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Harris rallies in Atlanta, Trump appears in North Carolina as campaigns enter final sprint
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Harris rallies in Atlanta, Trump appears in North Carolina as campaigns enter final sprint

Democratic presidential candidate and current Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to supporters at a campaign rally in Atlanta on Saturday as her race against Republican Donald Trump entered the final three days. Photo by Edward M. Pio Roda/EPA-EFE

1 of 3 | Democratic presidential candidate and current Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to supporters at a campaign rally in Atlanta on Saturday as her race against Republican Donald Trump entered the final three days. Photo by Edward M. Pio Roda/EPA-EFE

Nov. 2 (UPI) — Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris appeared Saturday at an afternoon rally in Atlanta and Republican opponent Donald Trump started the day in North Carolina as their neck-and-neck race entered its final three days.

Vice President Harris, making what could be her final stop in Georgia before Tuesday’s election in hopes of winning the crucial 16 Electoral College votes, held a star-studded rally at the Atlanta Civic Center with appearances by the director Spike Leehip-hop artist Monica and R&B star Victoria Monet.

Playing off the titles of some of his best-known films, Lee told the crowd: “Sisters and brothers, we have to ‘do the right thing’. We have to make it ‘Mo Betta!'”

“No more playing in GA! Vote for Kamala today!” Monica proclaimed in tribute to one of Georgia’s Democratic U.S. senators: Raphael Warnockwarned that Trump had shown he was unfit for president and urged rally attendees to work in recent days to get out the vote for Harris.

“I need you to tap into your inner hero,” he said. “I need to know that you are an avenger of goodness and mercy, of truth, of justice and righteousness.”

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Harris took the stage at 1:40 p.m., declaring: “We have three days left in one of the most important elections of our lifetimes, and we still have work to do…hard work is good work, and make no mistake, we will win.”

Before a crowd estimated at between 15,000 and 20,000 people, Harris urged Americans to “turn the page” on an “exhausting” decade of dealings with Trump.

“It’s time for a new generation of leaders in America,” she said, adding: “I promise you that I will listen to the experts and listen to the people who disagree with me, because unlike to Donald Trump, I don’t believe that people who I don’t agree with me are the enemy.

“He wants to put them in jail, I’ll give them a seat at the table. That’s what real leaders do. That’s what strong leaders do.”

After his appearance in Atlanta, Harris was scheduled to make a evening campaign stop in another perhaps decisive swing state with an equally prestigious event in Charlotte, North Carolina, reuniting with her actress Kerry Washingtonrock star Jon Bon Jovi and singer-songwriter Brittney Spencer.

The Republican candidate, meanwhile, began Saturday with an appearance at the Gastonia, North Carolina, municipal airport, located about 25 miles west of Charlotte, on the last day of early voting in the state.

During the rally, he repeated his false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election and criticized Harris and the president. Joe Biden about this week’s jobs report show the economy added only 12,000 jobs in October, well below analysts’ expectations.

“We cannot endure four more years of this calamity,” he said, adding: “These are figures comparable to a depression.”

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, however, blamed October’s low total on the ongoing Boeing machinists’ strike, which has accounted for nearly all of the 46,000 manufacturing job cuts, and widespread disruptions in the Southeast due to hurricanes Helene and Milton.

As he did throughout his campaign, Trump claimed without evidence that illegal immigrants were sparking a “crime wave” across the country, while focusing on stories such as that of Jocelyn Nungaray, a young 12-year-old murdered in Houston earlier this year. Two undocumented migrants from Venezuela have been charged with the girl’s murder, according to the Houston Police Department.

At Saturday’s rally, the former president played a video of the girl’s mother criticizing Harris’ positions on immigration and supporting him.

Asset was scheduled will make another appearance in the state later today, delivering remarks at a rally in Greensboro at 7:30 p.m. EDT.

Also on the campaign trail Saturday was Biden, who visited his childhood home in Scranton, Pa., for an appearance at the Carpenters Local 445 meeting hall. There, he touted his administration’s four-year record of funding infrastructure projects and supporting unions and praised Harris’ support for workers’ right to strike.

“The other guy, every picket line he sees, he wants to cross it,” Biden said of Trump, adding that he “doesn’t care about us. Just look at what his megamillionaire friends are saying about health care. They want to get rid of the Affordable Care Act.”