Harris and Trump hold rallies in battleground Milwaukee | News about the 2024 US election

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her rival, former President Donald Trump, held dueling rallies just miles apart in the city of Milwaukee – capping a day of events that served as one of the final support efforts before the Nov. 5 election.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin's largest city, is a vote-rich area for Democrats, but Republicans are concentrated in the surrounding conservative suburbs. Trump won the state in 2016 but lost in 2020.

“We know who Donald Trump is,” Harris said Friday evening. “This is not someone thinking about how to improve their life. This is someone who is increasingly unstable and obsessed with revenge. He is filled with resentment and the man is seeking uncontrolled power.”

Less than 10 miles away in another part of the city, Trump said: “My answer to Joe and Kamala is simple: You can't lead America if you don't love America, and you can't be president if you hate that.” American people.”

Democrats know they need to win voters in Milwaukee, which also has the state's largest black population. Harris hopes to repeat and surpass the 2020 turnout in the city, which voted 79 percent for Biden that year.

Harris' campaign galvanized the youth audience with performances from musical artists GloRilla, Flo Milli, MC Lyte, The Isley Brothers and DJ Gemini Gilly.

Harris was also supported by rapper Cardi B. “Did you hear what Donny Trump said the other day?” she said, referring to Trump’s promise to protect women “whether they like it or not.”

“Donny, don’t,” she said. “Please.”

I have to turn the page

Harris' message, as with all of her rallies, is that Americans are exhausted by Trump's negative presence on the political scene and that it is time to move forward.

“We have an opportunity to finally put behind us a decade in which Donald Trump tried to divide us and make us fear each other. We’re done with this, we’re exhausted by this, we’re turning the tide,” she said.

Harris also emphasized the need to find common ground and compromise in the country's deeply divided politics.

“Unlike Donald Trump, I don’t believe that people who disagree with me are the enemy,” she said.

“He wants to put her in prison. I will give them a seat at the table.”

Everyone wants a job

Trump told his supporters that he had asked his staff not to speculate about who might work for him if he wins the election.

“I don’t want to talk about people. Firstly, I want to win. We don't want to talk about people. Don't tell me about people. “Everyone wants a job,” he said

“Remember – there was a moment where they said, 'Oh, nobody wants to work for Trump.' He's too difficult. Let me tell you a little secret: you died to work for us. Do you know why? Because they all want to do this glamor deal. They want to be in this wonderful administration.”

Trump's rallies have taken on a nostalgic tone in the final week before the election, and Friday was no exception.

At an afternoon rally in Warren, Michigan, he told supporters that the campaign left him feeling “re-energized.”

“This was the thrill of a lifetime for me, for you and everyone else,” he said.

Earlier Friday, Harris left Las Vegas for Wisconsin, where she spoke at a union hall in Janesville and then held an event in Little Chute before making a third stop in Milwaukee's West Allis neighborhood.