RALEIGH, North Carolina – A presidential election unlike any other in U.S. history enters its last full day on November 4; Donald Trump, Ms. Kamala Harris and their campaigns are scrambling to get their supporters to the polls in a contest each portrayed as an existential moment. America.

Even after the surprising blurring of events over the past few months, voters split down the middleIt is expected to determine the winner both nationally and in seven battleground states on Nov. 5, but the closeness of the contest means it could be days before a winner emerges.

Trump, a 78-year-old Republican, survived two assassination attempts. one millimeter at a timeJust weeks after a jury in New York (the city where the tabloids first catapulted him to national fame and notoriety) made him the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a felony.

Ms. Harris, 60, rocketed to the top of the Democratic Party rankings in July, three weeks after President Joe Biden, 81, delivered a disastrous debate performance that gave her the chance to become the first woman to take on the world’s most powerful job. dropped his re-election bid He is under pressure from his party.

Despite all the turmoil, there was little change in the course of the race. Polls show Ms. Harris and Trump running neck-and-neck across the country and in battleground states.

More than 77 million voters have already cast ballots, but the next two days will provide a critical test of whether Vice President Harris or Trump’s campaign is doing a better job of attracting supporters to the polls.

Both Democratic and Republican voters broke century-old records in the last two presidential elections; It’s a sign of the passion Trump inspires in both political parties.

In the final days of this campaign, both sides are flooding social media sites, TV and radio stations with final rounds of advertising campaigns, racing to knock on doors and make phone calls.

Ms. Harris’s campaign team believes the magnitude of its voter mobilization effort is making a difference, saying its volunteers knocked on hundreds of thousands of doors in each of the battleground states this weekend.

“We feel very good about where we are right now,” campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon told reporters.

The campaign says its internal data shows that undecided voters, especially women in battleground states, are moving in its favor and are seeing a surge in early voting among core parts of the coalition, including young voters and voters of color.

Trump’s campaign has its own in-house research operation, but has effectively outsourced much of the work to outside super PACs, allied political groups that can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money.

Rather than appealing to middle-of-the-road voters who might lean either way, they focused more on reaching out to “low-propensity” voters, or voters who don’t usually go to the polls.

Many people in this category are Trump supporters but are not normally reliable voters.

Trump and his team say they are smart about spending, carefully choosing the voters they want to communicate with, sending knockers to places that will make a difference.