Francesca Chambers
Zac Anderson
USA TODAY
Sept 1, 2024
WASHINGTON – A furious final sprint in this year’s historic presidential election will begin on Labor Day, as the two major parties’ campaigns dig in for a pitched battle in a handful of swing states that will determine the outcome.
After a shocking series of events, which began with a historically early general election debate at the end of June and ended with the sitting president dropping out of the race in late July, the contest between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris is coming into focus.
Harris is casting herself as a forward-looking consensus builder, while Trump tries to portray her as extremely liberal. The ex-president has also launched a bevy of insults at Harris and assailed her for flip-flopping on fracking and border security, even as he has reversed himself on a number of issues in the campaign, including immigration visas, cryptocurrency, electric vehicles, banning TikTok and Florida’s abortion rights ballot initiative.
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