Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives for a marketing campaign rally in Lititz, Pa., Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024. (AP Photograph/Evan Vucci)
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People have two days left to choose their new chief in a neck-and-neck presidential election seemingly determined by tens of 1000’s of votes in a handful of swing states.
Former President Donald Trump is hitting Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia on Sunday, whereas Vice President Harris was specializing in Black voters and younger voters in Michigan.
Vice President Harris prays with clergy members after talking at Larger Emmanuel Institutional Church of God in Christ in Detroit on Nov. 3, 2024.
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In Detroit, Vice President Harris attended Sunday service on the Larger Emmanuel Institutional Church of God in Christ.
“In these subsequent two days, we will probably be examined,” Harris instructed the congregation. “Nowadays will demand all the things we have.”
Trump began Sunday campaigning in Lititz, Pa. — a key swing state with 19 electoral votes. The commonwealth is extensively seen as a should win for each the Trump and Harris campaigns.
Throughout his speech on the Lancaster Airport, Trump instructed his supporters that this election is being stolen — a false declare he additionally made within the lead as much as the 2020 election.
“We obtained a variety of crooked folks on the market — we’re combating like a son of a gun,” Trump stated whereas pointing to the press. “We’re combating. They’re combating so laborious to steal this rattling factor. Have a look at what is going on on. Have a look at what is going on on in your state daily. They’re speaking about extending hours and stuff.”
The previous president offered no supporting proof of the election being stolen, however forged doubt on voting machines citing tech-billionaire Elon Musk, who’s backing Trump and has used his possession of X, the net platform beforehand referred to as Twitter, to push misinformation concerning the electoral course of.
He additionally took swipes at a Saturday ballot by J Ann Selzer, the extensively revered Iowa pollster, that exhibits Trump 3 factors behind Harris in Iowa — a state Trump simply gained in 2016 and 2020.
“The polls are simply as corrupt as a few of the writers again there,” Trump stated. “They’ll make these polls sing. They brag about it. I obtained a ballot — I am 10 factors up in Iowa. Certainly one of my enemies simply put out a ballot — I am three down.”
Trump additionally talked about what he known as a failing U.S. financial system and border, whereas additionally taking private jabs at Harris calling her “low IQ.”
“Kamala broke it, and we are going to repair it, and we’ll repair it quick,” Trump stated after arriving greater than an hour late for his occasion. “America will probably be larger, higher, bolder, richer, safer and stronger than ever earlier than.”
Trump plans to journey to Kinston, N.C., for an additional rally Sunday afternoon. He is then set to placed on a 3rd rally in Macon, Ga., — simply 2 hours north of Kinston. The previous president is scheduled to marketing campaign within the Tar Heel state daily till the tip of the election. Trump gained North Carolina’s electoral votes in 2016 and 2020, however polls present an more and more tight race.
In the meantime, Harris was targeted on the “Blue Wall” state of Michigan after campaigning in North Carolina and making a surprise appearance on Saturday Evening Stay in New York Metropolis.
For the fourth Sunday in a row, Harris attended a service at a Black church in a swing state. She deliberate to cease at a restaurant within the Livernois district afterward, a neighborhood with a variety of Black-owned small companies, after which marketing campaign at a barbershop in Pontiac. On Sunday night time, she may have a rally in East Lansing, dwelling of Michigan State College.
Black voters and faculty college students are key to the coalition the Harris marketing campaign must get her throughout the end line in states like Michigan, the place the race is tight.
NPR’s Tamara Keith and Deepa Shivaram contributed to this story.
