Harris vows Gaza peace, Trump tone darkens in final hours

Kathmandu: Kamala Harris has courted voters angered by the Gaza war, while Donald Trump doubled down on violent rhetoric with a comment about journalists being shot as the tense US election campaign entered its final hours.

The Democratic vice president and the Republican former president frantically blitzed several swing states as they tried to win over the last holdouts with less than 36 hours left until polls open on Election Day on Tuesday. Trump predicted a “landslide”, while Harris told a raucous rally in must-win Michigan that ‘we have momentum it’s on our side’ said Harris. The 2024 race is going down to the wire, with more key states effectively tied at this point than in any comparable election.

Over 77.6 million people have cast early votes, around half of the total ballots cast in 2020. With the clock ticking, Harris spent the day in Michigan where she risks losing the critical support of a 200,000-strong Arab-American community that has denounced US handling of the Israel-Hamas war. ‘As president, I will do everything in my power to end the war in Gaza’ said Harris.

Trump on Sunday zigzagged through Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia the three biggest swing-state prizes in the Electoral College system that awards US states influence according to their population.  He added that he “shouldn’t have left” the White House after he lost his 2020 reelection effort to Joe Biden.

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