‘Let’s get this done’: Harris rallies supporters in Pennsylvania
Kamala Harris sought to reassure her supporters during a campaign stop in Scranton, Pennsylvania, telling them âweâre goodâ and urging them to âenjoy this momentâ during the final 24 hours of her campaign.
âIâm telling you guys, weâre good,â Harris addressed Democratic canvassers. âWeâre good. So weâre going to keep doing this work.â
Harris recalled campaigning with her ironing board when she first ran for office as district attorney for San Francisco. âNo one thought I could win,â she said.
âI like to say that when you love something, you fight for it.â
She told her supporters she could âfeel the energyâ and called for them to go and knock on neighborsâ doors, âeven if youâve not met themâ.
âAs weâre getting out the vote, letâs be intentional about building community, about building coalitions and reminding people, we all have so much more in common than what separates us.â
âWe love our country and thatâs what this fight is about,â she said. âLetâs get this done.â
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Donald Trump on stage in Reading, Pennsylvania
Donald Trump is now on stage in Reading, Pennsylvania, his second of four campaign rallies planned for today.
His speech thus far has focused on his claims that migrants are dangerous, and that he will deport them, if elected:
November 5, 2024 will be Liberation Day in America. And on day one, I will launch the largest deportation program of criminals in American history. Weâre going to get them out.
Trump heads to Pittsburgh after this, then to Grand Rapids, Michigan, for his last appearance of the day.
Lauren Gambino
How will the vice-president spend her election day?
With her ballot already posted and her campaign stops finished, Harris will return to Number One Observatory Circle in Washington in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, following a late-night rally in Philadelphia.
Throughout the rest of the day, the campaign said she will be âon the airwavesâ â calling into local radio stations in the seven battleground states.
The eleventh-hour calls are about âmaking sure that those final voters who are on their way to work, on their way home, taking a lunch break, understand the stakes, but understand her vision for where she wants to take this country over the course of the next four years,â Harrisâs communications director, Michael Tyler, told reporters.
âAnd most importantly, make sure that they understand when, where and how to vote ⦠sheâs going put in the work that it takes to hit 270, and thatâs until polls close tomorrow.â
Sam Levine
This is the second Kamala Harris rally Iâve attended this week in Pennsylvania, and I have noticed that speakers are bringing up the racist joke about Puerto Ricans made at a recent Trump rally much more often than they were before.
âI want a president of the United States who looks to the 500,000 Puerto Ricans who live in our communities and strengthens our neighborhoods,â Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro said to loud cheers.
Lauren Gambino
The Harris campaign also says itâs prepared to combat any attempts by Trump to challenge the election results.
âWe have hundreds of lawyers across the country ready to protect election results against any challenge that Trump might bring,â said Dana Remus, a senior campaign adviser and outside counsel. âThis will not be the fastest process, but the law and the facts are on our side.â
Remus said the Trump campaignâs legal efforts were designed to undermine faith in the electoral process.
âKeep in mind that the volume of cases does not equate to a volume of legitimate concerns. In fact, it just shows how desperate theyâre becoming,â she said.
Harris campaign expects ‘near complete results’ from Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan on election night
Lauren Gambino
Jen OâMalley Dillon, chair of the Harris campaign, offered a rundown of when the team is expecting to learn the results from key states on election night.
By the end of election night, the campaign expects to have ânear complete resultsâ from Georgia, North Carolina and Michigan, and âpartial results from Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Arizonaâ, she said.
âBy Wednesday morning, we expect most results in from Wisconsin and additional results from Pennsylvania and potentially Michigan,â she said. More results from Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada will come after that.
Pennsylvania is seen as an all-but-must-win for Harris, who is spending the final day before the election barnstorming the commonwealth.
Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro gets loud ovation when he takes stage
Sam Levine
Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro just received a loud ovation when he took to the stage a little after 3pm.
âThis race is about something deeper that a policy or a bill,â he said. âItâs about the character of this great nation.â
The last time battleground state Nevada went red was in 2004, when George W Bush was on the ballot. But Republicans hope that this year, Donald Trump will end Democratsâ streak.
As with all the other swing states in this election, polls have shown Trump neck and neck with Kamala Harris in Nevada â an encouraging sign for the GOP, considering its recent history of Democratic strength. But Jon Ralston, a veteran political forecaster and editor of the Nevada Independent, released his projections for the year, and does not think Trump can pull it off.
From his article:
The key to this election has always been which way the non-major-party voters break because they have become the plurality in the state. They are going to make up 30 percent or so of the electorate and if they swing enough towards Harris, she will win Nevada. I think they will, and Iâll tell you why: Many people assume that with the GOP catching up to the Democrats in voter registration that the automatic voter registration plan pushed by Democrats that auto-registers people as nonpartisans (unless they choose a party) at the DMV had been a failure for the party. But I donât think so. There are a lot of nonpartisans who are closet Democrats who were purposely registered by Democrat-aligned groups as nonpartisans. The machine knows who they are and will get them to vote. It will be just enough to overcome the Republican lead â along with women motivated by abortion and crossover votes that issue also will cause. I know some may think this reflects my well-known disdain for Trump, heart over data. But that is not so. I have often predicted against my own preferences; history does not lie. I just have a feeling she will catch up here, but I also believe â and please remember this â it will not be clear who won on Election Night here, so block out the nattering nabobs of election denialism. Itâs going to be very, very close. Prediction: Harris, 48.5 percent; Trump 48.2 percent; others and None of These Candidates, 3.3 percent.
Sam Levine
Allentown mayor Matthew Tuerk is the first speaker at this rally.
He is the cityâs first Latino mayor and is laying into Donald Trump after a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico an island of garbage.
There is a huge Puerto Rican population in Allentown, and there were loud boos in the crowd, and then cheers, when some people in the audience held up a big Puerto Rican flag.
âPuerto Rico se respeta, Allentown se respeta,â Tuerk said.
Kamala Harris holds a slight lead over Donald Trump in the final national PBS News/NPR/Marist poll published today, just hours before election day.
The poll shows Harris holding a four-point lead over Trump, with the support of 51% of likely voters compared with Trumpâs 47%. The lead lies just outside the studyâs 3.5-point margin of error.
A little more than half of independents support Trump, a 5-point lead over Harris, according to the poll.
Mostly notably, the poll shows that the gender gap has shrunk significantly in the last month of the campaign. Trumpâs lead over Harris among male voters has dropped to just 4 points, down from the 16-point advantage in October.
At the same time, 55% of women said they will back Harris in the latest poll, meaning that her lead among women has dropped from 18 points to 11 points since last month.
Sam Levine
Before Kamala Harris took the stage here at Muhlenberg college in Allentown, I chatted with Elizabeth Slaby, an 81-year-old, who was the first person in line this morning.
She said she got here at 6am â so early that she had to circle the block before getting in line.
She was a registered Republican for more than 50 years. But after the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 she changed her voter registration.
Sheâs her with her son and grandson. âI never thought Iâd see a woman president and now Iâm so so excited,â she said.