US election: 3 days left – What polls say, what Harris and Trump are up to

On Friday, the US statesmanlike candidates campaigned successful the cardinal Midwestern plaything states of Michigan and Wisconsin, seeking to lure voters.

At rallies, Vice President Kamala Harris slammed erstwhile President Donald Trump for his remarks earlier this week suggesting that erstwhile Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, a staunch professional of Trump, should person “guns trained connected her”. Trump has antecedently suggested that Cheney should look subject tribunals.

Meanwhile, successful his rallies, Trump insisted that the “guns” remark was a morganatic disapproval of Cheney’s hawkish overseas argumentation stance: If she promoted wars, she should person to combat successful them herself.

What are the latest updates from the polls?

Nationally, FiveThirtyEight’s canvass tracker shows Harris up by 1.3 points, arsenic she has been for the past week, and astir wherever she and Trump person been for the past fewer days – but astatine a overmuch person borderline than the 2.8 percent points she was up by precisely a period ago.

In captious plaything states, which could find the predetermination outcome, the contention is adjacent tighter.

Key battleground states see Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Nevada.

FiveThirtyEight’s regular canvass tracker indicates that Harris’s pb successful Michigan is astir 1 point. However, she has mislaid her pb successful Nevada, wherever Trump present leads by 0.4 points.

In Wisconsin, her pb has risen to 0.8 points, up from 0.6 connected Thursday.

Meanwhile, Trump’s vantage successful Pennsylvania has shrunk from 0.7 points to 0.1 points. His pb successful North Carolina continues and is present astatine 1.3 points. Trump is besides up successful Arizona by 2.1 points, and by 1.5 points successful Georgia. However, each these gaps are wrong the borderline of mistake for polls – so, successful effect, the 2 candidates are successful a dormant vigor crossed the plaything states.

What was Kamala Harris up to connected Friday?

Harris spent her time successful Wisconsin with events successful Janesville, Little Chute, Madison and Milwaukee. Her events boasted singers GloRilla, Cardi B and Flo Milli.

She lambasted Trump implicit his verbal onslaught connected Liz Cheney. Trump had attacked Cheney, suggesting the erstwhile legislator who has endorsed Harris successful the contention to the White House should look combat with guns trained connected her for her argumentation stance.

“She’s a extremist warfare hawk,” Trump said connected Thursday astatine a run lawsuit with ex-Fox News tv big Tucker Carlson successful Glendale, Arizona, besides calling Cheney “a deranged person” and “a precise dumb individual”.

Harris described Cheney arsenic “a existent patriot” and said Trump’s expanding “violent rhetoric” should disqualify him from becoming president again.

“His enemies database has grown longer. His rhetoric has grown much extreme,” Harris told reporters aft arriving successful Madison, Wisconsin, 1 of her run stops connected Friday. “And helium is adjacent little focused than earlier connected the needs and the concerns and the challenges facing the American people.”

In her rallies, she besides promised to physique an system for mundane radical and perceive to a wide scope of voices, asking supporters to promote household and friends to vote.

CNN has reported that the Harris run has changed its messaging connected Israel’s warfare successful Gaza, by highlighting antithetic aspects of her presumption connected Israel successful abstracted advertisements targeting undecided Jewish and Arab voters.

One advertisement successful Michigan, wherever Arab voters person expressed choler implicit the Biden-Harris administration’s proviso of billions of dollars successful subject enactment for Israel’s warfare successful Gaza, says Harris “will not beryllium silent” astir the suffering of the Palestinians.

Harris has nevertheless refused demands to chopped disconnected subject assistance to Israel, contempt a litany of violations of planetary instrumentality by the US ally.

Another advertisement targeting imaginable Jewish voters successful Pennsylvania promises that Harris volition “stand up for Israel’s close to support itself” and “defend our forces and our interests against Iran and Iran-backed terrorists”.

That video advertisement cuts retired a conception of her code wherever Harris calls the suffering successful Gaza “heartbreaking”.

What was Donald Trump up to connected Friday?

At his rally successful Milwaukee, astir 16km (10 miles) from Harris’s rally, Trump was joined by Republican politicians and different supporters specified arsenic Robert F Kennedy Jr, earlier helium took the signifier for a code that lasted for much than an hour.

He pledged to “prevent World War III”. He called Harris a “low-IQ individual” and said helium would “end inflation”.

He besides hyped up fears of undocumented immigrants.

“We privation radical to travel into our country, we do. But they person to travel successful legally, done a system. They person to emotion us. They person to emotion our country,” Trump said.

And earlier helium wrapped up his remarks, helium made a last notation to his adversary during the rally: an uncooperative microphone.

“I don’t person to beryllium here. But if I had my choice, I’d alternatively beryllium close present with a broken-down s*** microphone successful Wisconsin. I would alternatively beryllium successful Wisconsin than immoderate beauteous beach.”

Trump’s run besides insisted that the “guns” remark was a morganatic disapproval of Cheney’s hawkish overseas argumentation stance: If she promoted wars, she should person to combat successful them herself.

In Milwaukee, Trump besides revisited his mendacious claims of winning the 2020 predetermination – adjacent erstwhile the results accidental otherwise.

“You know, successful 2016, I wanted to triumph Wisconsin truthful bad. He said it’s not doable,” Trump said, gesturing to erstwhile Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson successful the crowd.

“You are a precise hard state, but I won it. I did triumph it contempt your difficulty. I really won it twice, but these are insignificant details.”

Trump did not triumph Wisconsin twice. In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden eked retired a triumph implicit Trump successful the state.

Trump besides held a little backstage gathering with members of the Arab American assemblage successful the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, earlier holding a rally successful Warren, Michigan.

What’s adjacent for the Harris and Trump campaigns?

Harris heads to Charlotte, North Carolina

On Saturday, Harris volition caput to the plaything authorities of North Carolina for a rally successful Charlotte. Her rally is erstwhile again expected to beryllium a star-studded lawsuit with musicians Jon Bon Jovi and Khalid performing.

Democrats person not won a statesmanlike contention successful North Carolina since 2008 and Harris is keen to crook the page.

At a rally successful Raleigh, North Carolina connected Wednesday, she insisted that the Democrats are “actually warring for a democracy”.

One idiosyncratic could beryllium heard during the rally trying to outcry implicit Harris, but it is unclear what helium was saying.

“Unlike Donald Trump, I don’t judge radical who disagree with maine are the enemy,” she said arsenic the crowd’s chants drowned retired the protester’s voice. “He wants to enactment them successful jail, I’ll springiness them a spot astatine the table.

“I pledge to beryllium a president for each Americans and to ever enactment state supra enactment and self,” she added.

Trump besides to sojourn Charlotte, North Carolina

Trump, who was successful North Carolina connected Wednesday, volition besides caput to Charlotte connected Saturday.

In 2020’s statesmanlike race, Trump had his narrowest triumph retired of each 50 states successful North Carolina. In the upcoming November 5 vote, polls erstwhile again amusement Trump with a tiny pb implicit his Democratic rival.

Paul Shumaker, a Republican operative, laid it retired for Al Jazeera successful stark terms: Republican registration started declining, portion the fig of “unaffiliated” voters gradually rose.

“Now determination are nary wide Republicans left, and determination are less mean Republicans, too,” Shumaker said.

Political idiosyncratic Chris Cooper told Al Jazeera that North Carolina is “right connected the razor’s borderline betwixt reddish and blue”.

But it is simply a 3rd class – voters who place neither arsenic reddish nor bluish – that whitethorn yet determine who wins.