The Harris tiebreaker's last-ditch effort

In the final two days of the campaign, both US presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump spent time in "battleground" states to continue persuading undecided voters.

On the final day of the campaign, November 4th (US time), Democratic presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican candidate and former President Donald Trump were both in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, which both campaigns consider a key swing state in the 2024 election, according to The New York Times . On November 3rd, both candidates also continued campaigning in several other battleground states.

"We have momentum."

Harris spent the entire day of November 3rd in the battleground state of Michigan. Accordingly, Harris visited a church for Black people in Detroit on the morning of November 3rd, urging Americans to look beyond Trump, according to AFP. "Let's turn a new page and write the next chapter of our history," Harris urged.

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Harris visited the church amid polls showing Trump gaining support from some Black voters who typically vote for Democrats. According to a New York Times/Siena College poll released on November 3rd, Harris is in a close race with Trump in Michigan.

On the evening of November 3, Harris delivered a speech to approximately 6,000 people at Michigan State University, promising to end the Hamas-Israel conflict in the Gaza Strip, amidst condemnation from Michigan's 200,000-strong Arab American community of the country regarding Washington's handling of the conflict, according to AFP.

Former US President Donald Trump in Kingston, North Carolina, and Vice President Kamala Harris in Detroit, Michigan, on November 3.

"As president, I will do everything in my power to end the conflict in Gaza. And to ensure the rights of the Palestinian people to respect, freedom, and security," Harris emphasized at the beginning of her speech.

However, the rest of her speech was optimistic, with Harris spending more time urging people to go out and vote than attacking Trump. She stressed that this is "one of the most important elections of our lifetime and we have momentum. That momentum is on our side."

Will there be an overwhelming victory?

Meanwhile, Trump spent November 3rd campaigning in three other "battleground" states: Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia. At a rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania, Trump criticized the Democratic Party as "evil" and said he wouldn't mind if reporters were shot, according to Reuters. He also said he shouldn't have left the White House in 2021 after refusing to accept his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.

Trump said he "shouldn't have" left the White House despite losing the 2020 election.

Later, in a speech in Kingston, North Carolina, Trump said that "on Tuesday (November 5), we're going to have a victory so overwhelming it's unchangeable." However, polls suggest the results are likely to be very close. NBC News on November 3 released the results of a nationwide poll based on 1,000 registered voters, showing that both Trump and Harris received 49% support.

As of November 3rd, more than 78 million Americans had already cast their votes ahead of the official election day on November 5th, according to Reuters, citing data from the University of Florida's Elections Lab. This figure is nearly half of the total 160 million votes cast in the 2020 US presidential election.

After the official voting on November 5th concludes, depending on how close the race is, the winner could be announced that same evening, the following morning, a few days later, or even weeks later, according to the BBC.

Clinton defended Bush's choice.

In an interview with CNN published on November 3rd, former US President Bill Clinton defended former President George W. Bush's choice not to play a more active role in the 2024 presidential campaign and did not specify who he endorsed as the presidential candidate. "First of all, I think he has spoken out more than he has been credited with," Clinton said.

Clinton also said that Bush genuinely wanted to get out of politics. Clinton added that he thought Bush wanted to clarify his beliefs without creating too much distance between himself and the Republican Party.

After reading former President Clinton's comment, someone close to former President Bush told CNN that Bush "has truly distanced himself from presidential politics, but he has worked quietly and diligently to keep the Senate under Republican control."

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