In the last hours of 2024 presidential campaignVice-President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump they clearly have different theories about how to win White house.

Harris is trying to win over voters who are ambivalent about both candidates in an attempt to recreate the president Joe BidenHis anti-Trump coalition of four years ago, spanning from Bernie Sanders Socialist left up to Liz Cheney former center-right republicans.

That has seen Harris try to downplay issues that could divide that coalition, such as fracking and foreign policy, while remaining ambiguous about how liberal it is on most policy areas outside of abortion.

Harris has officially abandoned many of the positions he held during the 2019 presidential campaign, when he tried to run to the left of Biden in the Democratic primary, but mostly through aides rather than his own voice. A recent Axios report labeled her a “candidate without comment”. Asked how she voted on a California ballot initiative that would toughen penalties for shoplifting and drug dealing, for example, she said, “I’m not going to talk about the vote because, frankly, it’s the Sunday before the election.”

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The vice president delayed major media interviews after supplanting Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket and made a single face-off sit-down on Fox News. The benefit of this strategy has been to avoid giving Republicans easy opportunities to attack her as too liberal, but it comes with the risk of voters feeling like they don’t know her. The progressive base is also more agitated than in 2020, with Israel’s war in Gaza creating rifts among Democrats in particular. Harris, like many Democrats in competitive Senate races this year, is trying to come to the center.

Trump, by contrast, has a basic turnout strategy. He attempted a crossover appeal to former anti-establishment Democrats. A late campaign announcement is presented Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. former RFK running mate Nicole Shanahan and Tulsi Gabbard alongside Trump’s fellow candidate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) and former candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Moldova Vivek Ramaswamy. Pro-Trump social media accounts portray the five and the former president as the Avengers.

In the final weeks of the campaign, Trump sought to rally his die-hard supporters and these disenchanted new progressive converts, putting little emphasis on conservatives who might like his policies but disapprove of his temper and judgment. That task fell to former UN ambassador Nikki Haley on a Sunday op-ed for the Wall Street Journal.

“Millions of people love Donald Trump and millions hate him,” Haley opened up. “Each group will vote accordingly.” She mentioned the Jan. 6 Capitol riot prominently in her list of Trump’s “excesses.” But, she argued, the race is not just a referendum on Trump Democrats would be fine.

“I disagree with Mr. Trump 100% of the time,” Haley wrote. “But I agree with him most of the time and disagree with Ms. Harris almost all of the time. That makes this call easy.”

Haley spoke at the Republican National Convention, but she did not appear at this writing with Trump on the campaign trail. Trump did not appeal to current and former Republicans who shun him for a major part of his closing argument, drawing controversy with remarks Liz Cheney chickenhawk who were widely misinterpreted as a call for the former GOP lawmaker, who supports Harris, to face a firing squad. He didn’t shut up and let his ads or the seemingly GOP-friendly national environment do the talking for him.

Instead, Trump maintained a busy rally schedule, cultivating a close emotional connection with his supporters and engaging in political show events. Harris can’t match such performances, but neither can he come close to her rigid discipline of message.

The two candidates enter election day tied in the national election RealClearPolitics polling average. Trump has the best chance of winning the popular vote in his three presidential campaigns, while Harris supporters were boosted by a shock poll from the Des Moines Register that showed the Democratic nominee before in Iowawhich would support the idea that white anti-Trump voters can give him the presidency.

On the eve of Election Day, the campaigns reflected their differing approaches. “We think this race is going to be incredibly close,” Harris campaign chairwoman Jennifer O’Malley Dillon told reporters, noting that vote counting could take longer in some states. “We are very focused on remaining calm and confident during this time as the process unfolds.”

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“President Donald J. Trump is going into Election Day stronger than he has been in any previous election, and if patriots across the country keep up their momentum and keep up their momentum as expected on Election Day, we’ll be swearing off President Trump in January.” , Trump’s campaign official said. Tim Saler wrote in a note published Monday.

The campaigns are channeling their candidates, with Trump and his team poised while Harris and hers are cautious. We will soon see which of them read the electorate correctly.