Harris, Trump look to sway the last undecided voters

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and erstwhile President Donald Trump are headed into the last afloat week of campaigning up of the November 5 statesmanlike election. Both are looking for immoderate tiny vantage they tin summation to woo the sliver of voters who person not made up their minds successful what could beryllium 1 of the country’s closest votes successful decades.

Harris, the Democratic candidate, connected Sunday visited Philadelphia, the country’s sixth biggest metropolis and a Democratic stronghold wherever she needs to heap up her ballot number successful the governmental battleground authorities of Pennsylvania.

It is 1 of 7 tightly contested states some she and Trump, her Republican challenger, person often visited and program to caput to successful the past days of the run for a caller four-year word successful the White House starting successful January.

Harris attended a religion work successful the morning, portion readying to besides halt astatine a barber shop, devour astatine a Puerto Rican edifice and sojourn a younker hoops gym.

Meanwhile, Trump is staging a large rally astatine Madison Square Garden, self-described arsenic “the world’s astir celebrated arena,” successful his autochthonal New York City. Poll amusement Trump has astir nary accidental of winning the ballot successful New York state, wherever helium received little than 40% successful 2020.

But helium wanted to clasp a rally astatine the 19,000-seat arena and immoderate supporters started lining up Saturday greeting to get successful much than 24 hours later. Hundreds of large governmental addresses, popular prima concerts and hoops and hockey matches person been held determination for decades.

“It’s MSG, it's Madison Square Garden," Trump told an interviewer during a caller vigor show. "Guys similar you and I, that means a lot, those words. Madison Square Garden, right? Don't you deliberation so? ... It's a precise large stop."

Harris is readying to marque what her run is calling its “closing argument” to voters connected Tuesday with an code connected the Ellipse successful Washington, not acold from the White House. She is hoping to gully a pronounced opposition with Trump by speaking astatine the site, the spot wherever Trump exhorted his supporters connected January 6, 2021, to spell to the Capitol and “fight similar hell” to effort to artifact Congress from certifying that Democrat Joe Biden had defeated him successful the 2020 election.

More than 1,500 protesters were arrested successful the ensuing riot astatine the American spot of authorities and 140 instrumentality enforcement unit injured. The demonstrators caused $2.9 cardinal successful spot harm to the Capitol arsenic they smashed windows and doors and rampaged done legislature offices.

More than 1,000 rioters person been convicted of an array of offenses, with immoderate of the astir superior offenders sentenced to years of imprisonment. Trump says if helium wins the election, helium mightiness pardon them.

The University of Florida’s Election Lab reports that much than 41 cardinal radical person already voted either successful idiosyncratic astatine polling stations oregon by mail, a fig that could beryllium to beryllium astir one-quarter of the full vote. Early voting and message balloting are continuing passim overmuch of the state this week.

In 2020, much than 155 cardinal votes were yet cast, with astir one-third of them astatine polling sites connected the authoritative Election Day and the remainder up of clip oregon by mail.

Political surveys amusement the 2024 predetermination is precise close, leaving supporters of some candidates capable to cherry-pick which surveys to look astatine if they privation to accidental their campaigner is successful front. The country’s 2 astir salient newspapers, The New York Times and The Washington Post, some accidental Harris narrowly leads successful 4 of the 7 battleground states, capable of an borderline that would manus her the presidency if she holds on.

But ABC News gives Trump the borderline successful its analysis, arsenic does the Realclearpolitics.com aggregation of polling.

U.S. statesmanlike elections are not decided by the nationalist fashionable ballot but alternatively done the Electoral College vote, which turns the predetermination into 50 state-by-state contests, with 48 of the 50 states awarding each their electoral votes to the victor successful their states, either Harris oregon Trump, portion Nebraska and Maine allocate theirs by some authorities and legislature territory ballot counts.

The fig of electoral votes successful each authorities is based connected population, truthful the biggest states clasp the astir sway successful determining the wide nationalist outcome, with the victor needing 270 of the 538 electoral votes to assertion the presidency.
Polls amusement either Harris oregon Trump clasp important oregon somewhat comfy leads successful 43 of the states, capable for each to get to 200 electoral votes. Barring an upset successful 1 of those states, that leaves the result to the remaining 7 states – a bluish tier of 3 states (Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin), 2 states successful the Southeast (Georgia and North Carolina) and 2 successful the Southwest (Arizona and Nevada).

Polling successful the 7 states is easy wrong the margins of statistical error, leaving the result successful uncertainty successful each seven.