By Nandita Bose and James Oliphant
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) -Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris flew unexpectedly to New York on Saturday to seem on the “Saturday Evening Dwell” TV program simply three days earlier than her election showdown with Republican Donald Trump.
Harris’ marketing campaign declined to remark, however two sources stated she would seem on the favored comedy present, which airs at 11:30 p.m. ET (0330 GMT).
A “Saturday Evening Dwell” look would add a shock jolt forward of the presidential election on Tuesday.
The long-running present individually hosted each Democratic candidate Barack Obama and Republican candidate John McCain in 2008, and featured Trump in 2004, lengthy earlier than he entered politics.
Earlier on Saturday, Harris was greeted by an uncommon sight as she arrived for a rally in North Carolina: Trump’s red-white-and-blue airplane.
As Harris descended from the vice-presidential airplane Air Drive Two on the Charlotte airport, Trump’s personal Boeing (NYSE:) 757 was parked on the tarmac close by.
The shut encounter was a dramatic illustration of how the 2 candidates are specializing in a handful of states the place Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election will in the end be gained or misplaced.
It was the fourth day in a row that the candidates campaigned in the identical state. Solely seven states, together with North Carolina, are seen as really aggressive.
Harris was arriving in Charlotte for a rally with rock star Bon Jovi. Trump campaigned in suburban Gastonia just a few hours earlier, and it was not clear whether or not he was on his airplane when Harris arrived.
Trump and Harris caught to acquainted themes at their appearances.
Trump stated he would deport tens of millions of immigrants if elected and warned that if Harris wins, “Each city in America could be was a squalid, harmful refugee camp.”
Campaigning in Atlanta, Harris stated Trump would abuse his energy if he returns to the White Home.
“That is somebody who’s more and more unstable, obsessive about revenge, consumed with grievance, and the person is out for unchecked energy,” she stated.
Greater than 72 million Individuals have already forged ballots, based on the Election Lab on the College of Florida, wanting 2020’s file early-voting tempo throughout COVID-19, however nonetheless indicating a excessive stage of voter enthusiasm.
Some 4 million votes have already been forged in North Carolina. The state’s western counties that have been devastated by Hurricane Helene gave the impression to be voting at roughly the identical price as the remainder of the state, based on Catawba School political science professor Michael Bitzer.
Trump criticized the federal authorities’s response to the catastrophe and repeated his false declare that support had been diverted from the state to assist immigrants getting into the nation.
‘BEAUTIFUL WHITE SKIN’
At a later rally in Salem, Virginia, a state that analysts say he’s unlikely to win, Trump stated he ran for workplace to rescue the economic system from “obliteration,” although it could have been simpler to loosen up at one in all his oceanfront resorts.
“I did not have to be right here as we speak,” he stated. “I may have been standing on that seaside, my stunning white pores and skin getting good and being smacked, being smacked within the face by a wave loaded up with salt water.”
Trump was joined on stage by ladies from an area school swim staff who’ve objected to competing towards transgender athletes. A few of Trump’s TV advertisements have sought to capitalize on transgender controversies.
Harris and Trump have very completely different insurance policies on main points together with assist for Ukraine and NATO, abortion rights, immigration, taxes, democratic rules and tariffs, which replicate the schisms between the Democratic and Republican events.
