Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have held dueling campaign rallies in Wisconsin’s largest city Milwaukee, as both candidates make frantic last-ditch appeals to wavering voters with Election Day just around the corner.

Republican Trump will return to the venue where he was crowned his party’s presidential nominee over the summer, his ear bandaged in bright white gauze after he was wounded in an attempted assassination just days earlier, while Democrat Harris will lean on the star power of rapper Cardi B to outshine her rival.

Their race back to the so-called Blue Wall states came after the pair spent Thursday in the US West, with three appearances each.

Wisconsin, one of the key battleground states that will swing the November 5 election, was decided by less than one percentage point in 2016 and 2020, and the race for its 10 electoral college votes is just as tight this time around.

 Republican presidential nominee and former US President Donald Trump attends a campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, US, on Oct 30, 2024. — Reuters
Republican presidential nominee and former US President Donald Trump attends a campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, US, on Oct 30, 2024. — Reuters

 Democratic presidential nominee and US Vice President Kamala Harris reacts at a campaign rally in Madison, Wisconsin, US on Oct 30, 2024. — Reuters
Democratic presidential nominee and US Vice President Kamala Harris reacts at a campaign rally in Madison, Wisconsin, US on Oct 30, 2024. — Reuters

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