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In what many saw as an act of desperation, Vice President Kamala Harris knocked on doors on the battleground in Pennsylvania on Monday evening, with some accusing her campaign of staging the event.
According to a pool report, Harris visited Reading, Pa., and stopped in a residential neighborhood on Monday night. After navigating a driveway, the vice president met with a family consisting of two parents and their adult son, The Hill reported.
“Cole, that’s our son’s name!” Harris said when shaking hands with the son, who said his name was Cole, per the pool report.
Harris also posted a video on her social platform X Monday night, writing, “Took some time today to hear from voters in Pennsylvania and ask for their support.”
“There’s still time to join us on the doors,” the post continued, with a link to a website featuring campaign events for her.
In the video, the vice president is shown waiting at a door until a woman opens it, steps outside, and hugs her. Shortly after, a man identified as her husband also emerges.
Harris then tells the woman and her husband that she “just wanted to come by and say, ‘I hope to earn your vote,’” and the woman responds that Harris has her “vote already.”
Several X users were critical of the video, with the Trump War Room posting: “Totally not staged.”
WATCH:
Totally not staged. https://t.co/5hMEXzeOAo
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) November 5, 2024
No one no one who is in there right frame of mind would vote for her, for democrats to offer her up as a legitimate candidate is cruel and unusual punishment on the mental condition of Americans.
— Mediocre Originals (@grizzlymou93478) November 5, 2024
Nope not staged at all.. lmao. Not like the SS would be cool with VP knocking on random unvetted folks’ doors.
— Max (@maxwellian278) November 5, 2024
Nope not staged at all.. lmao. Not like the SS would be cool with VP knocking on random unvetted folks’ doors.
— Max (@maxwellian278) November 5, 2024
Nope not staged at all.. lmao. Not like the SS would be cool with VP knocking on random unvetted folks’ doors.
— Max (@maxwellian278) November 5, 2024
This is fake just like her entire campaign 💯
— Bella Cowgirl (@Bella_CowgirlTX) November 5, 2024
I would’ve opened the door just long enough to say “Get the hell of my property!!!”
— Outlaw In Texas (@OutlawInTX) November 5, 2024
In the small township of Dixville Notch in New Hampshire, Harris and former President Donald Trump are tied with three votes each. This makes Dixville Notch one of the first places in the country to report its presidential choice.
CNN reported that the rural township is at the northern tip of New Hampshire, on the border between the US and Canada.
As has been done since 1960, the polls opened and closed just after midnight ET. Four Republicans and two people who hadn’t said they were voting took part.
As usual, everyone qualified to vote goes to the now-defunct Balsams Hotel in Dixville Notch at midnight to cast their secret ballots. Once all the votes are counted, the results are made public hours before they are made public anywhere else. This makes the polls a popular place for national reporters, who often outnumber the voters.
It should be noted that in 2020, all five votes in the township went to President Joe Biden. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won four of the seven votes cast, while two went to Trump and one to Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate.
So, for Trump to tie this time around with Harris could be an early sign of a sea change in voting patterns around the country — or confirmation that the race will be very tight.
