Harris and Trump zero in on key swing state as US election race heats up
Al Jazeera
Democratic and Republican presidential candidates are campaigning in battleground state of Pennsylvania this weekend.
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are holding campaign events in the key US swing state of Pennsylvania this weekend, as the race between the United States presidential candidates heats up before November’s election.
Trump will hold a rally in the small town of Wilkes-Barre on Saturday while Harris is expected to make several stops on a bus tour around the city of Pittsburgh on Sunday.
The focus on Pennsylvania — one of several battleground states expected to be critical in deciding the election — comes as recent polling shows a close fight between the Republican and Democratic candidates in key parts of the country.
A New York Times/Siena College poll on Saturday showed that Harris, who launched her campaign after President Joe Biden dropped his re-election bid last month, had gained ground in four states that Trump had looked set to win comfortably over Biden.
The US vice president and Democratic nominee was leading Trump among likely voters in Arizona and North Carolina, the poll showed, and had narrowed the former Republican president’s lead in Georgia and Nevada.
