Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are making their closing arguments to voters in battleground states during the final two days before Election Day.
Trump was in Pennsylvania earlier today, is rallying in North Carolina this afternoon, and will stop in Georgia this evening. Harris is focusing her day in Michigan, with a series of stops in the Detroit area before a rally in East Lansing.
Here’s what’s happened on the campaign trail so far Sunday:
Trump:
• The former president began his day in Lititz, Pennsylvania, where he invoked dark rhetoric during a lengthy rally. Trump said he thought he “shouldn’t have left” the White House after he lost the 2020 election, which he has still not conceded.
• He also said he wouldn’t mind if a gunman had to “shoot through” the group of reporters at the event if that person was trying to get to him, in reference to the layout of the bulletproof glass surrounding him. Later, his campaign sought to clean up the former president’s violent rhetoric toward journalists, claiming he had been “looking out for their welfare.”
• Trump continued to slam the final Iowa poll from the Des Moines Register and Mediacom, which shows him trailing Harris by 3 points among likely voters, saying it is not accurate. The poll found no clear leader in the race, and was considered notable because Trump carried the state in both 2016 and 2020.
• He later told NBC News that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent comment about removing fluoride from public water “sounds OK to me.” Trump has suggested Kennedy, who has prominently promoted baseless conspiracy theories about public health, would have a role in shaping his future administration’s health policy.
Harris:
• The vice president made her first stop in Detroit where she addressed the congregation at Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church of God in Christ. Harris focused her message on unity and a need to act in service to democracy in the country. “So church, in just two days we have the power to decide the fate of our nation — for generations to come,” Harris said.
• Later, Harris confirmed to reporters that she has cast her mail-in ballot in the 2024 election, sending it to California, where she is registered. She declined to comment on how she voted on a crime-related statewide ballot measure.
• Harris also said she is continuing to work to earn the support of Arab American voters — a critical demographic in Michigan — amid criticism of the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of Israel’s war in Gaza.
• Harris then made stops to greet customers at Kuzzo’s Chicken and Waffles in Detroit and Elam’s Barbershop, a Black-owned barbershop in Pontiac.
