Battleground state showdown: Harris and Trump hold dueling rallies miles apart

MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump held competing rallies on the same Friday evening, just a few miles apart, in the battleground of Wisconsin’s largest city.

With just four days until Election Day, the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates made their final stop in Wisconsin, where almost all the latest polls point to a race for the margin of error between the two candidates.

“We have four days to get this done. Four days. No one can sit on the sidelines,” the vice president emphasized to her supporters. “For those of you who haven’t voted yet, no judgment, but please get on it as soon as you can.”

To beat Wisconsin, Harris will need to raise the score in Milwaukee and surrounding suburbs to make up for the expected red wave in the state’s rural counties.

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The Harris campaign said more than 12,000 people packed into the Wisconsin State Fair Park Exposition Center, in West Allis, just yards outside Milwaukee city limits.

Trump, speaking at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee — the same arena where he accepted his party’s presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in July — told his supporters, “I want your damn vote.”

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Speaking before Harris at her rally was popular rapper and songwriter Cardi B, who told the crowd she had no plans to vote in the presidential election until Harris replaced President Biden atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket in July.

“I wasn’t planning on voting this year. … But when Kamala Harris entered the race, she completely changed her mind,” the entertainer said.

The rallies marked Harris and Trump’s final appearances in Wisconsin ahead of Election Day — and marked the second time this week that major party nominees have held rallies in Wisconsin on the same day.

“Starting this weekend, the way to predict the winner is to toss a coin. It’s so close,” University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor emeritus Mordecai Lee told Fox News.

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The Democratic and Republican Parties’ vice presidential candidates — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, respectively — have also both toured Wisconsin, and major surrogates — including former Presidents Obama and Clinton for Harris — are in the Badger State parachuted. . Obama returns on Sunday.

Both campaigns and their aligned committees and super PACs have also flooded Wisconsin’s airwaves with TV ads in the final period leading up to Election Day next week.

Wisconsin, along with Michigan and Pennsylvania, are the three Rust Belt states that form Democrats’ so-called “blue wall.”

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For a quarter century, Democrats reliably won all three states before Trump narrowly captured them in the 2016 election over Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton to win the White House.

Four years later, in 2020, President Biden defeated all three states by razor-thin margins to put them back in the Democrats’ column and defeat Trump. In Wisconsin, Biden carried the state by just over 20,000 votes out of more than 3.2 million votes cast.

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