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00:00They are pulling out all the stops to win over undecided voters.
00:08Democratic candidate Kamala Harris is being joined by both former President Barack Obama
00:13and rock star Bruce Springsteen today.
00:16Donald Trump, meanwhile, is courting voters in Tempe, Arizona and Las Vegas.
00:20But with the election drawing ever closer, there are fewer and fewer people left to win
00:26over as Matthew Mary Karasche explains.
00:31At a town hall event outside Philadelphia, Kamala Harris honed her message to undecided
00:36voters.
00:37She reiterated that Donald Trump is unstable, unfit to serve and a threat to the nation's
00:42core principles.
00:44She also pointed repeatedly to former senior military figures from Trump's administration
00:49who have called him a fascist and claimed he spoke enviously of Adolf Hitler's Nazi generals.
00:55Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?
00:57Yes I do.
00:59Yes I do.
01:00And I also believe that the people who know him best on this subject should be trusted.
01:07With less than two weeks left before the presidential election, both Harris and Trump are trying
01:11to attract voters that can tip the balance in the extremely close contest.
01:17But rather than focusing on policy differences with each other, the two candidates have preferred
01:21to cast aspersions.
01:24In Georgia, another swing state, Trump called Harris crazy, the worst ever, loony and a
01:29low IQ individual.
01:32This election is a choice between whether we will have four more years of incompetence,
01:38failure and disaster or whether we will begin the four greatest years in the history of
01:45our country.
01:48Pollsters have found that less than 5% of the American electorate is still undecided
01:53between Harris and Trump.
01:55Both camps are focusing on younger voters, especially those that are black or Latino.
02:01The Harris campaign is also trying to persuade Republican women who are repelled by Trump.
02:07For the very latest, let's cross live now to France 24's Fraser Jackson.
02:11Fraser, you are out on the campaign trail in battleground state Pennsylvania.
02:16It looks like that state could end up going either way.
02:20What are voters telling you?
02:22It really is a true definition of a toss-up when it comes to Pennsylvania.
02:29The candidates know that.
02:30They now then are kind of changing tactics to what you would normally expect.
02:35What you would expect normally would be Kamala Harris to be places like this in Philadelphia,
02:40a blue stronghold, Donald Trump to be in his counties in the more rural parts of the state.
02:45But actually, it's the inverse because that thin margin of votes is where this state is
02:49going to come down to.
02:50So Donald Trump is now spending more time in Pennsylvania in places like Philadelphia
02:55where he's trying to win a slightly bigger section of the population, notably among Latinos
03:02and Latinas and also among black men as well.
03:06And Kamala Harris, meanwhile, is also out in the more rural parts of the state trying
03:10to shave down the margins Donald Trump gets as well.
03:13This really is the definition of a marginal election, and you can feel that when you speak
03:17to the voters.
03:18Philadelphia, like I said, a Democratic stronghold.
03:20You definitely do hear more of that Democratic message here than most other parts of the
03:25state.
03:26But when you go into other parts of the outskirts of Philadelphia and the south of Philadelphia,
03:31that's when you start to hear some differences of opinion.
03:35The swing voters that I've spoken to say that they need something more definitive from Kamala
03:39Harris.
03:40They want to know what she's going to do to make their lives better.
03:43Donald Trump polls better with these people on things like the border, on things like
03:48the economy.
03:49She needs to change the narrative and make these people feel like she is the choice for
03:53them.
03:54They also say that they want to hear something different to what she's done for the last
03:57four years with the Biden administration.
03:59She has been pushed upon this topic multiple times over the course of the last couple of
04:04weeks, notably on The View and then on a couple of different TV shows and again at the CNN
04:10Town Hall late on Wednesday evening.
04:13But so far, she hasn't really come up with a reason or a way that she will be different.
04:18She said that her experiences will make her lead differently, but she hasn't really given
04:21anything concrete.
04:22So, a couple of dodged answers aren't doing anything to assuage the concerns of those
04:26critical undecided voters which will decide this election.
04:29Fraser, as you've been speaking to us, her Republican rival Donald Trump, he's taken
04:34to the stage there intently to speak to supporters.
04:38Now, before you went to Pennsylvania, you caught up with one of America's most famous
04:44pollsters, I believe.
04:45What did he tell you about the race?
04:48Yeah, we had a briefing with Frank Luntz just a couple of days ago.
04:52He is one of the most respected and well-known pollsters here in the United States and what
04:56he said was kind of fascinating, to be honest.
04:59Again, this marginal election, we say that a lot, we say this is a toss-up, it's too
05:03close to call.
05:04Well, the quote from Frank Luntz was that anybody who calls this election is a quote
05:08idiot.
05:09He himself says that it is too close to call and says that really the states that he's
05:13looking at the most are Michigan and here in Pennsylvania where it is too difficult
05:19to make a decision and it's basically going to come down to who shows up on election day
05:23and who puts their mail-in ballots into the mailbox.
05:26A couple of points from that, he said that the issues that resonate most with low-income
05:33to middle-income people are food and fuel and for those with a slightly higher income,
05:38the middle to richer people, it's housing and health care, of course.
05:43All four of those points have been tried to be touched upon by the candidates and he also
05:48said that one of the things he thinks is going to really affect Kamala Harris' electability
05:53is her ability to divide herself away from Joe Biden and to move away from the administration
06:00that she's been a member of for the last four years.
06:02Again, something she's been having difficulty doing in the last couple of weeks.
06:07He also says that it's hard to get a reading because the focus groups that he does, he
06:11does about two of them a week, aren't precise enough to understand what's going on in those
06:15small communities where this election will be won and lost and really he was actually
06:20quite kind of pessimistic when we were talking to him.
06:23He said that all of the normal keys that we have for an election, all the normal kind
06:28of way markers don't seem to matter anymore.
06:31He said that now the perception of truth is what matters, not the truth itself.
06:35So a bit of a note of pessimism from Lansdaer.
06:38I'll leave you with this.
06:40He mentioned about the future.
06:42He said that whoever wins this election, there is going to be a societal problem that faces
06:47the winner of that election because in his poll, one third of the people that he polled
06:53said that they don't feel invested in the future of America and when you ask the 65
06:58and older, the generation who's seen most of the problems that the US has experienced
07:03over the last half century or so, 90% of them said that the US is more divided than ever.
07:09A lot to think about there, Fraser.
07:11Thank you so much for joining us.
07:12That's Fraser Jackson joining us from that key battleground state, Pennsylvania.
07:18Let's move on to Otherworld News.