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On election eve, Harris and Trump hold dueling rallies in the biggest of battleground states
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On election eve, Harris and Trump hold dueling rallies in the biggest of battleground states

PHILADELPHIA, PA – Vice President Kamala Harris – giving a last-minute speech to his supporters on the biggest of the battlefields.

“We need you to vote, Pennsylvania. We need you to vote,” Harris stressed last week while speaking to a large crowd in Harrisburg, capital of the Keystone State. “No one can sit on the sidelines”

Vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Going back to Pennsylvania On Monday – Election Eve, rallies are being held in Allentown, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

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Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris arrives at a campaign event at the PA Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024 (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris arrives at a campaign event at the PA Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024 (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

His rival for the White House is the Republican candidate former President Trump – He held a rally in Pennsylvania on Sunday.

“A very, very special hello to Pennsylvania… What a wonderful place. And I’m excited to be back in this beautiful Commonwealth with thousands of proud, hard-working American patriots,” the former president told the crowd at his rally in Lititz.

And Trump’s message to his supporters: “Pennsylvania, go vote.”

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Monday is the last full day of the campaign Election Day, Trump is returning to the state to hold rallies in Reading and Pittsburgh.

It’s no surprise that both major party candidates have focused their recent campaign schedules heavily in Pennsylvania.

Trump in Pennsylvania

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024, in Lititz, Pennsylvania. (AP/Matt Rourke)

With 19 electoral votes up for grabs, this is the biggest prize among seven key battlegrounds where razor-thin margins are decisive. President Biden’s His 2020 election victory over Trump is likely to determine whether Trump or Harris will replace Biden in the White House.

“Pennsylvania is the only state where it’s hard to see someone lose the presidential race and then win,” Mark Harris, a longtime Republican national strategist and ad producer based in Pittsburgh, told Fox News. “Frankly, it’s ground zero.”

Harris, who has worked on multiple GOP presidential campaigns, called Pennsylvania a “major tipping point state.”

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Pointing to the electorally important suburban areas of the state’s major cities, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and numerous rural counties, Harris emphasized: “I think it’s a good microcosm of America.”

Harris, Trump and his running mates — GOP vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance and his Democratic counterpart, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz — and top surrogates have stopped in the state repeatedly this summer and fall.

Harris and Walz meet on the campaign trail for the first time since the vice president chose the Minnesota governor as his running mate

Vice President Kamala Harris (R) and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz meet for the first time on the campaign trail, hours after the vice president chose Walz as his running mate on the Democratic ticket, on August 6, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)

While campaigns and allied super PACs poured resources into all seven battlegrounds, more money was spent on managing the points in pennsylvania More than any other swing state, according to figures from leading national ad tracking firm AdImpact.

Pennsylvania, along with Michigan and Wisconsin, are three Rust Belt states that form Democrats’ so-called “Blue Wall.”

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The party reliably won all three states for a quarter-century before Trump narrowly captured the White House in the 2016 election.

Four years later, in 2020, Biden defeated Trump by carrying all three states by razor-thin margins, putting them back on the Democratic side.

A New York Times/Siena College poll in Pennsylvania conducted last Tuesday through Saturday and released Sunday showed Harris and Trump deadlocked at 48% among likely voters in the state. This was the last poll to point to a tied or margin-of-error race.

Taking questions from reporters Sunday evening, senior Harris campaign officials said roughly three-quarters of the Keystone State’s voters will vote Tuesday “because unlike other states, guidelines and availability of early voting are more limited in Pennsylvania.”

But they added that “we really like what we see” when it comes to early voting in the state.

And they predicted, “We think we’re going to have a very strong Election Day in Pennsylvania.”

But Pennsylvania is also the state where Trump survived an assassination attempt in July, two days before the Republican National Convention began. And the former president returned to the field in Butler in the western part of the state for a massive rally last month.

Former President Donald Trump returned to Butler, Pennsylvania. He will organize a new rally on October 5

A large crowd awaits the arrival of former President Donald Trump at a rally on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. The rally is at the same location as the rally where Trump was attempted on July 13. . (Fox News Digital’s Matthew McDermott)

Trump kicks off his campaign schedule in North Carolina on Monday, ahead of two rallies in Pennsylvania; He will be holding his fourth rally here since Saturday, which has caused consternation among political operatives.

“We had a lot of luck in North Carolina. We won twice,” Trump said in Kinston on Sunday. he said. “We’re going to win North Carolina.”

But a day earlier, at another North Carolina rally, he had warned supporters that “you can win by a lot and still lose by a narrow margin.”

Polls point to a margin of error race in North Carolina, just one of seven key battleground states where Trump narrowly edged out Biden four years ago. And a source in the former president’s political orbit told Fox News there is concern about a possible backsliding in the Tar Heel state.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gestures during a campaign rally at the Kinston Regional Jetport in Kinston, North Carolina, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024 (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gestures during a campaign rally at the Kinston Regional Jetport in Kinston, North Carolina, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024 (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Harris will close out her campaign with a midnight rally in Philadelphia, while Trump will be in battleground Grand Rapids, Michigan, for his final rally. For Trump, this is a tradition. He wrapped up the 2016 and 2020 campaigns in the southwestern Michigan city.

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Trump defended once again Sunday, as he has in recent days, without providing evidence that Democrats were trying to cheat.

“They’re fighting hard to steal this damn thing,” the former president said at a rally in Pennsylvania.

And later, at his rally in North Carolina, he reiterated his claim that “we have a big difference. We have a big difference. The fake news doesn’t tell you that. We have a big, beautiful advantage.”

Trump and Harris

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are at an impasse, with just days until Election Day. (AP)

In response, Harris told reporters on Sunday: “I would ask people, especially those who haven’t voted yet, not to fall for her tactic, which I think includes suggesting to people that if they vote, their vote won’t matter. I would suggest to people that somehow they’re not voting because the integrity of our voting system is intact.” .”

“This is intended to distract from the fact that we have and support free and fair elections in our country,” Harris said. “That’s what we did in 2020. He lost.”

Harris’ campaign on Sunday night also touted the highly challenging get-out-the-vote operation, highlighting the fact that there were more than 90,000 volunteers who helped recruit voters over the weekend, knocking on more than three million doors. battlefields.

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