By Nikhila Natarajan New York, Nov 2 : On the final day of campaigning before the US presidential election, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are pitching their tent in all-important Pennsylvania, shaping up to be one of the biggest prizes of 2020. Pennsylvania delivers 20 electoral votes in the race to 270.
Biden and Harris — along with their spouses, Jill Biden and Doug Emhoff — will hold events in “all four corners” of Penn State on Monday.
Donald Trump, in a late stage gambit, has seized on fracking as a wedge issue in Pennsylvania, hoping to land a late surge of white voters who helped him to an upset victory in 2016. Trump describes Biden’s clean energy plan “an economic death sentence for Pennsylvania”.
Should the Biden ticket win, Kamala Harris will make history as the first Indian and Black American woman Vice President of the United States. She is already the first woman of colour ever on a major party’s presidential ticket.
Surrounded by the unmistakable aura of a historic campaign, the Harris candidacy has had some remarkable moments since August.
First came Harris’ introduction to America, during the Democratic National Convention. There, Harris framed the election as race that hinges, among other things, on the fighting spirit that her mother taught her.
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