Harris, Trump trade barbs over treatment of women

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and erstwhile President Donald Trump sparred implicit however women should beryllium treated successful nine arsenic they looked for votes Thursday successful Arizona and Nevada, 2 Southwest governmental battleground states.

Polling shows Harris, the Democratic candidate, and Trump, the Republican candidate, are virtually tied successful the 2 states. Arizona and Nevada are among 7 intimately contested states crossed the 50-state state that are apt to find the nationalist result successful adjacent Tuesday’s election.

In the different 43, polling shows Trump oregon Harris with either decisive oregon comfy leads.

Appeals to Latino voters are cardinal to the campaigns successful some Arizona and Nevada. Trump won Arizona successful his palmy 2016 run for the presidency but mislaid it to President Joe Biden successful 2020. Democrats won Nevada successful some elections.

Migrants crossing from Mexico into the United States crossed the borderline successful Arizona are astatine the halfway of the governmental statement successful the state. Trump has pledged to decorativeness the borderline partition helium started during his 2017-2021 White House tenure. He has besides vowed to circular up and deport undocumented migrants surviving successful the U.S., portion accusing Harris of being anemic connected controlling the influx of migrants.

Harris has said she volition look to enact authorities calling for tougher asylum rules astatine U.S. introduction points to curb the tens of thousands of migrants crossing into the U.S. She supports an migration measure drafted by a bipartisan radical of U.S. senators that Trump leaned connected Republican lawmakers to termination earlier this year.

Pop icon Jennifer Lopez is to articulation Harris connected signifier Thursday nighttime astatine a rally successful Las Vegas, the U.S. gambling mecca.

Trump has scheduled an interrogation successful Arizona with ex-Fox News big Tucker Carlson and a rally successful neighboring Nevada.

Harris and Trump met lone erstwhile look to look successful a debate, but commercialized insults and taunts each time from rally stages, successful run ads and implicit the airwaves.

Their latest quality is implicit the attraction of women.

Trump said astatine a rally connected Wednesday successful the Midwest authorities of Wisconsin that helium would support American women “whether the women similar it oregon not.”

He formed the remark arsenic paternal, but it served to punctual his critics of his past of misogynistic statements and a civilian tribunal lawsuit that recovered him liable for intersexual maltreatment of a New York writer successful the 1990s.

Trump told supporters that his advisers had urged him to halt proclaiming his tendency to support women, saying they had called it “inappropriate.”

But helium told rally-goers, “I said, ‘Well, I’m going to bash it whether the women similar it oregon not. I americium going to support them.’”

Polls amusement Harris with a wide pb among pistillate voters; Trump substantially leads with men.

Harris rapidly jumped connected Trump’s remark, penning connected X, “Donald Trump thinks helium should get to marque decisions astir what you bash with your body. Whether you similar it oregon not.” On Thursday, she said that Trump’s views connected women showed that helium does not recognize “their rights and their quality to marque decisions astir their ain lives.”

Nearly 62 cardinal radical person already voted astatine polling stations oregon by mail. More than 155 cardinal voted successful the 2020 election, astir two-thirds of them aboriginal oregon by message and a 3rd of them connected the authoritative Election Day.

The value of battleground states similar Arizona, Nevada and the 5 others cannot beryllium overstated.

U.S. statesmanlike elections are not decided by the nationalist fashionable ballot but done the Electoral College, which turns the predetermination into 50 state-by-state contests, with 48 of the states awarding each their electoral votes to the victor successful that state. Nebraska and Maine allocate theirs by some statewide 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 with important oregon comfy leads successful 43 of the states, capable for each to get to 200 electoral votes oregon more. Barring an upset successful 1 of those states, the victor volition beryllium decided successful the remaining 7 states, wherever some Harris and Trump person staged predominant rallies, each but ignoring the remainder of the state for run stops.

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