On American election eve, Harris provides hope while Trump gives gloom.
By making fresh, unfounded accusations that Democrats are cheating, former President Donald Trump is tarnishing what is already the most bleak closing argument in contemporary American history.
While cautioning about the dangers of a second term for Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris is asserting momentum and inspiring hope and ambition as she asserts that there is a "new generation of leadership in America."
With over 75 million voters having already cast their ballots, voters are finally confronted with an election that has the potential to drastically alter both the nation and the world. In the event that their candidate loses, people on both sides are terrified for their way of life.
Anxious emotions are rising as Trump and Harris race through the swing states that will likely determine an election full of unexpected turns but that nonetheless finishes with them tied in the polls.
Before travelling to Pennsylvania, which may ultimately determine the outcome, the former president will begin Monday in North Carolina, a state that Republicans have long anticipated locking down. He will hold a late-night rally in Michigan to wrap up his third presidential campaign.
Harris will spend Monday in Pennsylvania, another crucial blue wall state, including a major final in Philadelphia with Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey. Harris had her last rally in Michigan on Sunday.
Trump's rants are becoming increasingly extreme by the hour, seemingly portending a new attempt to flout the decision of the electorate in the event of a defeat. He said he shouldn't have left the White House in 2021, for example, and made bogus claims in Pennsylvania on Sunday that Democrats were "fighting so hard to steal this damn thing" and that voting machines would be tampered with.
History is beckoning
If Trump wins on Tuesday, he will be only the second defeated president to win a nonconsecutive term. He will complete one of the most staggering political comebacks ever after trying to torch democracy to stay in power after the 2020 election, being convicted of a crime and escaping two attempts on his life this year.
Harris could shatter the line of nearly 250 years of male commanders in chief and become the first female president. It would be a stunning feat after she unified the demoralized Democratic Party in July when President Joe Biden’s reelection bid was destroyed by the ravages of age.
The nation is as polarised as it was at the beginning of the contest, with polls both nationally and in the crucial swing states unable to identify a clear frontrunner. However, there is still a chance that one candidate might win by a larger margin than expected if they are able to create a late advantage in battleground states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, and Arizona.
Democrats are encouraged by apparently strong early turnout among women voters, with abortion rights a potentially pivotal issue in the first presidential election since the Trump-built Supreme Court majority overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Harris has also worked to repair fissures in the traditional Democratic coalition, trying to appeal to Black men and Latino voters in particular.
Trump is banking on voters weary of high food and housing prices and still feeling the trauma from now-cooled inflation, and he has demonized undocumented migrants to highlight a southern border crisis. The Biden administration struggled for months to recognize the gravity of each issue and to offer effective remedies, meaning the seeds of a possible Harris defeat may have long been sown.
Additionally, Trump's team is certain that he will attract voters who don't normally cast ballots and eat into traditional minority Democratic bases.
However, there are also alarming indications from Trump. Given that his actions after the last election resulted in an invasion of the US Capitol by supporters who beat up police and attempted to stop the certification of Biden's victory, his actions already appear to be a fresh attempt to try to alter the outcome if he loses. Harris has stated that she is prepared to react if the former president declares victory too soon, and his actions imply that the election may remain undecided for days if neither side wins.
Is Trumpism coming to an end, or is a radical new period beginning?
Trump, who is already the most disruptive president of the modern era and has promised unrestrained strongman control if he regains the presidency, is a major factor in this election's unusual nature. In a term he is vowing to run on personal revenge, the twice-impeached Republican nominee would put America's judicial, constitutional, and governance institutions to the ultimate test in generations if he fulfils his own vows.
Trump's agenda is the most autocratic and darkest of any presidential contender in recent history.In a domestic crackdown that would violate civil freedoms, he is proposing the largest-ever mass expulsion of migrants, an operation that would inevitably involve police officers and possibly even the military. employing the rhetoric of some of the most infamous tyrants in history, he has openly contemplated employing US military troops against his political rivals, whom he has referred to as "enemies from within" and vermin.
In the name of working Americans who have turned to his populist, nationalist rhetoric after decades of globalisation have eroded their standard of living, the former president also suggests transforming the economy. However, his passion for tariffs runs the risk of sparking a reaction that might completely collapse the economy. In order to exonerate his criminal prosecutions and satisfy his political and personal desires, Trump also intends to eliminate the Justice Department and other Washington bureaucracy that held him back during his first term.
Trump may be in his strongest political position ever more than nine years after he initially entered the presidential race.
He has stifled criticism within the Republican Party and solidified his unbreakable connection with tens of millions of Americans, who feel he speaks for them and confuses elites who they see to despise them.
Harris, however, has the opportunity to put an end to the Trump era and deliver a second consecutive electoral loss to a Republican Party that tolerated his deception and constitutional dangers in its conservative bid for power.
She is giving people the opportunity to avoid the chaos and threat to the rule of law that Trump's own campaign implies he stands for. Although her proposals are not as revolutionary as Trump's, the vice president also suggests improvements to enhance the lives of working Americans.
She is promising measures to ensure better health care at more affordable costs, to combat what she describes as supermarket corporations' price gouging, and to make housing more affordable.
By providing continuity during a period of profound discontent with local political and economic realities and rising national anxiety about a world where tyrants are on the march, Harris has taken a chance. She has also found it difficult to distance herself from an 81-year-old president who is incredibly unpopular despite leading the most successful economic recovery in the industrialised world since the COVID-19 epidemic.
As he bows to autocrats in China and Russia that he ostensibly wants to imitate, a campaign that erupted in ecstasy is coming to a close with the most scathing warnings that Trump is a fascist who could destroy America's democratic way of life, alienate US allies, and subjugate the country's vital national image.
The path to 270
Harris’ best route to the presidency runs through the Democratic blue wall states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. CNN’s Poll of Polls, averaging the last five nonpartisan surveys, shows no clear leader in any of the trio, though last week indicated a narrow edge for Harris in the first two of those states and a tie in the Keystone State. If she loses Pennsylvania, Harris would need a combination of other swing states, including Georgia, Nevada and Arizona, where poll averages also show no clear leader. If Trump wins Pennsylvania — as he did in 2016 — he could take a huge step toward a second term.
She is creating late momentum in the race, according to the vice president's campaign. David Plouffe, a Harris aide, posted on X on Friday, saying, "It's helpful, from experience, to be closing a presidential campaign with late-deciding voters breaking by double digits to you and the remaining undecideds looking more friendly to you than your opponent."
When the last campaign survey from the Des Moines Register and Mediacom showed Trump at 44% and Harris at 47% among likely voters in a state he won handily in 2020 and 2016, Democrats felt a fresh wave of hope on Saturday.
That margin indicates that there isn't a clear frontrunner in the state and is within the poll's 3.4-point sampling error range. However, the results also indicated that the vice president had a significant lead among women, indicating a move towards Harris from the previous Iowa Poll in September. The vice president might win if she can close the gap with Trump, particularly among white men, if this trend continues across the country.
The Trump campaign released bitter memoranda criticising a series of surveys conducted by Siena College and the New York Times, as well as the Iowa Poll. And the former president quickly expanded on his allegation that he was the victim of a rigged election using the new information.
In Pennsylvania, he declared, "We have been waiting nine years for this, and we only have two days left, and we have all this crap going on with the press, with fake stuff, and with fake polls."
However, none of the surveys are relevant now that Election Day is just hours away. The time has come for Americans to make a decision.
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