The rally backfired due to a series of off-color, racist, and misogynistic comments from speakers, which reinforced perceptions of Trump's extremism and divisiveness.
The Harris campaign used the divisive and offensive comments to highlight Trump's extremism and to appeal to swing voters, particularly Latino voters, by emphasizing the negative consequences of a Trump presidency.
Michelle Obama's speech targeted male voters to highlight the personal and emotional stakes of abortion rights, emphasizing how these issues can directly impact the women in their lives.
The Harris campaign is cautiously confident because they believe their closing messages on Trump's divisiveness, democratic threats, and abortion rights are resonating with swing voters, particularly women and college-educated voters.
The burning of ballot drop boxes in three states has raised concerns about election interference and heightened fears of violence and distrust in the electoral process.
In the final week of the race for president, Donald J. Trump’s big rally in New York appeared to backfire, while Kamala Harris’s closing message cast her as a unifier. Fears about election interference also resurfaced after arsonists burned ballots in three states.
The Times journalists Michael Barbaro, Lisa Lerer, Shane Goldmacher and Astead Herndon try to make sense of it all.
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