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In the war against Trump, Harris navigates the biggest of the battlegrounds on election eve
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In the war against Trump, Harris navigates the biggest of the battlegrounds on election eve

ALLENTOWN, PA. – Vice President Kamala Harris urges her supporters to “come out to vote…let’s win.”

“Let’s get to work. Twenty-four hours left,” the Democratic presidential candidate told a crowd at an introductory rally at a ski area in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Monday afternoon.

On the final full day of campaigning before his Election Day clash with former President Trump, the Democratic nominee was criss-crossing the largest of the battleground states.

After her event near Scranton, Harris headed south to the predominantly Latino Allentown to hold her first rally of the day.

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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event at Montage Mountain Resort on Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event at Montage Mountain Resort on Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The vice president is later scheduled to stop at a Puerto Rican restaurant in Reading, where he will be joined by rising Democratic Party star Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. – Profile member of the progressive and diverse House members known as the Squad.

The issue of courting Pennsylvania’s key Puerto Rican voters comes at a time when polls show Trump making gains with Latinos and in the wake of controversy sparked by a comedian’s racist joke calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” in a future speech. The former president’s speech at a massive rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City last month.

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Harris will close out election eve in Pennsylvania with two star-studded rallies — one an evening in Pittsburgh, the other a midnight rally in Philadelphia near the famous “Rocky Steps” outside the city’s Museum of Art.

But on this final day of the campaign, Harris doesn’t have the state alone.

Trump in Pennsylvania

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

Trump, who also stopped in the battlegrounds of North Carolina and Michigan on Monday, held two rallies in Pennsylvania; in Reading in the afternoon and then in Pittsburgh in the evening.

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

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

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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.”

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

Harris in Pennsylvania

Vice President Kamala Harris arrives at a campaign event at the PA Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg on October 30. (AP/Matt Slocum)

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.

More money was spent managing the points as campaigns and allied super PACs poured resources into all seven battlegrounds 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 conducted in Pennsylvania from last Tuesday through Saturday and released Sunday showed Harris and Trump deadlocked among likely voters in the state at 48%. This was the latest poll to point to a tie or margin of error race in the Keystone State.

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.”

Harris’ campaign also confirmed to Fox News on Monday that the vice president made a deliberate choice to not mention Trump’s name while walking in the swing state of Michigan on Sunday. Senior campaign officials say the plan is “completely positive.”

On Monday, Harris called Trump “the other guy” several times in her comments at the Scranton event.

But Pennsylvania is 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 Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on October 5, 2024. The rally is located where Trump was shot on July 13. (Fox News Digital’s Matthew McDermott)

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.

Senior Trump campaign officials told Fox News they were cautiously optimistic, noting early voting highlights in some key battleground states.

And they argued that Democrats’ early voting advantage in Pennsylvania is well behind what it was in 2020 and won’t be enough to withstand Election Day voting.

The GOP’s boost to early voting success is the result of a two-year concerted effort by the Republican National Committee and state parties to encourage Republicans to get comfortable with early voting, absentee voting and voting by mail. But just as importantly, after years of heavily criticizing early voting and blaming it for his unproven claims that his 2020 election loss to Biden was fraudulent, Trump has now embraced early voting.

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

In response, Harris told reporters Sunday: “I would ask people, especially those who haven’t voted yet, not to fall for his tactic, which I think includes suggesting to people that if they vote, their vote won’t matter. They don’t vote because somehow 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 3 million doors. battlefields.

Fox News Jacqui Heinrich and Aishah Hasnie contributed to this report

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