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By Nandita Bose and Steve Holland DETROIT/KINSTON, North Carolina (Reuters) -Democrat Kamala Harris made her closing pitch for the U.S. presidency at a historically Black church and to Arab Americans in battleground Michigan on Sunday, while her Republican rival Donald Trump embraced violent rhetoric at a rally in Pennsylvania. Opinion polls show the pair locked …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has surpassed Republican Donald Trump in a new poll in Iowa, with likely women voters responsible for the turnaround in a state that Trump easily won in 2016 and 2020, according to a Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll released on Saturday. The poll of 808 likely voters, …

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By Steve Holland LITITZ, Pennsylvania (Reuters) -Republican Donald Trump complained to supporters on Sunday about gaps in the bullet-proof glass surrounding him as he spoke and mused that an assassin would have to shoot through the news media to get him, adding, “I don’t mind that so much.” In a meandering 90-minute rally speech two …

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(Corrects paragraph 4 to remove extraneous word have) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump remain in a tight race in the country’s seven battleground states two days before the U.S. presidential election, according to the final New York Times/Siena College poll. The opinion poll showed Vice President Harris with marginal …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Kamala Harris’ appearance on “Saturday Night Live,” a late surprise by the Democratic presidential candidate in her race against Republican Donald Trump, follows in the footsteps of past candidates, including Trump himself. In October 2015, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared on the NBC-TV comedy and political satire show as she was …

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By Nandita Bose and James Oliphant NEW YORK (Reuters) -Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris appeared on the “Saturday Night Live” TV comedy show on Saturday, adding a surprise jolt to the U.S. presidential election just three days before her showdown with Republican Donald Trump. Harris portrayed herself, appearing in a mirror opposite the actor who …

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By Jeff Mason SCRANTON, Pennsylvania (Reuters) -Barack Obama once said if there were no Scranton, Pennsylvania, there would be no Joe Biden. The sitting president, whose term ends in January, returned to his childhood hometown on Saturday for a final campaign stop in support of Vice President Kamala Harris, seeking to use his sway in …

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By Arriana McLymore, Bianca Flowers and Allende Miglietta GREENSBORO, N.C./WASHINGTON, D.C. (Reuters) – Dressed in her school’s signature blue and gold colors, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University student Nia Heaston strolled around campus, marveling at the buzz during its 98th homecoming weekend in late October. Like thousands of students, alumni and supporters of …

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