Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are pushing for votes at the last second

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump raced through key battleground states in the final hours of the campaign in a last-ditch effort to secure votes as Americans prepared to go to the polls on Tuesday in one of the closest presidential elections in modern history .

The US vice president said America was ready for a “new beginning” and claimed the momentum was with her as she held her final rally outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania, the biggest prize among swing states deciding the election will decide.

“So, America, that’s what matters. One more day, just one more day in the most consequential election of our lives. And the momentum is on our side,” Harris said.

Trump also campaigned in Pennsylvania, promising his supporters in Pittsburgh a new “golden age” for the country if he wins a second term.

The Republican former president later held his final rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with a lengthy speech that ended after 2 a.m.

“This is the last one,” he said of the event, urging supporters to vote. “If we take our people out, it's over, there's nothing they can do about it. . . To make you feel a little guilty, we would just blame you.”

Nationally, Harris has a 1.5 percentage point lead over Trump, according to the Financial Times poll tracker. But among the swing states, the vice president only has a narrow lead in Michigan and Wisconsin, while Nevada is tied and Trump has a small lead in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia and Arizona.

The U.S. dollar weakened against a basket of currencies that included the pound and Japanese yen on Tuesday morning. Futures trading suggested the 10-year Treasury yield, which recently moved in line with Trump's election prospects, would fall for a second day.

Senior Harris campaign officials said they were on track to win a close contest and expected undecided voters to come to their side, but also acknowledged it could be days before a final result .

“We are very focused on remaining calm and confident during this time,” Jen O'Malley Dillon, Harris' campaign manager, told reporters Monday afternoon.

In Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley region, which has a large Puerto Rican community, Harris sought to shore up her support among Latinos after a comedian made offensive comments about the Caribbean island and the U.S. at a Trump rally in New York last month. gave up territory.

“I don’t believe that people who disagree with me are the enemy. . . “We are fighting for democracy right now,” she said.

Harris was supported by New York progressive House Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and rapper Fat Joe, who attended the rally and urged Latinos to support Harris. “Where is yours orgullo? Where is your pride?” said the rapper.

After days of vitriolic and angry campaign rallies that focused more on his grievances against his political opponents and bizarre vows to “protect” women, Trump struggled to refocus his message on the economy and immigration.

In Reading, Pennsylvania, Trump spoke to female supporters who held pink signs that read “Women for Trump.”

In Pittsburgh, former Fox News host Megyn Kelly, with whom Trump openly feuded several years ago, appeared at his rally to support him, while Joe Rogan, the podcaster with a large male following, also announced his support.

“A vote for Trump means your groceries will be cheaper”. . Your paychecks will be bigger, your streets will be safer and cleaner, your communities will be wealthier and your future will be brighter than ever,” Trump told the crowd in Pittsburgh.

Trump's efforts to convey a more positive message to voters were undermined when JD Vance, his vice president, called Harris nonsense earlier in the day during a campaign stop in Atlanta, Georgia.

“In two days we will be taking out the trash in Washington, DC, and the name of the trash is Kamala Harris,” JD Vance said.

In Grand Rapids, Trump called Harris a “very low IQ person” and a “radical left-wing lunatic who destroyed San Francisco.”

Meanwhile, just after midnight local time in the small hamlet of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, the first election results were released, with Trump winning three votes and Harris winning three votes.

Some people who attended Trump's rally in Pittsburgh had traveled long distances. Renée Hughes, a retiree, flew from Sitges, Spain, to vote in her hometown and attend the rally.

“We have to get our land back,” she said. “We have become an embarrassment. Trump is a real person. He gets us, the normal people, not the elites.”

However, Holly Gallogly, a retired teacher from Pittsburgh, said, “I voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020, but in the last few months I've become undecided as I struggle with the hateful rhetoric.”