US Presidential Election 2024: Candidates' Final Push

the US presidential election is just, over a week away both candidates are, making a final push for votes the, Republican candidate Donald Trump has, held a rally in his home state of New, York thousands of people gathered at, Madison Square Garden in Manhattan for, one of the highest profile events...

the US presidential election is just, over a week away both candidates are, making a final push for votes the, Republican candidate Donald Trump has, held a rally in his home state of New, York thousands of people gathered at, Madison Square Garden in Manhattan for, one of the highest profile events in his, campaign there was a long list of guests, who included Speaker of the House Mike, Johnson billionaire Elon Musk and Mr, Trump's running mate JD Vance there he, made one of his final pitches to voters, our senior North America correspondent, Gary odonahue was watching and sent this, report an iconic venue in Donald Trump's, Hometown he's wanted to hold a rally, here for years good evening New York, City and a rare appearance from the, former first lady she's largely steered, clear of this campaign for the candidate, himself the focus was on his opponent, comea you're fired get out and on the, main themes I will end in inflation I, will stop the invasion of criminals, coming into our country and I will bring, back the American, dream Donald Trump had lined up his, favorite famous supporters for this, Rally from an old wrestler to the eldest, son to the world's richest man all of, whom echoed his Central message on, immigration I will rescue every city in, town that has been invaded and conquered, and we will put these VIs ious and, bloodthirsty criminals in jail going to, kick them the hell out of our country as, fast as, possible as we enter the final week of, campaigning the polls are telling us, that there is only one or two percentage, points dividing Donald Trump and Carmela, Harris in those key swing States no one, knows at this stage how this is going to, go Gary Adon H BBC News at Madison, Square Garden in New, York meanwhile vice president kamla, Harris was in Pennsylvania one of the, Battleground states that could decide, how this election plays out the, Democratic nominee has been making the, rounds through the city of Philadelphia, where she attended a church service, stopped by a Bookshop a youth basketball, facility and a Puerto Rican restaurant, Miss Harris later held a rally to cap, off the day where she brought up the, conflict in the Middle East a key issue, to voters who are unhappy with the Biden, administration's response to the Israel, Gaza War, I want to talk about Gaza for a minute, okay we can and we must seize this, opportunity to end this war and bring, the hostages, home and I will do everything in my, power to meet that end my colleague sui, Sumas scander in Washington has the, details on the latest polls we've seen, the latest polling coming in from our, partners here in the US CBS News and, they have shown that on the national, level kamla Harris has a one point, percentage lead over Donald Trump and in, those critical seven Battleground States, they are tied it is a dead heat and, remember it is those Battleground states, that matter the most and that is why, we're seeing both candidates both KLA, Harris and Donald Trump out on the, campaign Trail trying to drum up as much, support as possible particularly among, some of those persuadable voters some of, those people who might not have cast a, ballot at all in the last election, hoping to somehow gather enough votes, together to be able to win it is, important to say that both of these, candidates gave us a bit of an idea of, what their closing message might be so, Donald Trump you heard in that report, from our colleague Gary there speaking, about economy immigration about crime, these are themes that we continue to, hear from Donald Trump on the campaign, Trail and he painted a fundamentally, dark picture of where the country is, right now he talked about Sinister and, corrupt forces underway in the US and he, used this phrase the Enemy Within he's, used this to talk about what he calls, the radical marxists left marxists in, this country but he's talked about his, own Democratic political opponents as, enemies more dangerous as he has said, than Iran or Russia or China foreign, adversaries so that is a message that, Donald Trump doubled down on today a few, months ago or a month or two ago we, heard this joyful Warrior message from, kamla Harris talking about uh what she, would do on abortion on and on the, economy in the last week or so we have, seen that shift fairly significantly, where she's talking about Donald Trump, as a threat to democracy as a fascist as, she called him and as someone who would, rule as a dictator as she said on day, one referring to a message we'd heard, from Donald Trump so really getting a, sense with eight days left of what the, closing messages are going to be see be, summer scander in Washington with eight, days to go the polls are still very, tight if you draw out the overall Trends, rather than the individual point, in the National polls vice president, kamla Harris's lead has been slipping, and is now down to around a single point, but the national vote share won't, determine the winner let's turn to the, seven Battleground states that could be, decisive in this election Mr Trump's, poll leads in North Carolina Arizona and, Georgia are between one and two points, other states like Nevada Wisconsin and, Pennsylvania are even tighter but none, of the leads we're seeing are bigger, than the margins of error that come with, all polls