MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump held competing rallies just a few miles apart on the same Friday night in the battleground state of Wisconsin's largest city.
With four days left until Election Day, the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates have made their final stop in Wisconsin, and nearly all of the latest polls show a close race between the two candidates.
“We have four days to get this done. Four days. No one can sit idly by,” the vice president told supporters. “I don’t judge those who haven’t voted yet, but please vote while you can.”
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Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to address a campaign rally at the Wisconsin State Fair Expo on Friday, November 1, 2024 in West Allis, Wisconsin (AP Photo/Jacqueline Martin) (AP Photo/Jacqueline Martin)
More than 12,000 people packed into the Wisconsin State Fair Park Exhibition Center in West Allis, just meters from the Milwaukee city limits, according to the Harris campaign.
Mr. Trump held court at Milwaukee's Fiserv Forum, the same venue where he accepted the party's presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in July, telling supporters, “I want your vote.” spoke.
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Popular rapper and songwriter Cardi B spoke before Harris at the rally, saying she had no intention of voting for president until Harris replaces President Biden on the Democratic ticket in 2024 in July. No, he told the crowd.
“I had no intention of voting this year. … But when Kamala Harris joined the race, she completely changed her mind,” the entertainer said.
Former Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Friday, November 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Molly Gash) (AP Photo/Molly Gash)
The rally marked Harris and Trump's final appearance in Wisconsin before Election Day, and the second time this week that major party candidates have held rallies in the state on the same day. .
“As of this weekend, the only way to predict the winner is to flip a coin. It's close,” Mordecai Lee, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, told Fox News.
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Democratic and Republican vice presidential candidates, respectively, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, also crisscrossed Wisconsin, including former President Barack Obama and former President Harris Harris. Key agents parachuted into the Badger State. . Mr. Obama returns home on Sunday.
Both campaigns and their affiliated committees and super PACs also flooded Wisconsin's airwaves with television ads in the run-up to next week's Election Day.
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris will hold her last rally in Wisconsin before Election Day in Milwaukee on November 1, 2024 (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
Wisconsin, along with Michigan and Pennsylvania, are three Rust Belt states that make up the Democratic Party's so-called “blue wall.”
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Democrats held steady victories in all three states for a quarter of a century, until Mr. Trump narrowly defeated Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton to win the White House in the 2016 election.
Four years later, in 2020, President Biden narrowly won three states, returning them to the Democratic Party column and defeating President Trump. In Wisconsin, Biden led the state by just over 20,000 votes out of more than 3.2 million cast.
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