Harris and Trump focus on closing messages with rallies in Georgia, Nevada, Arizona

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00:00They are pulling out all the stops to win over undecided voters.

00:08Democratic candidate Kamala Harris is being joined by both former President Barack Obama

00:13and rock star Bruce Springsteen today.

00:16Donald Trump, meanwhile, is courting voters in Tempe, Arizona and Las Vegas.

00:20But with the election drawing ever closer, there are fewer and fewer people left to win

00:26over as Matthew Mary Karasche explains.

00:31At a town hall event outside Philadelphia, Kamala Harris honed her message to undecided

00:36voters.

00:37She reiterated that Donald Trump is unstable, unfit to serve and a threat to the nation's

00:42core principles.

00:44She also pointed repeatedly to former senior military figures from Trump's administration

00:49who have called him a fascist and claimed he spoke enviously of Adolf Hitler's Nazi generals.

00:55Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?

00:57Yes I do.

00:59Yes I do.

01:00And I also believe that the people who know him best on this subject should be trusted.

01:07With less than two weeks left before the presidential election, both Harris and Trump are trying

01:11to attract voters that can tip the balance in the extremely close contest.

01:17But rather than focusing on policy differences with each other, the two candidates have preferred

01:21to cast aspersions.

01:24In Georgia, another swing state, Trump called Harris crazy, the worst ever, loony and a

01:29low IQ individual.

01:32This election is a choice between whether we will have four more years of incompetence,

01:38failure and disaster or whether we will begin the four greatest years in the history of

01:45our country.

01:48Pollsters have found that less than 5% of the American electorate is still undecided

01:53between Harris and Trump.

01:55Both camps are focusing on younger voters, especially those that are black or Latino.

02:01The Harris campaign is also trying to persuade Republican women who are repelled by Trump.

02:07For the very latest, let's cross live now to France 24's Fraser Jackson.

02:11Fraser, you are out on the campaign trail in battleground state Pennsylvania.

02:16It looks like that state could end up going either way.

02:20What are voters telling you?

02:22It really is a true definition of a toss-up when it comes to Pennsylvania.

02:29The candidates know that.

02:30They now then are kind of changing tactics to what you would normally expect.

02:35What you would expect normally would be Kamala Harris to be places like this in Philadelphia,

02:40a blue stronghold, Donald Trump to be in his counties in the more rural parts of the state.

02:45But actually, it's the inverse because that thin margin of votes is where this state is

02:49going to come down to.

02:50So Donald Trump is now spending more time in Pennsylvania in places like Philadelphia

02:55where he's trying to win a slightly bigger section of the population, notably among Latinos

03:02and Latinas and also among black men as well.

03:06And Kamala Harris, meanwhile, is also out in the more rural parts of the state trying

03:10to shave down the margins Donald Trump gets as well.

03:13This really is the definition of a marginal election, and you can feel that when you speak

03:17to the voters.

03:18Philadelphia, like I said, a Democratic stronghold.

03:20You definitely do hear more of that Democratic message here than most other parts of the

03:25state.

03:26But when you go into other parts of the outskirts of Philadelphia and the south of Philadelphia,

03:31that's when you start to hear some differences of opinion.

03:35The swing voters that I've spoken to say that they need something more definitive from Kamala

03:39Harris.

03:40They want to know what she's going to do to make their lives better.

03:43Donald Trump polls better with these people on things like the border, on things like

03:48the economy.

03:49She needs to change the narrative and make these people feel like she is the choice for

03:53them.

03:54They also say that they want to hear something different to what she's done for the last

03:57four years with the Biden administration.

03:59She has been pushed upon this topic multiple times over the course of the last couple of

04:04weeks, notably on The View and then on a couple of different TV shows and again at the CNN

04:10Town Hall late on Wednesday evening.

04:13But so far, she hasn't really come up with a reason or a way that she will be different.

04:18She said that her experiences will make her lead differently, but she hasn't really given

04:21anything concrete.

04:22So, a couple of dodged answers aren't doing anything to assuage the concerns of those

04:26critical undecided voters which will decide this election.

04:29Fraser, as you've been speaking to us, her Republican rival Donald Trump, he's taken

04:34to the stage there intently to speak to supporters.

04:38Now, before you went to Pennsylvania, you caught up with one of America's most famous

04:44pollsters, I believe.

04:45What did he tell you about the race?

04:48Yeah, we had a briefing with Frank Luntz just a couple of days ago.

04:52He is one of the most respected and well-known pollsters here in the United States and what

04:56he said was kind of fascinating, to be honest.

04:59Again, this marginal election, we say that a lot, we say this is a toss-up, it's too

05:03close to call.

05:04Well, the quote from Frank Luntz was that anybody who calls this election is a quote

05:08idiot.

05:09He himself says that it is too close to call and says that really the states that he's

05:13looking at the most are Michigan and here in Pennsylvania where it is too difficult

05:19to make a decision and it's basically going to come down to who shows up on election day

05:23and who puts their mail-in ballots into the mailbox.

05:26A couple of points from that, he said that the issues that resonate most with low-income

05:33to middle-income people are food and fuel and for those with a slightly higher income,

05:38the middle to richer people, it's housing and health care, of course.

05:43All four of those points have been tried to be touched upon by the candidates and he also

05:48said that one of the things he thinks is going to really affect Kamala Harris' electability

05:53is her ability to divide herself away from Joe Biden and to move away from the administration

06:00that she's been a member of for the last four years.

06:02Again, something she's been having difficulty doing in the last couple of weeks.

06:07He also says that it's hard to get a reading because the focus groups that he does, he

06:11does about two of them a week, aren't precise enough to understand what's going on in those

06:15small communities where this election will be won and lost and really he was actually

06:20quite kind of pessimistic when we were talking to him.

06:23He said that all of the normal keys that we have for an election, all the normal kind

06:28of way markers don't seem to matter anymore.

06:31He said that now the perception of truth is what matters, not the truth itself.

06:35So a bit of a note of pessimism from Lansdaer.

06:38I'll leave you with this.

06:40He mentioned about the future.

06:42He said that whoever wins this election, there is going to be a societal problem that faces

06:47the winner of that election because in his poll, one third of the people that he polled

06:53said that they don't feel invested in the future of America and when you ask the 65

06:58and older, the generation who's seen most of the problems that the US has experienced

07:03over the last half century or so, 90% of them said that the US is more divided than ever.

07:09A lot to think about there, Fraser.

07:11Thank you so much for joining us.

07:12That's Fraser Jackson joining us from that key battleground state, Pennsylvania.

07:18Let's move on to Otherworld News.

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