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In battle against Trump, Harris crisscrosses biggest of the battlegrounds on election eve
ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Vice President Kamala Harris is urging her supporters to “get out to vote… let’s win.”
The Democratic presidential nominee, at a canvass kickoff Monday afternoon at a ski area in Scranton, Pennsylvania, told the crowd, “Let’s get to work. Twenty-four hours to go.”
On the final full day of campaigning ahead of her Election Day face-off against former President Trump, the Democratic Party nominee was crisscrossing the largest of the battleground states.
Following her event near Scranton, Harris headed south to Allentown, a majority Latino city, 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 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
“Momentum is on our side,” Harris told the large crowd in Allentown. “Can you feel it.”
The vice president was then scheduled to make a stop at a Puerto Rican restaurant in Reading, where she would be joined by Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a rising Democratic Party star, and by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, the high-profile member of progressive and diverse House members known as the Squad.
The spotlight on courting Pennsylvania’s crucial Puerto Rican voters comes as polls suggest Trump has made gains with Latinos, and in the wake of a controversy sparked by a racist joke by a comedian who called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” as he spoke ahead of the former president last month at a large rally in New York City’s Madison Square Garden.
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Harris will close out her election eve swing through Pennsylvania with two star-studded rallies – an evening one in Pittsburgh and a late-night one in Philadelphia, by the famed “Rocky Steps” outside the city’s Art Museum.
But Harris doesn’t have the state to herself on this final full day of campaigning.
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally at Santander Arena, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, in Reading, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Trump, who is also making stops Monday in battlegrounds North Carolina and Michigan, holds two rallies in Pennsylvania – in the afternoon in Reading followed by an evening one in Pittsburgh. And he held a rally Sunday in Lititz, outside of Lancaster.
“With your vote, we’re going to win Pennsylvania. And we’re going to defeat Kamala and the radical left,” the former president said at his Reading campaign event.
And he told his supporters “we’ve been waiting for this. I’ve been waiting four years for this.”
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With 19 electoral votes up for grabs, it’s the biggest prize among the seven key battlegrounds whose razor-thin margins decided President Biden’s 2020 election victory over Trump and are likely to determine if Trump or Harris succeeds Biden in the White House.
“Pennsylvania is the one state that it’s hard to see someone losing and then still winning the presidential race,” Mark Harris, a Pittsburgh-based longtime Republican national strategist and ad maker, told Fox News. “It’s clearly ground zero.”
Harris, a veteran of multiple GOP presidential campaigns, called Pennsylvania “a big tipping point state.”
And pointing to the state’s major cities – Philadelphia and Pittsburgh – its electorally crucial suburban areas, and its vast swath of rural counties, Harris highlighted, “I think it’s a good microcosm of America.”
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, headlines a rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Election Eve, November 4, 2024. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
Harris, Trump, and their running mates – GOP vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance and his Democratic counterpart, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz – as well as top surrogates, have repeatedly stopped in the state this summer and autumn.
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