WASHINGTON: One of the tightest US election races of modern times enters its final, two-week stretch on Tuesday, with Republican Donald Trump making a special pitch to Latino voters as Democratic rival Kamala Harris sits down for a national network interview.
Both campaigns are pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into a final push for any wavering, undecided voters who could tilt the balance in their favor, with polls consistently showing their candidates in a dead heat ahead of Election Day.
Whatever the outcome, Americans will make history on November 5: they will either elect the first woman president in the world’s leading superpower — or they will put the first convicted felon into the White House.
Polls appear to be giving Trump, who at 78 is the oldest nominee from a major party in US history, a slight edge recently — but all within the margin of error, making them little comfort for a former president making his third consecutive White House run.
Vice President Harris — who only threw herself into the race in July, when President Joe Biden made the stunning decision to drop out and endorse her instead — will give a television interview to NBC on Tuesday.
The 60-year-old, who celebrated her birthday over the weekend, will also deploy one of her party’s most popular emissaries back into the field: Barack Obama.
The former Democratic president will hold a series of rallies in Wisconsin and Michigan, two of the seven most hotly contested swing states in the election which, under the US system of indirect universal suffrage, are likely to decide the outcome. –Agencies
