Vice President Harris ended her campaign focused on persuasion, committing in ads and rally speeches to be a president for all Americans — even those who disagree with her.
Donald Trump closed his reelection effort, as ever, with a message focused on turning out his core supporters and lower-propensity voters. His rally speeches combined "low IQ" smears of his opponent with dire warnings about immigration and crime, as well as a celebration of economic tariffs. He often closed rallies with a message to supporters to get their "asses out to vote."
Both candidates spent the remaining days of their campaigns focused on appealing to voters in swing states. They've each been fighting to win over Latino voters in Pennsylvania, for example, and spent Monday, the last day of the campaign, in the Keystone State. About 580,000 Latino voters live in Pennsylvania.
The final NPR/PBS News/Marist poll shows the state of the race essentially unchanged, a statistical dead-heat.
A regular part of Harris' rally speeches was a line noting that while Trump has an "enemies" list, she has a "to-do list" of policies to improve the lives of the American people, from expanding home-care options for seniors to measures aimed at increasing the stock of available housing.
And while Trump occasionally talks about policy during rallies, he devotes a lot of time to his perceived enemies. During a Halloween campaign event in Arizona, Trump called former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney a "radical war hawk" and said "let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face."
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