Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump are heading to North Carolina this Saturday (2) to try to drum up support in the southeastern American state, just three days before the US presidential election, next Tuesday (5).
It will be the fourth day in a row that the vice president and former president will visit the same state on the same day, highlighting the critical importance of the seven swing states that are likely to decide the race and which opinion polls show are on a knife’s edge.
More than 70 million Americans have already voted, according to the University of Florida Election Lab, below the record pace of early voting in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic but still indicating a high level of voter enthusiasm.
Saturday also marks the last day of early voting in North Carolina, where more than 3.8 million votes were cast while the western part of the state is still recovering from deadly flooding caused by Hurricane Helene.
Kamala plans appearances with rock star Jon Bon Jovi in Charlotte, the largest city in North Carolina, which is tied with Georgia for the second-largest swing state prize. Each has 16 votes in the Electoral College, where 270 are needed to secure the presidency.
North Carolina supported Trump in 2020 but elected a Democratic governor the same day, giving hope to both parties.
“We have an opportunity in this election to turn the page on a decade of Donald Trump, who spent his entire time trying to get the American people to point fingers at each other,” Harris said at a rally in Janesville, Wisconsin, on Friday. .
Trump will hold a rally in Gastonia, west of Charlotte, at 1 p.m. EDT before returning to the state in the evening, where he is expected to speak at the 22,000-capacity First Horizon Coliseum arena in Greensboro.
“This election is a choice between whether we have four more years of great incompetence and failure, or whether we begin the four greatest years in the history of our country,” Trump told a crowd in Michigan on Friday.
Policy differences
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have very different policies on important issues, including support for Ukraine and NATO, abortion rights, immigration, taxes, democratic principles and tariffs.
Kamala and Trump were in North Carolina on Wednesday, Nevada on Thursday and Wisconsin on Friday — all swing states — holding events about 7 miles apart.
This indicates the enormous effort made to persuade a relatively small number of voters in some states because the other states are seen as reliably Democratic or Republican.
But Trump will also visit Salem, Virginia, this Saturday, despite polls showing a clear lead for Kamala.
Kamala will also be in the swing state of Georgia this Saturday, where film director Spike Lee and singer Victoria Monet are expected to speak at a rally.
Democratic President Joe Biden won Georgia by just 0.3 percentage points in 2020, the first time his party carried the state since Bill Clinton in 1992.
Democrats will rely heavily on Black voter turnout and support for Harris if they want to recreate Biden’s success in a state where Black people make up just over 12% of the population.
Latinos, who make up nearly 19% of Georgia’s population, are also being contested. Trump holds a narrow 1.6 percentage point lead over Harris in the state, according to the FiveThirtyEight polling average.
Heading into the home stretch, on Monday the Harris campaign plans to hold simultaneous, interconnected organizing events in all seven key states to mobilize voters, according to a senior campaign official.
This content was originally published in Trump and Kamala go to North Carolina on the last weekend of the campaign on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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