WASHINGTON: No past presidential election in the US has shown such a tough contest as the race to the White House between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris seems for the contest on Nov 5th.
Both the candidates, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump predicted victory as they campaigned across Pennsylvania on Monday in the final, frantic day of an exceptionally close U.S. presidential election.
The campaign has seen head-spinning twists: two assassination attempts and a felony conviction for Republican former President Trump, and Democratic Vice President Harris’ surprise elevation to the top of the ticket after President Joe Biden, 81, dropped his reelection bid under pressure from his own party. More than $2.6 billion has been spent to sway voters’ minds since March, according to AdImpact, an analytics firm.
“Tomorrow is election day and the momentum is on our side,” Harris said at a rally in Pittsburgh. “We must finish strong,” she added.
“Make no mistake, we will win,” the Democratic presidential candidate added. “We are fighting for a democracy,” she said.
“Your vote is your voice, and your voice is your power.”
Harris finished meeting voters at a Puerto Rican restaurant in Reading, Pennsylvania and then went door knocking.
“It’s the day before the election and I just wanted to come by and say I hope to earn your vote,” Harris told a middle-aged female voter and her husband.
The woman enthusiastically told the VP she had already voted for her, and said her husband would cast his ballot for Harris.
On the other hand, Donald Trump warned that, if elected, he would punish Mexico with tariffs unless the Mexican government moved to stop the flow of fentanyl into the United States.
At his rally in Pittsburgh Trump said he would move quickly to crack down on drug trafficking along the southern U.S. border with Mexico and that he would use tariffs. “We will immediately stop the drugs pouring across our border,” he said.
Trump said he would impose tariffs on goods from Mexico of 25% and would do the “same thing to China” for exporting fentanyl to Mexico.
“Every damn thing that they sell into the United States is going to have like a 25% (tariff) until they stop drugs from coming in. And let me tell you something, those drugs will stop so damn fast that your head will spin,” Trump said.
