The heated and open confrontation between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump continues in the final hours of the campaign, as each candidate visits Pennsylvania in an attempt to win one of the most important swing states that could hold the key to the White House.
This year's US presidential election has seen a fierce competition on all levels between two opposing personalities who are about twenty years apart in age.
On the Democratic side, there is the Vice President, who replaced President Joe Biden as the party's candidate late in the campaign in July due to concerns about his age. Kamala Harris, 60, could on Tuesday become the first woman to lead the world's largest economic and military power.
On the other hand, former Republican president Donald Trump (78) has turned the tables and entered the race again after leaving the White House in 2021 at the end of a term that ended in chaos, during which he survived two impeachment mechanisms in Congress and was subsequently convicted by a court.
In addition to the fluctuations and sudden developments that the campaign has witnessed, in particular the two assassination attempts against Trump, this year's race has been characterised by all kinds of outbidding in a country that is witnessing deep divisions.
Although each candidate is confident of victory, the reality is that the competition is intense and the intentions of the voters are so close that a few tens of thousands of votes can be enough to decide the outcome of the election.
This vote gap is concentrated in seven key states where the two candidates have been touring non-stop for months, spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
The electoral vote gap is concentrated in seven key states where the two candidates have been touring non-stop for months, spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
The big prize among these seven states remains Pennsylvania, which has the largest number of electoral votes. The United States has an indirect universal suffrage system, which crowns the candidate who passes the threshold of 271 electoral votes, i.e. the majority of the Electoral College, which has 538 electoral votes.
It is therefore logical that Harris and Trump will throw their last weight behind this state on Monday, at the end of a very tense campaign that has raised many fears and concerns.
On this final tour, the former attorney general and former senator from California, born to a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, plans to visit Scranton, Biden's hometown, then Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's largest cities.
On this last stop, she will be supported by Oprah Winfrey, Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin, after being endorsed by a group of celebrities including Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Lopez and basketball star LeBron James.
Donald Trump, for his part, after holding his first campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, will head to Reading and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Monday, before concluding the final day of campaigning in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
At each stop, the wealthy businessman will undoubtedly continue to describe a country in decline, facing an invasion of millions of criminal illegal immigrants, suffering economic and moral bankruptcy, and ravaged by what he calls "enemies within".
The former president has recently ratcheted up his rhetoric, hurling insults and derogatory phrases at his rival, while Harris has called him a "fascist", suggesting that he is driven by a desire for revenge and a thirst for "unlimited power".
About 80 million Americans, including Harris herself, voted early, out of 244 million eligible voters.
The anticipation is not limited to the elections themselves, but also raises anxious questions about what will come after them, as Trump has already begun to question the integrity of the vote, and he has yet to acknowledge his defeat in the 2020 elections, inciting his supporters who stormed the Capitol building on 6 January 2021 to prevent Congress from certifying Biden's victory.
Both camps have already begun filing dozens of legal appeals and complaints, while a third of Americans fear violence after 5 November.
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