Harris-Trump showdown: Vice president picks up the pace on trail, makes pitch to progressives

ANN ARBOR, MI - For a 2nd consecutive day, Vice President Kamala Harris made a trio of stops successful a cardinal battleground authorities arsenic nan timepiece quickly ticks towards Election Day successful her title against former President Donald Trump.

One time aft campaigning successful Philadelphia, plaything authorities Pennsylvania's largest city, the vice president made 3 stops successful Michigan, different crucially contested Rust Belt battleground.

With Harris and Trump locked successful a margin-of-error title successful some nan nationalist and plaything authorities polls and 8 days to spell until Election Day, Harris is kicking disconnected a fast-paced last week of campaigning.

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Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and her moving mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, depart aft speaking during a run rally astatine Burns Park successful Ann Arbor, Michigan, connected Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

For nan first clip successful 2 months, nan vice president teamed up astatine a ample rally pinch her moving mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, arsenic they said successful beforehand of what their run said was a crowd of astir 21,000 gathered connected a brisk autumn evening.

On nan eve of what is being touted arsenic her closing statement successful an reside successful nan nation's capital, Harris gave a preview, saying "we person an opportunity to move nan page [from Trump] and floor plan a caller and joyful measurement forward."

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The vice president, who has spent parts of nan past mates of weeks courting Republican voters disaffected pinch Trump, interjected into her Monday nighttime reside appeals to nan progressive guidelines of nan Democratic Party.

She spotlighted that wellness attraction security "should beryllium a right, and not conscionable a privilege for those who tin spend it."

Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks astatine a run arena successful Burns Park connected Monday, Oct. 28, 2024 successful Ann Arbor, Michigan. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

When interrupted by demonstrators protesting U.S. support for Israel successful its warfare pinch Hamas successful Gaza, she responded "I perceive you connected nan taxable of Gaza."

"We each want this warfare to extremity arsenic soon arsenic imaginable and to get nan hostages out," nan vice president said. "I will do everything successful my powerfulness to make it so."

Ann Abor, a Democratic-dominated metropolis that is besides location to Michigan's flagship authorities university, has besides seen plentifulness of protests complete nan warfare successful Gaza.

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Walz, speaking earlier Harris, made a passionate transportation connected weapon violence, emphasizing that state includes being "free to nonstop your kids to schoolhouse without them being changeable dormant successful nan halls."

"I'll return nary crap connected this. I cognize guns, I'm a veteran. I'm a hunter. Kamala and I are some weapon owners. We cognize that you tin uphold nan Second Amendment, but besides uphold our first work - protecting our children," nan politician added.

Democratic vice statesmanlike nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during a run rally astatine Burns Park successful Ann Arbor, Michigan, connected Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Harris, aft delivering her closing reside connected Tuesday, returns to nan battleground states connected Wednesday, pinch stops successful North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Those 3 states, along pinch Michigan, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, had razor-thin margins that decided President Biden's 2020 White House triumph complete Trump. Additionally, nan 7 states are apt to find if Trump aliases Harris wins this year.

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Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are besides nan 3 Rust Belt states that dress up nan Democrats' alleged "Blue Wall."

The statement reliably won each 3 states for a quarter-century earlier Trump narrowly captured them successful nan 2016 predetermination to triumph nan White House.

Four years later, successful 2020, Biden carried each 3 states by razor-thin margins to put them backmost successful nan Democrats' file and conclusion Trump.

Both nan Democratic and Republican statesmanlike nominees, arsenic good arsenic their moving mates, person made repeated stops successful nan 3 states this summertime and autumn.

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