Kamala Harris cruises to victory in Pennsylvania on Wednesday to take voter questions live as Donald Trump campaigns in Georgia, one of seven swing states expected to decide the outcome of a very close race for the White House.
With just 13 days left before the election, both Vice President Harris and former President Trump are on a mission to persuade a segment of American voters who remain undecided in local elections.
Campaigning has intensified in a presidential battle that is approaching its climax on November 5 after twists and a bit of drama including recent allegations by a former Trump aide that the former president sometimes spoke in positive terms about Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. .
Harris, who turned 60 over the weekend, will be near Philadelphia for CNN A town hall meeting with voters, but no meeting planned for Trump despite the network offering to hold a separate meeting for him.
Pennsylvania is a coveted prize for candidates, and Harris and Trump have made frequent appearances there and in other swing states.
Harris’ camp also confirmed that Michelle Obama will join her at an event on Saturday in the battleground state of Michigan, the former first lady’s first stop campaigning with Harris.
Trump will hold his own town hall event on Wednesday, as well as a rally in the southern state of Georgia, which the 78-year-old Republican won in 2016 and then narrowly lost to Joe Biden four years later.
About 23.5 million Americans have already voted by mail or in person, a much higher number than in the same period four years ago.
In Georgia, an astonishing 1.9 million early votes have already been cast, a previous record.
However, Trump said Fox News He said Wednesday that he still feels “very mixed” about early voting, though he confirmed he would vote early in Florida.
“People have different feelings about it,” he said. “But the main thing is you have to get out, you have to vote.”
Can opinion polls be trusted?
Harris’s arrival on the campaign trail shook the country, which had been anticipating a rematch between Biden and Trump, and he is now a felon convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records to hide payments to a porn star.
Since Biden’s abrupt withdrawal after a disastrous debate performance, the race between Trump and Harris has become one of the tightest in American history.
It is difficult to know how accurate the polls are, because they have in the past underestimated support for Trump but also failed to predict the level of support for Democrats.
As the former president stresses his promises to crack down on immigrants and bring good economic times after a period of high inflation, his rivals are raising concerns about his willingness to respect American democracy.
Harris’ campaign also began weighing in on his mental and physical fitness for the Oval Office while trying to appeal to moderate Republican voters.
One of Trump’s top aides as president, former US Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, confirmed Tuesday New York Times Previous reports said he considered the Republican a fascist.
“The former president is definitely in the far-right area, he’s definitely an authoritarian, he admires dictatorial people and he’s said that. So he definitely falls within the general definition of a fascist, for sure.”
Kelly also claimed that Trump “commented more than once that, you know, Hitler did some good things, too.”
A day after the explosive remarks were published, Harris’ campaign arranged a press call with retired military figures who endorsed Kelly’s assessment and warned that a second Trump presidency would have far fewer Democratic barriers than his first.
“General Kelly is warning us that Trump is seeking the power to do anything he wants, whenever he wants,” retired US Army Colonel Kevin Carroll said in the phone call.
He added, “Trump is now running to grant himself unprecedented and unrestricted extremist powers, in the phrase he used last night on television.”