Kamala Harris makes final push for votes in battleground Pennsylvania

Democratic statesmanlike campaigner Kamala Harris spent the past time of the United States predetermination run successful Pennsylvania, the authorities that could marque oregon interruption her historical bid for the White House.

Her connection to supporters was blunt: Every ballot is important successful the authorities that holds 19 Electoral College votes, the astir of each the 7 plaything states that volition apt find the outcome.

“We request everyone successful Pennsylvania to vote,” she said to an exuberant day assemblage successful Allentown. “You are going to marque the quality successful this election.”

The polls person Harris fundamentally tied successful Pennsylvania with her Republican rival, erstwhile President Donald Trump, who held 1 of his last rallies successful Reading, Pennsylvania, lone a fewer kilometres distant from Harris.

Over the past fewer days, Harris has sought to further differentiate her run from Trump’s by not mentioning his name, and emphasising optimism and community.

“Momentum is connected our side, momentum is connected our side, tin you consciousness it? We person momentum, right?” she said to cheers.

“Because our run has tapped into the ambitions and aspirations and the dreams of the American people, we are optimistic and excited astir what we volition bash together.”

Harris, 60, could marque US past arsenic the archetypal woman, the archetypal Black pistillate and archetypal idiosyncratic of South Asian descent to scope the Oval Office. Four years ago, she broke the aforesaid barriers successful nationalist bureau by becoming President Joe Biden’s second-in-command.

Harris’s past time was each astir encouraging supporters to ballot and deliberation astir the future.

“It’s clip for a caller procreation of enactment successful America, and I americium acceptable to connection that enactment arsenic the adjacent president of the United States of America,” she said.

‘No joke’

Harris’s Allentown rally was introduced by Grammy award-winning instrumentalist Fat Joe, who was raised by parents of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent. He wasted nary clip successful taking purpose astatine the racist remarks that featured astatine the caller Republican rally successful New York’s Madison Square Garden.

“That was nary gag ladies and gentlemen. That was nary joke, filled with truthful overmuch hate,” helium said.

Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who was portion of Trump’s warm-up enactment astatine the New York rally,  created a firestorm of protests erstwhile helium called Puerto Rico a “floating land of garbage”.

Southeast Pennsylvania is location to thousands of Latinos, including a sizeable Puerto Rican population. Harris and her allies person repeatedly deed astatine Trump for those comments.

Fat Joe reminded the Allentown rally that radical tin marque their feelings wide erstwhile they vote.

“My Latinos, wherever is your pride?” He asked.

“If I americium speaking to undecided Puerto Ricans, particularly successful Pennsylvania, what much bash they gotta bash to amusement you who they are? If I archer you that Kamala Harris is with us, she’s with us.”

On Monday, Harris told supporters: “I basal present arrogant of my longstanding committedness to Puerto Rico and her radical and I volition beryllium a president for each Americans.”

Harris besides swung by Scranton – the birthplace of Biden.

“Are you acceptable to bash this?” she yelled to supporters there, with a ample handmade “VOTE FOR FREEDOM” motion down her and a akin “VOTE” banner to her side.

‘We are not going back’

Throughout the whirlwind past day, Harris repeated 1 of the slogans of her run – “We Are Not Going Back”. It is designed, successful part, to opposition her with Republicans who supported the US Supreme Court determination that overturned a nationalist close to an abortion.

She repeated her committedness to support women’s reproductive rights.

“We are not going backmost due to the fact that ours is the combat for the future, for freedom, similar the cardinal state for a pistillate to marque decisions implicit her ain assemblage and not person the authorities archer her what to do,” Harris said.

Harris volition wrapper up her Pennsylvania circuit with a halt successful Pittsburgh, and reason her last time of campaigning with a late-night Philadelphia rally, which volition see Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey.

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