After a charged and hectic last day, Americans go to the polls

“Momentum is on our side,” Harris told a crowd that chanted back, “We will win.”

“So tonight we end as we began: with optimism, with energy, with joy,” said Harris, predicting one of the closest elections in American history.

In Allentown, Harris appealed to the city’s sizable Puerto Rican community, which was outraged by a comedian’s insults at a Trump rally last week. She later went door knocking in Reading and held a brief rally in Pittsburgh, where pop star Katy Perry played a set.

Trump led his fourth and final rally after midnight in front of a packed arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the third straight presidential election in which he used the city for his final event.

He promoted his signature issues of increasing border security while attacking the economic performance of the Biden-Harris years.

It would also likely be the last campaign rally of his career, as he has said he has no plans to run for president again if he fails to reach the high office in Tuesday’s elections.

“This is the last one,” said Trump, who estimates he has held 930 rallies since he started his first campaign in 2015.

“If we get our people out, it’s over, there’s nothing they can do about it. … To make you feel a little guilty, we can only blame you,” added Trump, who got a boost earlier in the evening with a message of support from podcaster Joe Rogan.

Gender gap

The Harris campaign says internal data shows undecided voters are skewing in their favor, and says it has seen an increase in early voting among core parts of the coalition, including young voters and voters of color.

Trump campaign officials said they were monitoring early voting results, which show more women voted than men. That’s significant considering that Harris led Trump 50% to 38% among female registered voters, according to an October Reuters/Ipsos poll, while Trump led among men 48% to 41%.

“Men must vote!” The world’s richest person Elon Musk, a prominent Trump supporter, wrote on his X social media platform.

Trump’s campaign has outsourced most of its voter work to outside groups, including a group led by Musk that focused on contacting supporters who are not reliably participating in elections, rather than undecided voters.