Harris promised to end the war in Gaza and Trump vowed to win it all

Washington (AP) - The U.S. presidential election is on Tuesday (November 5) in an unprecedented race. A flurry of polls released two days before the election showed Vice President Harris, a Democrat, and his Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, in a tight race both nationally and in a handful of swing states. Still, Trump predicted he would win in a landslide, and Harris said he had momentum.

According to a national poll released Sunday by NBC News, Harris and Trump are tied at 49 percent. A final poll by ABC News and Ipsos gave Harris 49 percent support nationally, three points ahead of Trump's 46 percent. Harris leads in five of the seven swing states, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll. Still, Harris' lead in all polls is within the margin of error.

In the final moments of the countdown to the election, the two candidates continue to visit swing states and sprint hard. In Michigan Sunday, Harris urged voters to turn out and made a promise to 200,000 Arab American voters. "As president, I will do everything in my power to end the war in Gaza."

She is also trying to woo undecided voters. "The momentum is on our side, can you feel it? We have this momentum because we ran a campaign that matched the aspirations, aspirations and dreams of the American people, and because we were optimistic and excited about what we could achieve when we worked together. Because we know it is time for a new generation of leadership in America."

Trump also campaigned in the majority-Arab city of Dearborn, Michigan, over the weekend, similarly promising to end the conflict in the Middle East. In the 2020 election, Arab voters helped Biden win Michigan, but after the outbreak of the Israel-Kazakhstan conflict, Arab voters were very unhappy with the Biden administration's support for Israel.

The Trump campaign has clarified that it did not intend to target media workers

Trump spent Sunday shuttling through Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia, the three states with the most electoral votes of the seven swing states. Speaking in Pennsylvania, he again raised his profile by narrowly escaping assassination there in July. He said he now had to stand behind bulletproof glass at outdoor events, adding: "If someone is going to shoot me, they should shoot through the fake news media first, and I don't care too much about that."

The Trump campaign later clarified that Trump did not mean to suggest that it was acceptable for media workers to be targeted by gunfire, but only that journalists are also at risk and should be protected by glass shields.

Yet again, Trump claims, without evidence, that the election system, pollsters and the media are conspiring to prevent him from being elected. Trump's repeated comments have been interpreted as a sign that he is likely to challenge the election results if he loses. He has so far refused to accept defeat in 2020.

Speaking in Georgia on Sunday, Trump criticized Harris for running a campaign based on "hate and demonization" while his own was based on solutions to save the country. He directly told his supporters in North Carolina on Tuesday, We will have a landslide victory that is too big to handle.

According to the University of Florida Election Lab, more than 78 million people have voted early as of Sunday, nearly half of the total votes cast in the last election.

To avoid splitting the ballot, John F. Kennedy Jr., an independent whose name is still on the ballot in Wisconsin and Michigan but who has dropped out of the race, urged supporters Monday to vote for Trump. "Let's send President Trump back to the White House and send me to Washington so we can make America strong again, end endless wars, and protect our civil liberties," he wrote on social media platform X.

Harris spent the last day of campaigning Monday in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania, with big rallies in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia later that night. Trump also went to Pennsylvania and North Carolina on the same day, and scheduled his final rally in Michigan as he did in the past two.