Though she downplayed her historic bid, Kamala Harris stated Tuesday that America is “absolutely” ready to elect its first female president, stating that she only wants to turn the page for a country that is “exhausted” by Donald Trump.

In an attempt to gain an edge in a contest that polls indicate is almost matched, Harris and Trump are packing swing states with rallies and using podcasts and the radio to spread their message only two weeks before Election Day.

She claimed that because Donald Trump is all about himself, people are fed up with him and his strategy.

In North Carolina, Trump delivered a completely different message to his fans.

“This election is a choice between us starting the four greatest years in our nation’s history or having four more years of incompetence, failure, and disaster,” he said to applause.

During the event, he called Harris and her running mate Tim Walz dumb many times.

“Lock him up.” The contest is dominated by extreme tensions, concerns of violence, and Trump’s inability to accept the outcome if he loses, as he still does after losing to Joe Biden in 2020.

During a vote-counting process that might take days to finish, Harris told NBC that her team was “of course” prepared for a situation in which Trump declares victory too soon.

Biden, who has seldom appeared during Harris’s campaign, challenged Trump on Tuesday by rephrasing the former president’s well-known anti-Hillary Clinton cry, “Lock her up.”

Biden told a small group of people during a visit to New Hampshire that “we got to lock” Trump up, adding that we needed to “politically lock him up” as soon as possible.

The White House has been cautious not to comment on Trump’s legal issues because the Republican is running against Harris for Biden’s job and has many ongoing criminal allegations against him.

Biden and Harris had a “plan all along… to politically persecute their opponent,” the Trump campaign retorted.

Approximately 18 million Americans have already cast ballots in person or by mail, accounting for over 10% of the total in 2020.

While it’s still within the range of error, certain polls seem to favour the Republican, who at 78 is the oldest nominee from a major party in US history.

Whatever the result, US voters will make history on November 5: they will either elect the country’s first woman president, or they will put the first convicted felon into the White House.

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Harris, 60, is also deploying two of her party’s most popular emissaries onto the campaign trail: Barack and Michelle Obama.

The former president, speaking at a rally in Madison on Tuesday, rolled back the years with fiery attacks on Trump.

“Don’t boo, vote!” he implored people after his jibes.

Laster in the day, Rapper Eminem upped the star factor when he introduced Obama at a major Harris campaign event in Detroit, drawing a rapped reply from the ex-president.

I don’t usually get nervous, but I was feeling some kinda way following Eminem,” Obama said before launching into a recitation of the lyrics to the rapper’s hit “Lose Yourself”.

At the same time, Trump has increasingly repeated conspiracy theories on the campaign trail, often taking aim at migrants and his political opponents.

While speaking to Latino leaders Tuesday in Florida he said: “As president, you have tremendous — it’s called extreme power. You have extreme power.”

“You can, just by the fact, you say, ‘Close the border,’ and the border’s closed,” he added.

The Harris campaign has begun to hammer at his mental and physical fitness to occupy the Oval Office while trying to woo moderate Republican voters.

Former Marine General John Kelly, one of Trump’s top presidential advisors, admitted to The New York Times on Tuesday that he believed the Republican was a fascist.

It is undeniable that the former president leans far to the right, is an authoritarian, and has shown admiration for tyrants. Therefore, he unquestionably fits the broad definition of fascist.

According to Joe Rogan, presenter of one of America’s most popular podcasts, his interview with Trump is scheduled to air on Friday.

The campaign’s use of non-traditional media, such as podcasts, to target particular demographics, such as young women and Black males, has been crucial.