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    Harris and Trump have been pushing since the last day before Election Day

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    By Bill Barrow and JILL COLVIN, Associated Press

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A presidential campaign that has ended in a felony trial, an incumbent being kicked off the ticket and several assassination attempts is coming down to a final sprint in a handful of states on Election day the eve

    Kamala Harris spends Monday in Pennsylvania, whose 19 electoral votes provide the largest prize among the states expected to determine the Electoral College outcome. The vice president and Democratic nominee will tour working-class areas, including Allentown, and conclude with a late-night rally in Philadelphia that includes Lady gaga and Oprah Winfrey.

    Donald Trump he began four rallies in three states, addressing a roaring crowd in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he declared, “With North Carolina, I always got there.”

    “It’s ours to lose,” he said.

    Trump talked about his tough immigration policies and ticked off some of his complaints about his Democratic opponents. He seemed to refer the video that nearly sunk his 2016 campaign as he expressed his amazement at two giant mechanical arms gripping Elon Musk’s reusable rocket – “like gripping your beautiful baby”.

    “See, I’ve gotten a lot better. Years ago, I would have said otherwise. But I learned,” Trump said, drawing laughter from the crowd. “I would have been a little more risky.”

    The late stages of the 2016 campaign saw the “Access Hollywood” tape surface, in which Trump boasted about grabbing women by their genitals.

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    Former President Donald Trump, Republican presidential nominee, wraps up a campaign rally at JS Dorton Arena, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, in Raleigh, NC (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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    Trump has two stops planned later in Pennsylvania, with events in Reading and Pittsburgh, both areas Harris is also visiting. The Republican candidate and former president ends his campaign as he did the first two with a late-night event in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

    There were plenty of empty seats at the JS Dorton Arena, a 5,000-seat venue with additional floor seating in the Raleigh arena, where Trump began his campaign day. One attendee, Ebony Coots, said she regretted voting for Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016 and now supports Trump — but is worried about Tuesday’s election.

    “You know, I might actually try to go to another planet,” said Coots, a 48-year-old delivery driver, if Harris won.

    About 77 million Americans they have already voted early. Any result on election day will have a historic outcome.

    A Trump victory would make him the first president to be indicted and convicted of a felony after suit for quiet money in New York. He will gain the power to end other pending federal investigations against him. Trump would also become only the second president in history to win non-consecutive terms in the White House, after Grover Cleveland at the end of the 19th century.

    Harris is vying to become the first woman, the first black woman and the first person of South Asian descent to reach the Oval Office — four years after she broke the same barriers to national office by becoming President Joe Biden’s second-in-command.

    The vice president rose to the top of the Democratic ticket after Biden’s disastrous performance in a June debate set him on the move withdrawal from the race — one of a series of convulsions that hit this year’s campaign.

    Trump survived by millimeters the bullet of an alleged assassin at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. His Secret Service detail foiled a second attempt in Septemberwhen a gunman pointed a rifle while Trump was playing golf at one of his Florida courses.

    Harris, 60, downplayed the historic nature of her bid, which materialized only after the 81-year-old president ended his re-election bid following his June debate against Trump, 78, heightened questions about Biden’s age.

    Instead, Harris presented himself as a generational changer, emphasized his support for abortion rights after the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision ending the constitutional right to abortion services, and regularly noted the former president’s role in The January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

    Assembling a coalition ranging from progressives like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York to the former Republican vice president Dick CheneyHarris called Trump a threat to democracy and late in the campaign even embraced the criticism that Trump is accurately described as ” fascist.”

    As of Monday, Harris stopped mentioning Trump. She promises to resolve issues and seek consensus while striking an almost exclusively upbeat tone that recalls the early days of her campaign, when she embraced the “politics of joy” and the campaign theme of “Freedom.”

    In Allentown, home to tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans, Harris will hold a rally with rapper Fat Joe before visiting a Puerto Rican restaurant in Reading with Ocasio-Cortez. Both Fat Joe, whose real name is Joseph Cartagena, and Ocasio-Cortez are of Puerto Rican heritage. Stops come after a comic to a Donald Trump’s recent rally suggested that Puerto Rico was a “floating garbage island”.

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