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Democratic presidential nominee, US Vice
President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally at Jenison Field House on
the Michigan State University campus on November 03, 2024
Kamala Harris courted voters angered by the
Gaza war while Donald Trump doubled down on violent rhetoric with a comment
about journalists being shot as the tense US election campaign headed into its
final hours.
The Democratic vice president and the Republican
former president frantically blitzed several swing states as they tried to win
over the last holdouts with less than 36 hours left until polls open on
Election Day.
Trump predicted a "landslide," while
Harris told a raucous rally at Michigan State University that "we have
momentum -- it's on our side."
The 2024 race is going down to the wire, with
more key states effectively tied at this point than in any comparable election.
Over 77.6 million people have cast early votes, around half of the total ballots
cast in 2020.
With the clock ticking, Harris, 60, spent the
day in must-win Michigan where she risks losing the support of a 200,000-strong
Arab-American community that has denounced US handling of the Israel-Hamas war.
"As president, I will do everything in my
power to end the war in Gaza," Harris said at the start of her speech,
noting that there were leaders of the community at her rally.
"I want to say this year has been
difficult, given the scale of death and destruction in Gaza, given the civilian
casualties and displacement in Lebanon. It is devastating."
'Demonic'
But
the rest of the speech was upbeat, with the US vice president spending more
time on urging people to get out and vote than on attacks on her rival Trump.
"We
got two days to get this done," she said. "Let's spend the next two
days so that we have no regrets."
Trump's Sunday timetable centered on Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia -- the three biggest swing-state prizes in the Electoral College system that awards US states influence according to their population.
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