Trump and Harris are both traveling to Pennsylvania in the final stretch of the campaign

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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will use their final day of campaigning to fight for votes in Pennsylvania, the most closely contested state in the presidential election, where polls continue to show the candidates in a dead heat.

The state has 19 electoral votes and has long been considered key to both candidates' path to the White House. Trump won there in his successful 2016 campaign, but four years ago lost 80,000 votes out of nearly 7 million cast.

The focus on the biggest swing state in the final hours of the campaign is a sign that both the Democratic vice president and the former Republican president are seeking every possible vote in an election that polls show will be decided by a razor-thin margin.

The Financial Times poll tracker shows that candidates are statistically tied in all seven swing states, stretching from the East Coast to the industrial Midwest to the western Sun Belt.

In the final days of the campaign, Democrats were buoyed by what they said was a significant shift in the polls in Harris' favor – including a surprising lead in a widely watched Iowa poll that showed Iowa ahead in a state that many analysts considered solid for Trump. Aides to the former president dismissed the poll as an outlier.

More than 78 million Americans have already voted early, either in person or by mail, according to the leading tracker of pre-Election Day voting at the University of Florida. At least that many are expected to show up on Election Day on Tuesday.

In her latest push, Harris will make five stops in Pennsylvania on Monday – including two large rallies in the state's largest cities, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia – while Trump will hold his rallies in Pittsburgh and Reading, a mid-sized southern city. Eastern Pennsylvania, which has a large Latino population, before the day ended with a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Michigan is another swing state that's too close to call. Trump held his last campaign rallies in Grand Rapids in 2016, when he defeated Hillary Clinton, and in 2020, when he lost re-election to Joe Biden.

Harris campaigned in Michigan on Sunday and ended the day with a rally at Michigan State University in East Lansing, where she insisted she had the wind in her sails.

“We have momentum, he is on our side. Can you feel it?” she asked the crowd of thousands. “We have momentum because our campaign captures the ambitions, aspirations and dreams of the American people because we are optimistic and excited about what we can achieve together.”

The Iowa poll and a handful of other primary polls convinced some investors to reduce their bets on a Trump victory as the dollar weakened and Treasury bonds rose on Monday.

The dollar fell 0.5 percent against a basket of major currencies, heading for its biggest daily decline since August. The euro rose 0.5 percent against the US currency to $1.09. U.S. Treasury yields, which move inversely to prices, were lower and the Mexican peso strengthened.

Harris has returned to her upbeat tone in the final stretch of her campaign, after spending much of the previous week warning about Trump's threat to democratic institutions. In her remarks on Sunday evening, she notably did not mention her Republican opponent by name.

Meanwhile, Trump has doubled down on his divisive rhetoric in the home stretch, calling Democrats “demonic,” saying he never should have left the White House when he lost to Biden in 2020 and musing that he “wouldn't care.” If he were an attacker he would have to “shoot through the fake news”.

Trump's visit to Reading on Monday could be crucial to his prospects in the state as he seeks to shore up support among Latino voters, particularly those of Puerto Rican descent, amid an ongoing controversy over a speaker at a recent Trump rally that called the U.S. territory a “floating island of trash.”

Harris — whose campaign is trying to capitalize on Trump's inflammatory statements — will also make a campaign stop in Reading on Monday and visit a local Puerto Rican restaurant with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic congresswoman of Puerto Rican descent, and Josh Shapiro. Pennsylvania's popular Democratic governor.