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Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris marked her first visit to the Susquehanna Valley this election season with a rally at the Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg on Wednesday afternoon.
Thousands of rallygoers filled the Farm Show Complex to hear from Harris as well as State Representative Patty Kim and Lt. Gov. Austin Davis.
Harris is in the midst of a last-minute battleground blitz across swing states — she rallied in North Carolina Wednesday morning before stopping in Harrisburg and flew to Wisconsin after. Thursday, she is slated to appear in Las Vegas with singer and actress Jennifer Lopez.
Harris visited the Farm Show just one day after delivering her closing message in a nationally televised address Tuesday night. She criticized Republican nominee Donald Trump for divisive rhetoric and called him “unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance and out for unchecked power.”
“We know we have an opportunity in this election to turn the page on a decade of Donald Trump,” Harris said.
Harris told voters that her presidency would focus on preserving freedoms and lowering the cost of living for working-class families.
“At the top of my list is bringing down your cost of living, “ Harris said “That will be my focus every day.”
In rallies across the country, Harris has claimed that Trump’s economic policy would “cost the average family $4,000 more per year. This is a simplified claim on a complex topic, but PolitiFact has deemed this "Half True." Trump has proposed a wide range of tariffs, but Harris’ estimate may be exaggerated.
As has become standard at many Harris rallies, the vice president was interrupted about halfway through her speech by pro-Palestinian protestors, who were quickly shouted down by rallygoers and removed from the venue.
“Ours is about a fight for democracy and your right to be heard,” Harris said in response. “Unlike Donald Trump, I don’t believe people who disagree with me are the enemy from within.”
Both campaigns are leaving no stone unturned across the Commonwealth as neither has been able to pull ahead outside the margin of error in national polls. As of Oct. 28, 538 shows Trump ahead in an average of national polls by less than half a point – 47.9 percent to Harris’ 47.5. Even a tenth of a percent could make the difference as President Joe Biden won Pennsylvania by just 1.2% and 80,000 votes in 2020.
“Today is about getting every single Harris supporter out to the polls on Tuesday,” State Rep. Patty Kim said.
Harris will reportedly make one final stop in Pennsylvania with a pre-Election Day rally on the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum on Monday night, per local outlets.
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