By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The pair enter the final stretch of the 2024 campaign as Vice President Kamala Harris heads to Michigan on Monday to focus on the economy and former President Donald Trump heads to Georgia to shore up support among religious voters. For the White House.

After a one-day stop in the swing state of Pennsylvania, where she visited a barbershop with black men and spoke about faith in a black church, Harris will tour Michigan to highlight her support for manufacturing jobs and union workers, according to a report. campaign official.

He’s also planning a rally with his running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, that will include a performance by singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers.

Trump, who held a rally in New York City on Sunday that started with a series of rude and racist statements from his supporters, is organizing two events in the Atlanta area on Monday, one being the National Faith Advisory Summit and the other a rally. is trying to win over voters in Georgia, another critical swing state.

Harris and Trump are neck-and-neck in polls in battleground states that will determine the winner of the US presidential election. Both candidates are working hard to win over the remaining undecided and independent voters in these states and get their base supporters to vote early or show up at the polls on November 5.

While Trump issued an anti-immigration message and hurled insults at the vice president, Harris cast Trump as a threat to democracy following his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election and his supporters’ resulting storming of the US Capitol in January. 6, 2021.

He will compare their economic visions on Monday.

Harris will visit Corning Inc.’s Hemlock Semiconductor facility to talk to workers and tour the assembly line, according to a campaign official, and talk about the importance of investing in manufacturing jobs. The company recently received an initial investment of up to $325 million through the Chip and Science Act, which Trump criticized and Harris helped pass.

He will also tour a labor union training facility.

Trump has argued that his administration as president has been stronger than President Joe Biden and Harris’ in managing the economy, despite massive job losses at the end of his term at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.

Although the U.S. job market is strong under the Biden-Harris administration and stock markets have reached record highs, persistently rising prices are hurting consumers on everything from food to rent.

“Are you doing better now than you were four years ago?” Trump asked the crowd at the rally on Sunday. The crowd answered: “No.”

Harris, meanwhile, has released policy proposals to lower prices and help alleviate the nation’s housing shortage, while also comparing her leadership approach to Trump, who she said will focus on taking revenge on his enemies.

“It’s full of dark language about vengeance and vengeance. And so the American people have a choice. Either that, or I’ll be there, focused, focused on my to-do list.” It’s about the American people,” he told reporters in Philadelphia on Sunday.

(Reporting by Jeff Mason and Steve Holland; Editing by Caitlin Webber and Michael Perry)