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Vice President Harris rallied voters successful Philadelphia connected Sunday arsenic the contention betwixt her and erstwhile President Trump grows tighter 9 days retired from Election Day.
Harris mostly stuck to her stump code successful astir 15 infinitesimal remarks from downtown Philadelphia, urging voters successful battleground Pennsylvania to caput to the polls.
“There is excessively overmuch connected the line, and we indispensable not aftermath up the time aft the predetermination and person immoderate regrets astir what we could person done successful these adjacent 9 days,” Harris told the crowd.
Harris gave a peculiar shoutout to young voters, successful particular, praising them for their governmental activism connected climate, weapon power and termination access.
“Is Gen Z successful the house?” the vice president said. “You are rightly impatient for change. You are rightly impatient. You, who person lone known the clime situation — you are leaders successful what we request to bash to support our planet.”
“You, who grew up with progressive shooter drills,” she continued. “You, who close present cognize less rights than your mothers and grandmothers, recognize the value of warring for the close of a pistillate to marque decisions astir her ain assemblage and not person her authorities archer her what to do.”
Harris spent Sunday campaigning passim the city, which volition play a captious relation successful Democratic turnout wrong the battleground state. Earlier successful the day, Harris visited West Philadelphia wherever she spoke astatine the Church of Christian Compassion, a Black religion successful the neighborhood, and visited a section barbershop. The vice president besides made stops astatine a bookstore specializing successful Black history, and a Puerto Rican restaurant.
“Philadelphia is simply a precise important portion of our way to victory,” Harris told reporters. “It’s the crushed I person been spending clip here.”
Pennsylvania volition apt play a consequential relation successful the predetermination with its 19 Electoral College votes. The Hill/Decision Desk HQ mean shows a razor bladed race, with Trump narrowly starring nationally, 48.5 percent to 48.3 percent.
While Harris spent Sunday successful Philadelphia, Trump was preparing to stump astatine Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden. The lawsuit is expected to gully thousands of supporters successful heavy bluish New York City, including a fig of Republican lawmakers. While New York City is considered a Democratic stronghold, it is location to a monolithic media marketplace and successful comparatively adjacent proximity to a fistful of competitory House races.
