Trump rallies Pennsylvania voters as Harris makes final pitch in DC

Vice President Harris and former President Trump spoke to voters at nearly concurrent events Tuesday evening, a week before Election Day.

Harris made her closing argument in Washington, D.C., while Trump rallied a crowd in key battleground Pennsylvania.

Harris spoke for just over 30 minutes Tuesday evening at the Ellipse, the same spot where Trump spoke to his supporters and encouraged them to march to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Trump took the stage shortly after the Harris began speaking at his rally in Allentown, Pa., which has a significant Latino population.

Trump arrived to roars from the crowd just as the vice president was telling her supporters: “It is time for a new generation of leadership in America.”

Around midday Tuesday, Trump spoke from his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, as his campaign faces a second day of backlash and his team has sought to distance the GOP presidential nominee from comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s Puerto Rico comments on Sunday.

Former President Trump on Tuesday shrugged off the furor over a racist joke told by a comedian at his Madison Square Garden rally.

Trump made his first on-camera comments about the backlash over Tony Hinchcliffe’s remarks in which he compared Puerto Rico to a “floating island of garbage.”

“What they’ve done is taken somebody that has nothing to do with the party, has nothing to do with us, said something. And they try to make a big deal,” Trump said on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News. “But I don’t know who it is. I don’t even know who put him in, and I can’t imagine it’s a big deal.”

Harris hit Trump on abortion, arguing the Republican nominee would ban it “nationwide” during her speech in Washington’s National Mall.

“He would ban abortion nationwide, restrict access to birth control and put IVF treatments at risk and force states to monitor women’s pregnancies. Just Google Project 2025, and read the plans for yourself,” Harris said while referencing the conservative policy blueprint developed in case a GOP nominee wins in November.

Trump has publicly distanced himself from the plan.

“I believe in the fundamental freedom of Americans to make decisions about their own bodies and not have their government tell them what to do,” the Democratic nominee said as the crowd cheered.

Harris said she would fight to “restore” reproductive rights following the overturn of Roe v. Wade in 2022.

“One in three women in America lives in a state with a Trump abortion ban, many with no exceptions, even for rape and incest,” she said Tuesday. “The idea that a woman who survives a crime of a violation to her body should not have the authority to make a decision about what happens to her body next. That is immoral, that is immoral.”