Harris, the Democratic Party candidate, delivered her so-called “closing argument” in a Tuesday evening speech near the White House, while Trump held a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, one of the seven political battleground states likely to be key in determining the winner in the tightly contested race.
Harris pledged to work to improve people’s lives and would show up to work at the White House with a to-do list, while saying Trump is focused only on himself and would begin a new term with an enemies list.
Her speech was located in the same area where in January 2021 Trump addressed his supporters shortly before a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol to interrupt the certification of Trump’s election loss to President Joe Biden.
“Look, we know who Donald Trump is. He is the person who stood at this very spot nearly four years ago and sent an armed mob to the United States Capitol to overturn the will of the people in a free and fair election,” Harris said.
Polls show the contest in a virtual dead heat, with Harris and Trump tied in some crucial states or only narrowly ahead or behind, all within the statistical margin of error.
Nearly 49 million people have already cast votes, either at polling stations or by mail, ahead of next Tuesday’s official Election Day, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab. More than 155 million voted in the 2020 election.
Before heading to Allentown, Pennsylvania, a city with a Latino-majority population, Trump spoke Tuesday at his oceanside Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. He described Harris as “grossly incompetent … a total trainwreck.”
But Trump took no questions from reporters and did not mention comic Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke at a Trump rally Sunday at New York’s Madison Square Garden, claiming the Hispanic U.S. territory of Puerto Rico is a “floating island of garbage.”
