Harris and Trump Hit Swing States as Polls Point to Photo Finish: Live Updates
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will bolt through vital swing states on Sunday, the penultimate day of campaigning before Tuesday’s election, with a new New York Times/Siena College poll showing a deadlocked race and new potential paths to victory for both candidates.
Ms. Harris’s dash through Michigan includes a morning visit to a Black church in Detroit; a barbershop in Pontiac, just outside of Detroit; and a rally at Michigan State University in East Lansing. Mr. Trump is holding a rally in the central Pennsylvania town of Lititz before heading to North Carolina and Georgia, where Ms. Harris is showing new strength.
The New York Times/Siena College survey shows Ms. Harris with slender leads in Nevada, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Georgia. Mr. Trump has a wider lead in Arizona, but the candidates are tied in Michigan and Pennsylvania. The result is a nerve-wrackingly close race that could break either way.
Ms. Harris took time off her swing state campaigning on Saturday for a brief and friendly appearance opening Saturday Night Live, which Republicans complained amounted to an in-kind contribution from NBC to her campaign. Mr. Trump, on a campaign swing in the South on Saturday, gave rambling speeches in which he tried to focus the race on immigration, the economy and transgender issues.
Here’s what else to know:
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Trump laughs at crude remark: Mr. Trump, who has been defending himself from accusations of misogyny and faces a deficit with female voters in polls, chuckled on Saturday after a man at one of his rallies shouted a crude joke implying that Ms. Harris had been a prostitute. “Just remember,” Mr. Trump said, “it’s other people saying it. It’s not me.”
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R.F.K. and fluoride: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the former independent presidential candidate and a promoter of unproven medical theories, said on Saturday that Mr. Trump would seek to remove fluoride from drinking water, potentially reversing what is widely considered one of the most important public health interventions of the past century. The American Dental Association has said that water fluoridation reduces dental decay in children and adults, and that thousands of studies have shown it is safe. Mr. Trump, who has pledged that Mr. Kennedy will be in his administration if he wins, said he would let him “go wild” on issues of health and the environment.
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Latino voters: The 2024 campaign has marked an arrival of sorts for the nation’s roughly 36 million eligible Latino voters — a group so large, geographically dispersed and politically divided that it will be crucial in deciding the election. Mr. Trump has made steady inroads with Latinos in polls, potentially threatening Ms. Harris’s path to victory. But after a Trump surrogate called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” Democrats pounced by creating advertisements and even billboards that highlighted the slight.
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