US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump campaigned on Saturday in the southern state of Virginia, where his Democratic rival Kamala Harris is ahead in the polls.

Just three days before the vote, Trump’s supporters packed the Salem hall to its 7,000-person capacity.

The former US president asked the crowd: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”

This was an obvious echo of the phrase used by Ronald Reagan in the closing weeks of his successful 1980 presidential campaign.

Trump also said this will be the most important election in US history.

Virginia is considered a “blue state” that Democratic presidential candidates have won since 2008. The average of the latest polls shows Harris leading the state with 49.8 percent, while Trump received 44 percent of the vote.

In the final stretch of the 2016 presidential race, Trump held rallies in Michigan and other places where his rival Hillary Clinton was ahead in the polls. This is believed to have helped him expand his support and win the election.

Trump appears aiming to repeat his success of eight years ago.

Meanwhile, Vice President Harris on Saturday called for support in battleground states Georgia and North Carolina.

Harris held a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, the state’s largest city. It was stated that more than 10,000 people participated in the campaign.

Harris has promised to listen to experts and those who disagree with her because, unlike Trump, she does not believe that people who disagree with her are the enemy. “This is what real leadership looks like,” he added.

Harris also vowed to “always put country above party and person and be a president for all Americans.”

Rock star Jon Bon Jovi also took to the stage to show his support. “Now we can move forward together, embracing what makes us different,” he said, urging voters to cast their votes.