Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris campaigned in the key state of Pennsylvania for the second time this week on Wednesday, this time with a coalition of Republicans supporting her over fellow party candidate Donald Trump. Ta.
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Meanwhile, President Trump continues to try to woo Hispanic voters at events on the nation’s largest Spanish-language television network.
As the campaign entered its final three weeks, Harris was campaigning in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The county is a heavily voting area of Philadelphia’s suburbs where Democrats held a narrow lead in recent presidential elections.
Harris spoke with a group of Republican supporters at the historic Washington Crossing, where General George Washington launched his troops across the Delaware River at a turning point in the Revolutionary War.
Among those on stage was former Congressman Adam Kinzinger, who said it was time to put “country over party.” Kinzinger said Trump has abandoned Republican values and is a “whiny, weak, scared to death little man.”
Pennsylvania farmers Bob and Christina Lange also spoke, saying they were lifelong Republicans who had had enough. “It’s time to turn the page on President Trump and his mess and the way he divides us,” Christina Lange said.
Next, the Democratic candidates took to the stage. Harris said the Constitution guarantees the peaceful transfer of power and is “not a relic of the past.” She said the constitution “determines whether we are a country where people can speak freely and even criticize the president without fear of being imprisoned.”
An American flag flies over a vehicle with a sticker supporting Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris as she attends a campaign event in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on October 16, 2024. Photo: Evelyn Hochstein/Reuters
Mr. Trump and Mr. Harris campaigned in Pennsylvania on Monday, with the Republican in nearby Oaks and Ms. Harris on the other side of the state in Erie County, which has been in Pennsylvania for the past two presidential elections. It was one of the most divided counties in the state.
The easiest path for Harris to reach the Electoral College victory threshold of 270 votes is to carry the three northern battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Harris campaigned in Detroit on Tuesday and was scheduled to campaign in three Wisconsin cities on Thursday.
Harris was scheduled to speak to Fox News on Wednesday as part of a series of national interviews.
President Trump was also scheduled to participate in a widely televised town hall-style event on Univision as part of his recent efforts to reach out to Hispanic voters. On Saturday, President Trump attended a Las Vegas campaign event for Latino business owners in the battleground state of Nevada.
The Univision event, recorded in Miami and scheduled to air at 10 p.m., comes as immigrants have played dual and sometimes contradictory roles in the Trump campaign. President Trump has made his bleak view of immigration central to his campaign, while also banking on increased support from Latinos to return him to the White House, arguing that immigrants “taint the blood of the nation.” ” and the recent influx of immigrants into the United States. The US-Mexico border is tantamount to an “invasion.”
Harris attended a Univision town hall in Las Vegas last week.
Beaumont reported from Des Moines, Iowa.
