Election 2024: Candidates are making their final cases

To the relief of many, this election year is winding down and voters will have their say.

With only hours remaining in the 2024 election year, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are pitching rival agendas that each insist is what Americans want.

Trump has four stops on Monday in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan. Ms. Harris plans to make her final pitch to voters in Pennsylvania as part of a full day in the state, where 19 electoral votes are up for grabs.

She will start the day in Allentown before traveling to Pittsburgh. She will cap off the evening with a concert and rally in Philadelphia featuring Lady Gaga, The Roots and Ricky Martin. Oprah Winfrey will also take the stage in Philadelphia to boost Ms. Harris.

Her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will close out Monday in Detroit, hosting a concert by Jon Bon Jovi.

Over the weekend, Ms. Harris relied on Hollywood stars to help make her case, holding two star-studded rallies in swing states and appearing on “Saturday Night Live.”

A final slate of polls from The New York Times and Siena College released Sunday show that Vice President Kamala Harris appears to have a slight lead in enough states to win the Electoral College.

The polls had Harris ahead in Nevada, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Georgia. Former President Donald Trump and Harris were tied in Pennsylvania and Michigan while Trump was ahead in Arizona, though every result was within the margin of error. Harris would have at least 274 electoral votes, enough to take the White House, if those results were realized after Election Day.

The narrow margin stands in stark contrast to a Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll released late Saturday that showed Harris up by 3% in Iowa, a state that was considered safe for Trump.

The polls were conducted with likely voters between Oct. 24-Nov. 2 and surveyed 7,879 likely voters across the battleground states with a margin of error of ±3.5% in each state.