Kamala Harris appealed to voters upset by the Gaza conflict, while Donald Trump intensified his violent rhetoric, suggesting journalists should be shot, as the US election campaign reached its final hours.

Both the Democratic vice president and the Republican former president rushed through several swing states, trying to win over the last undecided voters with less than 36 hours until polls open on Election Day.

Trump predicted a “landslide,” while Harris told an enthusiastic rally in Michigan that “we have momentum — it’s on our side.”

The 2024 race is extremely close, with more key states effectively tied than in any comparable election. Over 77.6 million people have cast early votes, about half of the total ballots cast in 2020.

With time running out, Harris, 60, spent the day in Michigan, where she risks losing the critical support of a 200,000-strong Arab-American community that has criticized the US handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict.

“As president, I will do everything in my power to end the war in Gaza,” Harris said at Michigan State University, noting the presence of community leaders.

‘Demonic’ However, the rest of her speech was upbeat, focusing more on urging people to vote than attacking Trump.

“We got two days to get this done,” she said.

Earlier, Harris quoted scripture in a majority-Black church in Detroit, Michigan, urging Americans to look beyond Trump.

“Let us turn the page and write the next chapter of our history,” she said.

Trump, on Sunday, traveled through Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia — the three biggest swing-state prizes in the Electoral College system.

The 78-year-old Trump, the oldest major party candidate in US history, added to his increasingly dark rhetoric by suggesting in Lititz, Pennsylvania, that he wouldn’t mind if journalists were shot.

Discussing an assassination attempt against him in July, he said to laughter that to be hit again, “somebody would have to shoot through the fake news — and I don’t mind that so much.”

Trump called Democrats “demonic” and, despite no evidence of significant election cheating, claimed that Democrats in Pennsylvania “are fighting so hard to steal this damn thing.”

Adding to fears that he would not accept a defeat in 2024, Trump said he “shouldn’t have left” the White House after losing his 2020 reelection to Joe Biden.

RFK Jr Controversy Trump, meanwhile, said in Macon, Georgia, that he had asked vaccine-skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who dropped his presidential bid to support Trump, to work on “women’s health” and “pesticides.”

His comments came a day after Kennedy caused concern by saying that a Trump White House would order US water systems to remove fluoride from public water supplies.

Later, in another speech in Kinston, North Carolina, Trump said, “we’re going to have on Tuesday a landslide that’s too big to rig.”

However, polls show the result is likely to be historically tight.

A final New York Times/Siena poll on Sunday showed incremental changes in swing states, but the results from all seven remained within the margin of error.

Harris received a boost on Saturday as the final Des Moines Register poll for Iowa — seen as a highly credible test of wider public sentiment — showed a stunning turnaround, with Harris ahead in a state Trump won easily in 2016 and 2020.

In the final hours, both candidates are desperately trying to shore up their bases and win over any undecided voters.

Pollsters have noted a decline in Black support for Harris.

However, with abortion rights a top voter concern, her campaign has highlighted the large proportion of women among early voters.