North Carolina marks the election edge

MILWAUKEE: Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump headed to North Carolina on Saturday to try to clinch support in the southeastern battleground state just three days before Tuesday's US presidential election. Saturday marked the last day of early voting in North Carolina, where over 3.8 million votes have been cast, while the state's western reaches are still recovering from Hurricane Helene's deadly flooding. Harris planned appearances with rock star Jon Bon Jovi in Charlotte, the biggest city in North Carolina, which is tied with Georgia for the second-biggest prize of the swing states. Each has 16 votes in the Electoral College, where 270 are needed to secure the presidency. North Carolina backed Trump in 2020 but elected a Democratic governor on the same day, giving hope to both parties. 'We have an opportunity in this election to turn the page on a decade of Donald Trump, who has spent full time trying to have the American people point fingers at each other,' Harris said at a rally in Janesville, Wisconsin, on Friday. Trump was set to hold a rally in Gastonia, west of Charlotte, at noon before returning to the state in the evening, where he was due to speak at the 22,000-seat First Horizon Coliseum arena in Greensboro. 'This election is a choice between whether we... have four more years of gross incompetence and failure, or whether we will begin the four greatest years in the history of our country,' Trump told a crowd in Michigan on Friday. — Reuters