Harris and Trump rally in Milwaukee as they make final Wisconsin push

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), right, campaigns for Vice President Kamala Harris, left, the Democratic nominee for president, in Malvern, Pa., on Oct. 21, 2024. At his final campaign event in Arizona, former President Donald Trump on Thursday night, Oct. 31, 2024, insulted Cheney, one of his most outspoken Republican critics, and used menacing imagery to suggest she should be sent into the line of fire. [Ruth Fremson/ The New York Times]

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump converged on Milwaukee on Friday night during their final scheduled visits to Wisconsin, a battleground state where neither of them has a lead and which is considered particularly essential to a Harris victory.

With the election just three days away, Harris adopted an upbeat tone during an evening of musical performances and urged her supporters in Milwaukee, where early voting lags the balloting in other parts of the state, to "please get to it when you can."

The rally for Trump, who was returning to the site of his Republican coronation in July, had an entirely different tone. He employed fear-mongering language about immigration, repeated his 2020 election lies and lobbed insults at his political foes. He also suggested that Milwaukee's Greek-born basketball star Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is Black,...

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