Trump, Harris make final pitches to voters with days until election
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are making their final pitches in the week before Election Day, delivering closing arguments while their campaigns work to get out the vote.
On Friday, the candidates will make competing appearances in the swing state of Wisconsin, where polls show their race in a dead heat, as is the case in the other six battlegrounds.
Experts expect 2024 might be the closest presidential race in modern American history. On Monday, the Republican nominee’s campaign was beset with a scandal of its own making after a comic attacked Puerto Rico as “a floating island of garbage” during his set at Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden.
The event also featured anti-Semitic and anti-Arab language, sexism directed at Harris, and other offensive remarks — a display that The New York Times dubbed “a closing carnival of grievances, misogyny, and racism.” At the same time, the trans community is in the crosshairs of negative advertising by the Trump team and Republican allies, commercials that aired during NFL games on Sunday in a last-minute push to get men into the voting booth.
