Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are in an extremely close race across the country and in seven battleground states, with both candidates spending most of their time and resources securing multiple paths in the final 15 days before Election Day. rush into. To victory in November.
Map: Harris and Trump are setting their sights on these seven crucial battleground states with events targeting key voter groups whose support could be decisive in a close election. The vice president is scheduled to hold a series of events Monday in three vote-rich suburban Blue Wall counties, including former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, and a group of independents and Republicans who continue to resist the former Republican. trying to gain support from members. But he may still have reservations about her candidacy.
Chester County, Pennsylvania, and Oakland County, Michigan, are two areas where Joe Biden has expanded the Democratic advantage after Hillary Clinton’s performance in 2016, while Waukesha County, Wisconsin, has long been a Republican stronghold. However, there were signs of decline in the Republican Party’s campaign. Trump era.
Trump plans to hold three events in North Carolina, a state he narrowly won four years ago. The state’s 16 electoral votes are critical to the former president’s path to victory in November. If Harris can flip the Tar Heel State (which hasn’t backed a Democrat at the presidential level since Barack Obama in 2008), Trump will win the remaining states plus at least one of the Blue Wall states. It will be necessary to withdraw. Participate in the Sunbelt contest to win the White House.
Money: Money isn’t everything when it comes to political campaigns, but it’s still important. According to the latest fundraising report, Ms. Harris had $346 million in reserves across her political operations at the start of October, dwarfing the approximately $285 million in funds available to her Republican rivals. exceeds. The vice president’s main campaign committee more than tripled the amount Trump raised in September and was able to push his advantage through paid messaging. David Wright and Fredreka Shorten found that the Harris campaign spent about $196 million on advertising in September, compared to $73 million for Trump, according to data from ad tracking firm AdImpact. reported that it was spent.
The message came as both candidates’ closing arguments took shape in the final stages of the campaign, with Harris and Trump intensifying their attacks over the weekend.
Harris’ strategy focuses on using interviews and campaign statements to amplify Trump’s rhetoric that his Republican rival is unfit to be president. Meanwhile, the former president is employing increasingly inflammatory rhetoric and tactics aimed at discrediting his Democratic opponents as he closes out his third presidential campaign. On Sunday, the Trump campaign held an event at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania, where the former president briefly made fries as claimed, with no evidence that Harris had ever worked at a fast-food restaurant as she claimed. Ta. A campaign source told CNN that Harris worked at a McDonald’s in California in the summer of 1983, when she was still a student at Howard University.
