Published on 29/10/2024
In the final election campaign sprint by former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, the election rhetoric has risen and the race to the White House has become a “neck to neck” contest, according to multiple polls.
While campaigning in Atlanta, Georgia, Republican candidate Donald Trump denounced his critics, specifically former First Lady Michelle Obama and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, and insisted that he wasn’t a fascist rather he was the “opposite of Nazi” and called Michelle “nasty”.
President Joe Biden, who dropped out of the race to the presidential bid, hosted a Diwali celebration at the White House and praised the character of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris with around a week left for the Election Day.
President Biden said, “I selected Kamala to be my running mate for many reasons. She’s smart, she’s tough, she’s trusted. There’s more experience that she has than that other guy she’s running against. But most important, and I mean it seriously from the bottom of my heart. She has character. She has character.”
Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign is set to become the first political campaign to advertise on the Las Vegas Sphere.
This news was initially reported on Tuesday by 8 News Now in Las Vegas, which noted that the ads will coincide with Harris’s visit to the city on Thursday.
A spokesperson for the Harris campaign stated that they hope the imagery will reach millions of voters in Nevada and online. Josh Marcus Blank, who handles communications for the Harris campaign, also shared the announcement on Tuesday.
Recent polling has revealed that Donald Trump’s support among young Black men has declined since August, while Kamala Harris’s backing has increased.
A new NAACP survey, conducted between 11 and 17 October, found that 21% of Black men under 50 years old indicated they would vote for the former president, down from 27% in August.
Harris’s support within this group rose from 51% to 59% over the same period, according to the researchers.
The election, described by many as “neck to neck,” is now a high-stakes battle for voter turnout. With only days left, Trump and Harris are pulling out all the stops to energize their supporters and sway undecided voters in this critical final stretch.
The intensity of the rhetoric and the closely contested nature of the race suggest that this will be one of the most fiercely fought elections in recent U.S. history.
