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From The Guardian's Today In Focus, this is US Election Extra with me, Lucy Hough.Today, two duelling rallies in the city of Las Vegas as the Harris and Trump campaigns caught the Latino vote.
At her glitzy campaign event, Kamala Harris gets an A-list endorsement from JLO.
We are on the brink of an election that demands a choice.A choice between backwards and forwards.A choice between the past and the future.A choice between divided and united.
At Donald Trump's rival rally in a Las Vegas suburb, it's very much a man's world.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.we have.And he's going to work on health and women's health and all of the different reasons, because we're not really a wealthy or a healthy country.We're not.
Plus, with 65 million early votes already cast, we'll be looking at the polls ahead of the final weekend of campaigning. Well, I'm joined by David Smith, The Guardian's Washington DC Bureau Chief.
And David, you've just got off a plane from Las Vegas, where you've been at duelling rallies by both the Harris and the Trump campaigns.Can you paint a bit of a mood board of the city in the days before this election?
Yes, of course, when you think of Las Vegas, you don't normally think of politics.This is famously Sin City, a place people go to escape for the casinos and the entertainment on the strip and memories of Elvis and the Rat Pack and so on.
But the political circus has come to town because Las Vegas is in Nevada, one of the seven key battleground states that will probably decide the electoral college.And opinion polls for Nevada show the two candidates pretty much neck and neck.
And so it was, you know, the sphere, which is A new tourist attraction cost more than $2 billion, had a huge Kamala Harris campaign ad all over it.And there was another reminder in that Donald Trump has one of his luxury hotels in Las Vegas.
So his name was staring at us too.
Goodness me.So looking in more detail at the Harris rally, what was it like?And was it significant and a surprise that she had this big endorsement from Jennifer Lopez?
I'd say it was a festive atmosphere.It was something of a return to the politics of joy.There were lots of families, people of different ages, racial backgrounds.It was outdoors in a park.There had been some fireworks going off.
Quite an upbeat mood there.And yeah, the star turn was singer Jennifer Lopez, who gave quite an emotional impassioned speech for 13 minutes.
I am Puerto Rican.Soy boricua carajo.And yes, I was born here, and we are Americans.I am a mother.I am a mother.I am a sister.I am an actor and an entertainer, and I like Hollywood endings.
I like when the good guy, or in this case, the good girl wins.
So Jennifer Lopez being one of the most prominent and well known Puerto Ricans in America, why did you choose Nevada to make this endorsement?
Yes.I mean, Nevada has a population about 30% Latino.And they are really a crucial demographic in the presidential election.Traditionally, They back Democrats, but more recently polling suggests Donald Trump making some inroads among Latinos.
He suffered a possible setback there last weekend with his big rally in Madison Square Garden, New York, and Jennifer Lopez certainly brought that up as evidence of why Trump is to be feared.
I was thinking back to the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016 and remembering that she had this roster of megawatt A-list names endorsing her, particularly towards the end when she was running against Donald Trump eight years ago.
I'm just wondering, is there a risk that Kamala Harris looks kind of elitist in the way that Hillary Clinton did then with these sorts of A-list endorsements?Or do they still help and cut through, do you think?
I think that certainly is a risk, not least because Harris herself is from San Francisco, California, which is an immediate red flag for Trump and Republicans in terms of painting her as part of the liberal elite.
And it's certainly a popular applause line for Republicans to say. Democrats have become the party of Hollywood and perhaps Silicon Valley.Perhaps the most important celebrity endorsement of all for Harris is Taylor Swift.
I think that's probably a net positive.It's going to get more voters than she loses.Of course, she also has Beyonce.
But yes, I think if Harris loses, some of those same questions will be asked of have the Democrats lost touch with the white working class in America.
Let's look at the Trump rally that you were at yesterday.I imagine that was quite a different vibe to the Harris pageant.
It certainly was.This was slightly earlier in the day in Henderson, just outside Las Vegas, this time in an indoor arena.Big, big signs flashing, you know, Trump will fix it.And it was really another platform for his dark vision and rhetoric.
Trump was just riffing as he does talking about his powerful supporters, such as Elon Musk, and he also referenced Robert Kennedy Jr., who of course was an independent candidate in this election, but then endorsed Trump.
And the former president said Kennedy would be looking at women's health, among other things, which is alarming given Kennedy's track record.He's previously said he would support a national abortion ban.
He's obviously been a vaccine conspiracy theorist.The Harris campaign were quick to seize on this comment.And, you know, it's just another example of the gender gap in this election.
I mean, the idea of RFK being in charge of women's health, I'm sure, is not sparking much joy amongst those planning to vote for Kamala Harris.
I'm quite anxious to ask, but can we take a look at the polls and where they stand in those other key swing states beyond Nevada as we enter this very final weekend of campaigning?
The big picture overall is that the opinion polls are incredibly close in this election.It's very hard. to say one way or the other who's going to prevail.I have seen some polling in recent days that is encouraging for Kamala Harris, maybe picking up
a lead of one or two percentage points in some of the states, perhaps a little bit of momentum.But most of those are still within the margin of error.
And I think most commentators and pundits say, you know, only a fool would predict with any confidence how this is going to turn out.One aspect, of course, is that in both 2016 and 2020, the polls tended to underestimate Donald Trump's support.
So we'll see if that plays out again.
And of course, lots of early voting has been taking place over the last few weeks.We're told it's at record highs with more than 65 million votes already cast.What are we learning from that data, if anything?
Nevada, where I was, and Arizona, it would appear Republicans do have an edge in early voting.
But in Pennsylvania, which might be the most important state of all, there seems to be a new influx of female voters we haven't seen before, which again is a promising sign for Harris.
It's hard to know how this is going to settle down, who's voting early, who will vote on election day, who won't vote at all.
So with the election so close, as you say, there has been quite an extraordinary intervention from the European Greens, asking independent candidate Jill Stein to stand down.
Yeah, Green Party officials in Europe have called on Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate in the US, to drop out of this race in order to help Kamala Harris.
There's certainly a view that right now Stein might draw a small but potentially significant number of votes away from Harris, as she did from Hillary Clinton in 2016.
And also, I think, in the US and beyond, just some frustration with Jill Stein, that she's not necessarily the best conduit for the environmental movement.
Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has previously criticized Stein for, you know, only really getting involved in presidential elections, not doing the work at other times.She said it seems predatory.
and so I think people in Europe who, for all sorts of reasons, especially the climate, are praying for a Donald Trump defeat, really want Jill Stein to get out of the way.
Well, David, good luck this weekend and thank you.
That was David Smith and you can keep up with his reporting over at theguardian.com.Don't miss this week's episode of Politics Weekly America with Alice Herman who's out speaking to young voters in Wisconsin.It's a brilliant episode.
Today in Focus we'll be back with you on Monday morning as usual and US Election Extra at the same time that afternoon.Have a lovely weekend.
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