{"id":25105,"date":"2024-11-03T09:26:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T09:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=25105"},"modified":"2024-11-03T09:26:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T09:26:56","slug":"harris-and-donald-drum-up-support-on-the-final-weekend-of-us-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/11\/harris-and-donald-drum-up-support-on-the-final-weekend-of-us-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris and Donald drum up support on the final weekend of US elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211;\u00a0Kamala Harris and Donald Trump criss-crossed the United States on Saturday as both candidates tried to drum up support on the final weekend before the 5 November presidential election. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both candidates began the day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, before <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Democratic<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> nominee Harris departed for Atlanta and then Charlotte, North Carolina. Trump, the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Republican<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> nominee, also travelled to North Carolina, before heading to a rally in Virginia, reported Guardian.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Almost 70 million Americans have already voted in the historic US election that comes to a head on Tuesday, prompting furious arguments over <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">what early voting trends might mean<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Trump and Harris prepare for their final showdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Georgia judge <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">rejected a Republican lawsuit<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> trying to block counties from opening election offices on Saturday and Sunday to let voters hand in their mail ballots in person. The lawsuit only targeted Fulton county, a Democratic stronghold. Trump falsely blamed Fulton county workers for his loss of the 2020 election in Georgia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harris made a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, playing herself as the mirror-image double of Maya Rudolph\u2019s version of her. \u201cIt is nice to see you Kamala,\u201d Harris told Rudolph, \u201cand I\u2019m just here to remind you, you got this.\u201d In sync, the two said supporters needed to \u201cKeep Kamala and carry-on-ala\u201d, declared that they shared each other\u2019s \u201cbelief in the promise of America\u201d, and delivered the signature \u201cLive from New York it\u2019s Saturday night!\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harris <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">struck a contrast between her work as a prosecutor and a Trump campaign \u201cobsessed with revenge and consumed with grievance\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on Saturday in Atlanta. \u201cIn less than 90 days it\u2019s either going to be him or me in the Oval Office,\u201d Harris said. The vice-president filled the fields at the Atlanta Civic Center, attracting thousands on little notice in the crucial swing state of Georgia, which Joe Biden won in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both candidates began the day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, before Democratic nominee Harris departed for Atlanta and then Charlotte, North Carolina. Trump, the Republican nominee, also travelled to North Carolina, before heading to a rally in Virginia, reported Guardian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":25107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,976,982,234,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-politics","category-international","category-us","category-headline"],"views":51,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25112,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25105\/revisions\/25112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}