Kamala Harris’ fans left her star-studded rally early Thursday night with just 11 days until the election and polls showing the tide turning toward Donald Trump.
Rivals in the presidential race campaigned in battleground states to make their final pleas to undecided voters in what is shaping up to be one of the closest elections in history.
A record 29 million people have already cast their votes, either in person in advance or by mail, in a campaign that will go to the end.
The vice president will bring in political powerhouses and celebrities to help her with her closing argument. Beyoncé Knowles is scheduled to perform alongside her in Texas on Friday.
But his successful lineup of Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen, Samuel L. Jackson and Spike Lee wasn’t enough to convince hundreds of fans to stay to hear his speech in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Democrat took the stage an hour late in the battleground state to claim that Trump wants to be a dictator if he returns to the White House and leveled accusations that he wanted his generals to be like Adolf Hitler’s.
After Springsteen performed ‘Dancing in the Dark’ and portrayed Trump as a would-be tyrant, Harris continued her recent strategy of directly attacking her opponent and suggesting he will lead a fascist administration.
But members of the crowd headed for the exits as she spoke, concluding a day that showed the suspended presidential election may be moving away from her.
Kamala Harris’ fans left her star-studded rally early Thursday night with just 12 days until the election and polls showing the tide turning toward Donald Trump.
A victory in Georgia is essential for either candidate to win the November 5 presidential election.
Polls show the race is essentially a toss-up, with Trump and Harris separated by the slimmest of margins in the seven states that will decide who wins.
But on Thursday, seven polls showed the Republican has the momentum in the final stretch of the campaign.
Trump took the stage in Arizona – another critical swing state – just before Harris and accused her of turning the United States into a “garbage can” because of her open border policies that led to a historic surge in migrants crossing from Mexico. .
The former president described the United States as a human “dumping ground,” hours after polls showed he had surpassed Harris nationwide for the first time.
A Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday shows the Republican presidential candidate holding a three-point lead nationally over the vice president.
The Democrat took the stage an hour late in the battleground state to claim that Trump wants to be a dictator if he returns to the White House and leveled accusations that he wanted his generals to be like Adolf Hitler’s.
The vice president’s successful lineup of Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen, Samuel L. Jackson and Spike Lee was not enough to convince hundreds of fans to stay to hear her speech in Atlanta, Georgia.
The poll gives Trump 47 percent and Harris 45 percent among registered voters. This is a reversal of the survey conducted by the Wall Street Journal in August.
In the CNBC All-America Economic Poll, Trump also leads 48 percent to 46 percent.
In the seven battleground states likely to decide the election, the CNBC poll shows Trump leading 48 percent to Harris’ 47 percent among voters.
In that survey, economic issues remain the biggest concern for voters. When it comes to prioritizing inflation, the economy, and the needs of the middle class, Trump has a big advantage.
The poll found that 42 percent of voters said they would be better off financially if Trump won, compared to just 24 percent who said the same if Harris won.
Another 29 percent said their financial situation will not change no matter who wins the White House.
After Bruce Springsteen performed ‘Dancing in the Dark’ and portrayed Trump as a would-be tyrant, Harris continued her recent strategy of directly attacking her opponent and suggesting he will lead a fascist administration.
Donald Trump criticized Kamala Harris for her border security and immigration plans in front of thousands of people in Arizona on Thursday, saying she has made the United States a human “dumping ground.”
“We’re like a dump,” Trump said of the United States under Kamala Harris. “We are like a garbage can for the world”
On Thursday night, an Emerson College poll showed Harris only ahead of Trump by three points in New Hampshire, a state she is expected to win handily.
The Emerson College poll gives Harris at 50 percent and Trump at 47 percent, and two percent of Granite State voters say they would vote for “someone else.”
The result is alarming for Harris, who in many models is projected to win the state.
“Harris'” margin among women is similar to Biden’s in 2020; However, male voters have shifted about two points toward Trump,” said Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling.
“Furthermore, Harris is underperforming Biden’s support in 2020 among independent voters, who outperform Harris by 13 points but outperform Biden by about twice that amount.”
But there are still millions of Americans left to vote and the margins are very close.
CNN senior data analyst Harry Enten said Thursday that there is a high probability that one of the candidates could sweep all the swing states in an “explosion.”
On Thursday night, after Obama spoke, Harris took the stage, but her usual song did not play, leaving the 60-year-old to enter without the same energy seen at other rallies.
Samuel L. Jackson speaks to the crowd before Harris in Atlanta, Georgia
Director Spike Lee told Kamala Harris’ supporters that “her future is being written” in an attack on Donald Trump.
While the vast majority of attendees at the 15,000-capacity stadium stayed, dozens of people were seen leaving the stands as she spoke.
Harris hugged Obama as she entered and recalled going to Springfield, Illinois, seventeen years ago to support Obama’s run for president at the top of her speech. She said their support and friendship means a lot.
The vice president also vowed to win the election, borrowing a phrase from Obama’s successful campaign declaring “yes, we can” as the crowd chanted the rallying cry used in the 2008 campaign.
Before Harris took the stage, Obama gave his own speech similar to one the former Democratic president has been delivering across the country.
He warned that Trump acts “so crazy” that people have gotten used to it and issued a stern warning about the former president. He called him “crazy” and “I want to be king.”
Obama noted that Trump’s former White House chief of staff, John Kelly, recently claimed in an interview that Trump said he wanted his generals to be like Hitler’s generals.
Obama said a general rule of thumb is “not to say you want to do something like Hitler” and called it “just good political advice.”
The former president praised General Mark Milley and General John Kelly, who have spoken out against the former Republican president as serious people.