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On the eve of the 2024 presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump held final rallies in Pennsylvania, a pivotal battleground state. Fox News reported that Harris emphasized voter turnout at events in Harrisburg, Allentown, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia, urging supporters not to sit out the election. Trump, rallying in Lititz and Reading, also called on Pennsylvanians to vote, framing the state as crucial to his potential victory. Pennsylvania, with 19 electoral votes, is touted as a decisive state that could tip the election.

Journalist Ryan Girdusky highlighted these positive early voting numbers from the Secretary of State’s office:

Both campaigns have focused heavily on the state, with extensive advertising and voter outreach efforts. It’s also entirely possible that Pennsylvania, like Florida once was, is no longer a bellwether state and just a reliable red state.

Polls show Harris and Trump in a tight race, each with 48% of likely voters. Trump reiterated that even past wins shouldn’t be taken for granted:

"We've had a lot of luck in North Carolina. We won it twice," Trump said Sunday in Kinston. "We are going to win North Carolina."

A day earlier, at another North Carolina rally, he warned his supporters that "when you’re winning by a lot, you can still lose by a little."

Polls indicate a margin-of-error race in North Carolina, the only one of the seven key battlegrounds that Trump narrowly carried over Biden four years ago. A source in the former president's political orbit confided to Fox News that there were concerns of a possible setback in the Tar Heel state.

While Harris closes out her campaign with a late night rally in Philadelphia, Trump will be in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for his final rally. For Trump, it is tradition. He closed out his 2016 and 2020 campaigns in the southwestern Michigan city.

Now we wait.