WOMEN VOTERS KEY TARGET
For Harris, a key electorate is women voters – partly because of her own historic role, but mostly due to widespread fury over the ruling by Trump-appointed justices on the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade, ending a decades-long constitutional right to abortion.
“Donald Trump’s not done. He will ban abortion nationwide. He wants to restrict access to birth control, put IVF treatments at risk and … force states to monitor women’s pregnancies,” Harris said in Atlanta, Georgia.
She painted Trump as “increasingly unstable, obsessed with revenge” and “out for unchecked power”.
“We have an opportunity in this election to finally turn the page on a decade of Donald Trump who spends full time trying to keep us divided and afraid of each other,” she said.
Trump’s rhetoric has become ever-darker as Election Day approaches.
In Gastonia, North Carolina, he conjured an apocalyptic vision where Harris would spark “a 1929-style economic depression” and “World War III”.
And he doubled down on his central campaign message that illegal immigration is swamping the country with violent criminals, telling women voters that he would protect them.
“When you’re home, in your house alone, and you have this monster that got out of prison, he’s got, you know, six charges of murdering six different people, I think you’d rather have Trump,” he said.
The candidates’ frantic schedules will run right into Monday, culminating with late-night rallies – in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for Trump and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Harris.
