but she returned to an optimistic tone in the final stages of the campaign. It is notable that she did not mention her Republican opponent by name in her remarks Sunday night.
Meanwhile, Trump doubled down on his divisive rhetoric in the home straight, calling Democrats “satanic” and saying he should never have left the White House when he lost to Biden in 2020, calling out his assailants. Even if that happens, I’m thinking, “I don’t care.” It was necessary to “shoot against fake news.”
Monday’s visit to Redding comes as Trump seeks to shore up support from Latino voters, especially Puerto Rican voters, amid controversy surrounding a speaker who referred to the U.S. territory at a recent Trump rally. This could be the key to his outlook at . “Floating Island of Garbage.”
Harris, whose campaign is trying to capitalize on President Trump’s incendiary rhetoric, also made a campaign stop in Reading on Monday, where she joined Puerto Rican Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Josh Shapiro at a local Puerto Rican restaurant. I’m planning to visit. Popular Democratic governor of Pennsylvania.
