With one week left in the 2024 presidential election campaign, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are making their final campaign stops in key battleground states.
Here’s what we’re watching today:
- Harris’ Ellipse speech: The vice president promised to “put country above party and above self,” but said her rival wants to “keep the American people divided and afraid of each other.
- Trump in Mississippi: Donald Trump will campaign in Green Bay, Wisconsin, with retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre on Wednesday. Favre is shadowed by a welfare spending scandal in his home state of Mississippi.
Candidates cross paths: Kamala Harris will travel from Pennsylvania to Madison, Wisconsin, and then back south to North Carolina. Trump and will be moving in the opposite direction, heading to Green Bay after an event in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
Two closing arguments show the stark choice between Trump and Harris
In the shadow of the White House, seven days before the final votes of the 2024 election are cast, Kamala Harris vowed to put country over party and warned that Donald Trump is obsessed with revenge and his own personal interests.
Less than 48 hours earlier inside Madison Square Garden,
Trump called his Democratic opponent “a train wreck who has destroyed everything in her path.” His allies on stage labeled Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” and made a baseless claim that Harris, a former prosecutor and senator who is trying to become the first woman to be elected president, had begun her career as a prostitute.
Two nights and 200 miles apart, the dueling closing arguments outlined in stark terms the choice U.S. voters face on Nov. 5 when they will weigh two very different visions of leadership and America’s future.
Trump to campaign with former NHL quarterback
Donald Trump will campaign with former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre in Wisconsin on Wednesday night at the same time popular musicians will be rallying with Vice President Kamala Harris about two hours away in the swing state’s capital city.
Mumford & Sons, Gracie Abrams, Remi Wolf and members of the band The National were slated to appear at the Harris rally Wednesday night in Madison.
At the same time, about 140 miles northeast of there, Trump will hold a rally not far from Lambeau Field with Favre.
Harris and Trump will again be in Wisconsin for dueling events on Friday. Trump is holding a rally Friday night in Milwaukee at the Fiserv Center, which was the site of the Republican National Convention. Harris is planning multiple stops in the state but has not said where yet.
Wisconsin is one of seven battleground states that’s seen multiple visits from Trump, Harris, their running mates and other surrogates.
