Both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris worked to win over voters in the last full day before polls open Tuesday, and Spectrum News takes a look into what rights voters have at polling places.
Harris and Trump making furious last-day pushes before Election Day
A presidential campaign that has careened through a felony trial, an incumbent president being pushed off the ticket and multiple assassination attempts comes down to a final push across a handful of states on the eve of Election Day.
Vice President Kamala Harris spent all of Monday in Pennsylvania, which, with 19 electoral votes, offers the largest prize among the states expected to determine the Electoral College outcome. She visited working-class areas including Allentown and will end with a late-night Philadelphia rally that includes Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey.
Former President Donald Trump planned four rallies in three states Monday, beginning in Raleigh, N.C., and stopping twice in Pennsylvania, with events in Reading and Pittsburgh. He will end his campaign the way he ended the first two, with a late Monday night event in Grand Rapids, Mich.
About 77 million Americans already have voted early, but Harris and Trump are pushing to turn out many millions more supporters Tuesday. Either result on Election Day will yield a historic outcome.
A Trump victory would make him the first incoming president to have been indicted and convicted of a felony, after his hush-money trial in New York. And he will gain the power to end other federal investigations pending against him. Trump would also become the second president in history to win non-consecutive White House terms, after Grover Cleveland in the late 19th century.
Harris is vying to become the first woman, first Black woman and first person of South Asian descent to reach the Oval Office, four years after she broke the same barriers in national office by becoming President Joe Biden's second in command.
The vice president ascended to the top of the Democratic ticket after Biden's disastrous performance in a June debate set into motion his withdrawing from the race.
That was just one of a series of convulsions that have hit this year's campaigns on both sides of the aisle.
Trump survived a would-be assassin's bullet by millimeters at a rally in Butler, Pa. His Secret Service detail foiled a second attempt in September when a gunman had set up a rifle as Trump golfed at one of his courses in Florida.
Harris, 60, has played down the historic nature of her candidacy, which materialized only after the 81-year-old president ended his reelection bid.
Instead, Harris has pitched herself as a generational change, emphasized her support for abortion rights after the Supreme Court's 2022 decision ending the constitutional right to abortion services, and regularly noted the former president's role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Assembling a coalition ranging from progressives such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York to Republican former Vice President Dick Cheney, Harris has called Trump a threat to democracy and late in the campaign even embraced the critique that Trump is accurately described as a "fascist."
What you can — and can't — do at polls on Election Day
With Election Day coming up tomorrow, it's important to remember the rights you have, as well as the rules to follow, at polling sites.
Teresa Potter, president of the League of Women Voters for Hillsborough and Pasco Counties, joined Spectrum News to discuss what you can and cannot do on Election Day.
For example, what happens if the polls close and you're still in line? (The answer is you still get to vote.)
She also talks about election officials and their roles at polling sites.
Use the video above to watch the segment.