While Kamala Harris spent Monday entirely on Pennsylvania – with election meetings held in, among other places, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia Donald Trump caucuses in both Pennsylvania and two other swing states: North Carolina and Michigan.
For Trump, the day started in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he used the election rally to talk about his strict immigration policy and once again lashed out at his political opponents.
However, there were many empty seats in the conference hall JS Dorton Arena, which has a capacity of 5,000 spectators.
One of those present, Ebony Coots, voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, but now it’s Trump that matters. However, she is not sure that he will win.
– You know, maybe I’m actually trying to go to another planet, says the 48-year-old about the prospect of Harris winning.
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– The United States in decline
Trump has recently done everything he can to portray the United States as a society in decline, and which he will do everything to save.
Harris, for his part, has focused his message on specific voter groups with the slogan “When we fight, we win”. The hope is to appeal to young voters, as well as those with Latin American and Arab backgrounds.
In recent days, she has mostly stopped mentioning Trump’s name. Instead, she refers to him as “the other guy”. She still bets on lots of laughter and joy, and has promised to be a problem solver who seeks consensus.
– In the next 24 hours, let’s enjoy this moment and knock on our neighbor’s door. Let’s get this done, she told the crowd in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Monday’s first stop.
Puerto Rico in focus
In Pennsylvania, she was also going to visit Allentown, where tens of thousands of people from Puerto Rico live. Here she is joined by the rapper Fat Joe.
Later, she will visit a Puerto Rican restaurant in Reading with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the most left-wing Democrats in Congress.
Both Fat Joe and Ocasio-Cortez have roots in Puerto Rico, and this part of the campaign appears to be a clear response to the statement that Puerto Rico is “a floating garbage island”, which a comedian recently made at one of Trump’s campaign rallies.
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Door to door
Ron Kessler, a 54-year-old Air Force veteran, is among those who are convinced that Harris is the right person to lead the United States, even though he used to be a Republican. For many years he refrained from voting because he was sure that the right candidate was going to win anyway.
– Now I am older and much wiser. I think it’s important, it’s my civic duty. And it is important that I vote for myself, and that I vote for democracy and for the country, he says.
Harris also took time to go door-to-door in the town of Reading, where she met a family of three who said they had made up their minds but would not say who they would vote for on Tuesday morning.
A little further down the street, the Democratic candidate was greeted with a hug from a woman who could assure that “you already have my vote”.
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Lady Gaga on stage
Harris ends the day with a large election meeting in Philadelphia, where Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey are expected to participate.
Winning Pennsylvania and the votes of the state’s 19 electoral votes is considered very important for both candidates. The state played a decisive role in both the 2016 and 2020 elections and may also do so this year.
About 78 million Americans have already voted, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida. That is almost half of all the votes that were cast in the election four years ago.
The overview also shows that far more registered Republicans have voted in advance this year than in 2020.
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