Harris and Trump campaigns make final election push in last week ahead of Election Day
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump make their closing arguments as election day approaches.
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump make their closing arguments as election day approaches.
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump make their closing arguments as election day approaches.
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are making their final pitch to voters with Election Day just a little over a week away.
On Sunday, Trump pledged to defeat Harris at a hometown rally that was at times crude and vulgar.
"Kamala, you're fired. Get out, you're fired," Trump said to a roaring crowd in New York City's Madison Square Garden.
Meanwhile, some speakers, including Hollywood celebrities and comics, made lewd remarks aimed at Democrats.
"The whole (expletive) party [is] a bunch of degenerates, lowlifes, Jew-haters," radio host Sid Rosenberg said.
Others made racist remarks, forcing the Trump campaign to distance itself from at least one comment made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe.
"There's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now," Hinchcliffe said. "It's called Puerto Rico."
In the immediate aftermath of Hinchcliffe's comment, Puerto Rican celebrities, including Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, and Bad Bunny, announced their endorsements for Harris. The comment comes as polls suggest Trump is gaining support among Hispanic voters, a key demographic in battleground Pennsylvania, which has one of the largest populations of Puerto Ricans.
The Harris campaign quickly responded to the comments made at Trump's rally, calling it "nothing short of a disaster."
During the rally, Trump also proposed a tax credit for family caregivers, which would be another addition to his list of tax reduction proposals if elected.
By contrast, the Harris campaign previously laid out a plan to allow Medicare to cover home healthcare provider costs and provide vision and hearing benefits.
Meanwhile, Harris made several stops in Philadelphia on Sunday, including at a barbershop, bookstore, community center, and church. She ended her day of campaigning with a rally warning of the dire stakes in the election.
"The American people are being presented with a very serious decision, and it includes what we must understand will happen starting on Jan. 20th," Harris said. "Either you have the choice of a Donald Trump who will sit in the Oval Office, stewing, plotting revenge, retribution, writing out his enemies list or what I will be doing, which is responding to folks."
Harris is set to make her closing arguments in a Washington, D.C. rally on Tuesday.