Former President Trump wooed evangelical voters in Georgia on Wednesday as Kamala Harris headed to the Philadelphia suburbs for a CNN town hall with undecided voters.
Trump headlined an event billed as a faith town hall at a church in Zebulon, Georgia, about an hour’s drive south of Atlanta.
“The biggest problem we have today is the border, it’s the No. 1 thing,” Trump said. “What they’ve done to our country is just not describable.”
The Republican nominee planned to appear later Wednesday at a rally in an arena in Gwinnett County, north of the city.
Harris, meanwhile, was set to answer questions from undecided voters in swingy Chester County near Philadelphia on a live TV event hosted by Anderson Cooper.
The CNN event was originally planned as a town hall-style debate with Trump, but he decided not to participate in a second debate after their first clash on Sept. 10, which most viewers felt Harris won.
Trump has continued to make his pitch to his base of supporters in the closing two weeks of the campaign, heading to the small towns and rural areas where he has a commanding hold on voters, particularly white Christian conservatives and white men without a college degree.
His stops in the final days of the race reflect a traditional presidential campaign strategy of seeking to build enthusiasm and urge supporters to get out and vote, especially since early voting has already started across most of the seven battleground states.
Harris, on the other hand, is seeking to expand her appeal beyond the traditional Democratic base and has repeatedly ventured into suburbs and traditionally Republican-leaning areas in hopes of winning over voters who remain undecided.
She broke from her schedule to deliver a brief statement denouncing Trump for reportedly praising Adolf Hitler in comments recounted by his former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.
The Harris campaign hopes the Kelly bombshell may convince some voters that they simply cannot vote for Trump, but most analysts doubt it will move the political needle too far.
Meanwhile, an estimated nearly 25 million Americans have already cast their ballots, a figure that amounts to about 15% of the total turnout in 2020, when President Biden outpolled Trump by about 7 million votes, a 4.4% margin.
Polls remain nearly tied with some prediction models suggesting the narrowest of edges to Trump in some of the swing states.