Harris and Trump will both make a furious last-day push before Election Day

WASHINGTON (AP) — A statesmanlike run that has careened done a felony trial, an incumbent president being pushed disconnected nan summons and aggregate assassination attempts comes down to a last push crossed a fistful of states connected nan eve of Election Day.

Kamala Harris will walk each of Monday successful Pennsylvania, whose 19 electoral votes connection nan largest prize among nan states expected to find nan Electoral College outcome. The vice president and Democratic nominee will sojourn working-class areas including Allentown and extremity pinch a late-night Philadelphia rally that includes Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey.

Donald Trump plans 4 rallies successful 3 states, opening successful Raleigh, North Carolina and stopping doubly successful Pennsylvania pinch events successful Reading and Pittsburgh. The Republican nominee and erstwhile president ends his run nan measurement he ended nan first two, pinch a precocious Monday nighttime arena successful Grand Rapids, Michigan.

About 77 cardinal Americans already person voted early, but Harris and Trump are pushing to move retired galore millions much supporters connected Tuesday. Either consequence connected Election Day will output a historical outcome.

A Trump triumph would make him nan first incoming president to person been indicted and convicted of a felony, aft his hush-money proceedings successful New York. He will summation nan powerfulness to extremity different national investigations pending against him. Trump would besides go nan 2nd president successful history to triumph non-consecutive White House terms, aft Grover Cleveland successful nan precocious 19th century.

Harris is vying to go nan first woman, first Black female and first personification of South Asian descent to scope nan Oval Office, 4 years aft she collapsed nan aforesaid barriers successful nationalist agency by becoming President Joe Biden’s 2nd successful command.

The vice president ascended to nan apical of nan Democratic summons aft Biden’s disastrous capacity successful a June statement group into mobility his withdrawing from nan race. That was conscionable 1 of a bid of convulsions that person deed this year’s campaign.

Trump survived by millimeters a would-be assassin’s slug astatine a rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania. His Secret Service item foiled a 2nd effort successful September erstwhile a gunman had group up a firearm arsenic Trump golfed astatine 1 of his courses successful Florida.

Harris, 60, has played down nan historical quality of her candidacy, which materialized only aft nan 81-year-old president ended his reelection bid aft his June statement against nan 78-year-old Trump accentuated questions astir Biden’s age.

Instead, Harris has sounded herself arsenic a generational change, emphasized her support for abortion authorities aft nan Supreme Court’s 2022 determination ending nan law correct to abortion services, and regularly noted nan erstwhile president’s domiciled successful nan Jan. 6 onslaught connected nan U.S. Capitol. Assembling a conjugation ranging from progressives for illustration Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York to Republican erstwhile Vice President Dick Cheney, Harris has called Trump a threat to populist and precocious successful nan run moreover embraced nan critique that Trump is accurately described arsenic a “fascist.”

Heading into Monday, Harris has mostly stopped mentioning Trump. She is promising to lick problems and activity consensus, while sounding an almost exclusively optimistic reside reminiscent of her campaign’s opening days erstwhile she embraced “the authorities of joy” and nan run taxable “Freedom.”

“From nan very start, our run has not been astir being against something, it is astir being for something,” Harris said Sunday evening astatine Michigan State University.

Trump, renewing his “Make America Great Again” and “America First” slogans, has made his hard-line attack to migration and withering criticisms of Harris and Biden nan anchors of his statement for a 2nd administration. He’s hammered Democrats for an inflationary economy, and he’s pledged to lead an economical “golden age,” extremity world conflicts and seal nan U.S. confederate border.

But Trump besides has veered often into grievances complete being prosecuted aft trying to overturn Biden’s triumph and many times denigrated nan state he wants to lead again arsenic a “failed nation.” As precocious arsenic Sunday, he renewed his mendacious claims that U.S. elections are rigged against him, mused astir unit against journalists and said he “shouldn’t person left” nan White House successful 2021 — acheronian turns that person overshadowed different anchor of his closing argument: “Kamala collapsed it. I will hole it.”

The predetermination is apt to beryllium decided crossed 7 states. Trump won Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin successful 2016 only to spot them flip to Biden successful 2020. North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada adhd nan Sun Belt swath of nan statesmanlike battleground map.

Trump won North Carolina doubly and mislaid Nevada twice. He won Arizona and Georgia successful 2016 but saw them gaffe to Democrats successful 2020.

Harris’ squad has projected assurance successful caller days, pointing to a ample gender spread successful early voting information and investigation showing late-deciding voters person surgery her way. They besides judge successful nan spot of their run infrastructure. This weekend, nan Harris run had much than 90,000 volunteers helping move retired voters — and knocked connected much than 3 cardinal doors crossed nan battleground states. Still, Harris aides person insisted she remains nan underdog.

Trump’s squad has projected confidence, arsenic well, arguing that nan erstwhile president’s populist entreaty will pull younger and working-class voters crossed group and taste lines. The thought is that Trump tin amass an atypical Republican coalition, moreover arsenic different accepted GOP blocks — notably college-educated voters — go much Democratic.

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AP White House Correspondent Zeke Miller contributed to this report.