Per week earlier than election day, Vice President Kamala Harris pledged to “flip the web page on concern and divisiveness” at a marketing campaign rally within the battleground state of Michigan.
In the meantime, former US President Donald Trump, at a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, hit out at his critics, together with former First Girl Michelle Obama, whom he referred to as “nasty.”
Incendiary units had been set off Monday at two poll drop containers – one in Portland and one other in close by Vancouver, Washington – destroying a whole lot of ballots in what one official referred to as a “direct assault on democracy”.
What are the newest updates from the polls?
Harris and Trump stay neck and neck, with analysts predicting that the election will come all the way down to razor-thin margins in a couple of key swing states.
In keeping with FiveThirtyEight’s day by day election ballot tracker, Harris holds a slender lead within the nationwide polls, with a 1.4 share level benefit as of Tuesday. This marks a slight dip from the earlier week when she was forward by 1.7 share factors.
Seven key swing states will probably determine the outcomes of this election. Each campaigns have put their focus and efforts there.
These seven states embody Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin and Nevada.
In keeping with FiveThirtyEight’s day by day ballot tracker, Harris retains a slender lead in Michigan. In the meantime, Trump holds a slight edge over Harris in Pennsylvania and Nevada and enjoys a extra substantial lead in North Carolina, Arizona and Georgia.
And in Wisconsin, in line with FiveThirtyEight, not even a tenth of a share level separates the 2.
In all seven states, the candidates are inside two factors of one another, nicely throughout the polls’ margins of error, leaving every state a toss-up simply days earlier than the ultimate vote.
What was Kamala Harris as much as on Sunday?
Harris targeted on Michigan, the place her fundamental occasion was a night marketing campaign rally and live performance in Ann Arbor, alongside her working mate Tim Walz and the singer Maggie Rogers.
In 2022, Michigan noticed the very best youth voter turnout within the nation, with lengthy traces at polling stations on faculty campuses, in the course of the midterm election. This 12 months, Democrats try to rekindle that vitality by organising occasions just like the rally held in Ann Arbor, residence to the College of Michigan.
Nonetheless, about 30 pro-Palestinian protesters confronted Harris on the occasion. The nominee acknowledged the chants, telling the protesters, “Hey, guys, I hear you.” The group was chanting, “Israel bombs, Kamala pays, what number of youngsters have you ever killed in the present day?”
After acknowledging the group, Harris mentioned, “With reference to Gaza, all of us need this warfare to finish as quickly as attainable and to get the hostages out, and I’ll do every part in my energy to make it so.”
Earlier than that, she held afternoon marketing campaign occasions in Saginaw and Macomb County. Harris pitched to working-class voters by emphasising the administration’s efforts to create extra manufacturing facility jobs within the state and her assist for labour unions.
Earlier than flying to Michigan, Harris additionally took a jab at Trump, referencing feedback made at Trump’s New York rally the day earlier than, the place a comedian referred to Puerto Rico as “a floating island of rubbish.”
“[It] actually highlighted the purpose that I’ve been making all through this marketing campaign,” which is that Trump is “fixated on his grievances, on himself and on dividing our nation, and it’s not in any approach one thing that may strengthen the American household, the American employee”, Harris mentioned.
“There’s a giant distinction between he and I,” she added.
In keeping with Al Jazeera’s Rosiland Jordan, who was reporting from Washington, DC, Harris’s marketing campaign is making an attempt to capitalise on a few of the racist language that got here out of Trump’s rally.
“It is a approach for the Harris marketing campaign to attempt to persuade these yet-undecided Latino voters, significantly within the swing state of Pennsylvania, to vote for her,” Jordan mentioned.
Pennsylvania is residence to greater than 450,000 Puerto Ricans, who make up 8 p.c of the state’s inhabitants. Simply 0.2 share factors separate Trump and Harris there, and Pennsylvania affords 19 Electoral Faculty votes – probably the most among the many swing states.
What was Donald Trump as much as on Monday?
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was in Georgia. He delivered remarks on the inaugural Nationwide Religion Summit 2024 in Powder Springs within the afternoon earlier than holding a rally in Atlanta within the night.
Throughout his occasions, Trump dismissed claims that he or his supporters had been akin to Nazis and fascists.
“I’m not a Nazi. I’m the alternative of a Nazi,” Trump advised the gang assembled at Georgia Tech. “Now, the way in which they discuss is so disgusting and simply horrible.”
“My father – I had an incredible father, powerful man. He used to all the time say, by no means use the phrase Nazi. By no means use that phrase.”
He then criticised Harris for “utilizing the f-word.” In response to feedback from Trump’s former chief of employees, John Kelly, who said that the previous president met the definition of a fascist, Harris expressed her settlement with that evaluation. Trump mentioned of Harris: “She’s a fascist, okay? She’s a fascist.”
Throughout his occasion in Atlanta, he additionally referred to as former First Girl Michelle Obama “nasty” after she condemned his rhetoric over the weekend.
Georgia is a crucial key swing state. Trump received it within the 2016 presidential race and misplaced it in 2020.
Nonetheless, in his Georgia occasions, Trump was silent on the racist remarks about Puerto Rico at his New York rally.
“However that’s to be anticipated from the previous president,” Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher mentioned, reporting from outdoors the ex-president’s rally in Atlanta.
“Donald Trump works on the precept that you simply by no means apologise and also you by no means again down,” he added.
What’s subsequent for the Harris and Trump campaigns?
Harris will converse in Washington, DC
Harris is predicted to deal with a crowd of 20,000 individuals in Washington, DC, on Tuesday evening in what her marketing campaign is billing as the previous prosecutor’s “closing argument”.
Harris will converse on the Ellipse, simply outdoors the White Home.
That’s the similar spot the place Trump addressed his supporters in his notorious “Cease the Steal” rally on January 6, 2021, proper earlier than a pro-Trump mob attacked the US Capitol.
In the meantime, Tim Walz – Harris’s working mate – will marketing campaign on Tuesday in Georgia, a key swing state the place Trump has been actively rallying his base.
Trump is rallying in Allentown, Pennsylvania
Trump will maintain a rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is a essential battleground state and each Trump and Harris have made a number of visits there in current weeks.
Given the dimensions of the Puerto Rican vote within the state, and the racist feedback on the Trump rally in opposition to the US territory, Trump’s marketing campaign visits might turn out to be much more vital to his bid to win the state, the place he marginally leads in the mean time, in line with ballot trackers.
Whereas Puerto Ricans dwelling on the island don’t solid ballots within the presidential election, People of Puerto Rican origin or ancestry are a key demographic in some swing states.
“Puerto Rico is trash? We’re People, Donald Trump,” TV host Sunny Hostin mentioned on the favored present The View on Monday. “We vote.” Hostin’s household is from Puerto Rico.
.@Sunny Hostin: “This Puerto Rican has one thing to say in regards to the island that I really like, the place my household is from. Puerto Rico is trash? We’re People, Donald Trump.”
“My fellow Puerto Ricans, trash assortment day is November 5, 2024. Don’t neglect it.” pic.twitter.com/fFC4aMeZUg
— The View (@TheView) October 28, 2024
Whoever wins Pennysylvania may nicely win the White Home, analysts consider.
“I’m actually taking a look at Pennsylvania.” Thomas Present, affiliate professor of political science within the UCL Faculty of Public Coverage, advised Al Jazeera.
“Some current forecasting confirmed that if Donald Trump can win in Pennsylvania, his odds for profitable the White Home go as much as 96 p.c; if Kamala Harris wins Pennsylvania, her odds of profitable the White Home go as much as 91 p.c,” Present added.
