Supporters of former president and Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump gather to wave pro-Trump and American flags during rush hour in Easton, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 1, 2024. (Credit: Samuel Corum/AFP)
A lot can be gleaned from the pace at which the two main candidates for the U.S. presidential election are carrying out the last stretch of their campaign tours. Democratic candidate Kamala Harris visited Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Wisconsin, all in one day, Wednesday Oct. 30, and then spent the next day in Arizona and Nevada. Her Republican rival, Donald Trump, who started the day in New Mexico, was also in both Arizona and Nevada, marking his third trip to Arizona that month.Together with Georgia and Michigan, they make up the famous "swing states" with no clear loyalty to red or blue, hence the enormous effort by both candidates turn the tides in their favor days before what promises to be a crucial and extremely close election. "This is unprecedented," says Samara Klar, professor of political science at the University of...
A lot can be gleaned from the pace at which the two main candidates for the U.S. presidential election are carrying out the last stretch of their campaign tours. Democratic candidate Kamala Harris visited Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Wisconsin, all in one day, Wednesday Oct. 30, and then spent the next day in Arizona and Nevada. Her Republican rival, Donald Trump, who started the day in New Mexico, was also in both Arizona and Nevada, marking his third trip to Arizona that month.Together with Georgia and Michigan, they make up the famous "swing states" with no clear loyalty to red or blue, hence the enormous effort by both candidates turn the tides in their favor days before what promises to be a crucial and extremely close election. "This is unprecedented," says Samara Klar, professor of political science at the University of...