Where the Candidates Will Be This Week

By Adeline Von Drehle
Published On: Last updated 10/29/2024, 10:28 AM EDT

Uncertainty looms over the final full week of the 2024 campaign as Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump scramble to make last minute campaign stops in key battlegrounds, turn out their base, and win over the country’s remaining undecided voters. The race is in a dead heat, with Trump up just 0.1 point in the RCP Average.  

The candidates kicked off the week Sunday on very different notes. Harris visited a church in Philadelphia, the largest city in the country’s most populous swing state. She urged the congregation to lean on their faith in the coming days and predicted that the upcoming election will “decide the fate of our nation for generations to come.”

Meanwhile, Trump on Sunday hosted the MAGA rally to end all MAGA rallies in New York’s Madison Square Garden. Comedians, podcast hosts, and billionaires spouted populist messages from center stage as the arena teemed with confidence. Trump was preceded by over four hours of guest speakers, and himself hit a note of unity for his base.

“We are not just running against Kamala, she means nothing, she is purely a vessel,” Trump said. “We are running against something far bigger than Joe or Kamala and more powerful than them, which is a massive, vicious, crooked, radical left machine that runs today’s Democrat Party.”

On Monday the candidates and their running mates spread out across the swing states to divide and conquer. Trump delivered two addresses in Georgia while Harris hit three stops in Michigan – the final of which was accompanied by a Maggie Rogers concert, a favorite tactic of the Democrats, who have star power to spare. Both number twos hit Wisconsin on Monday: Trump’s running mate Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance attended an event in Wausau while Harris’ number two Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz delivered remarks in Manitowoc and Waukesha before joining Harris at a rally in Detroit.

On Tuesday, exactly one week before Election Day, Harris will deliver a speech at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., aiming to contrast her candidacy to that of Trump’s, who hosted his notorious “Stop the Steal” rally at the same park on Jan. 6, 2021. Viewers can expect heavy symbolism and warnings of the danger a second Trump term poses to the country. After Tuesday’s closing argument, she plans to visit North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin on Wednesday before jetting west to Nevada and Arizona on Thursday.

Trump is booked to host rallies every day this week. After leaving the Peach State on Monday, he will head to Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Wisconsin on Wednesday, Nevada on Thursday, Wisconsin again on Friday, and the semi-swing state of Virginia on Saturday. Both candidates may see changes to their schedules as the hectic week brings new intelligence.

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