No polls have shown a clear lead for either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump: a day before the polls open, the US presidential election looks more unpredictable than ever, between two completely different opponents.

The Democratic vice president and the Republican former president continued their back-to-back appearances in key states on Sunday, where it will be decided whether the White House gate will be opened for a woman for the first time, or if, on the contrary, the Republican will return.

Donald Trump expects to sweep, “flood” of votes in his favor. Kamala Harris, at a campaign stop in Michigan, for her part assured that “the momentum has shifted to our side”.

In that state, where she risks losing the support of Arab voters — some 200,000 people — because of the outgoing U.S. administration’s support for Israel, the Democratic candidate vowed to “do everything to stop the war” in her Strip. Gaza and Lebanon.

“I want to say that this year is difficult, given the magnitude of the deaths and destruction in Gaza, given the number of casualties among civilians and displaced persons in Lebanon,” the situation is “terrible,” he acknowledged.

On the other hand, the Republican indulged in new verbal excesses.

Referring to the armored glass that is now placed around him in his public appearances, after the two assassination attempts since the summer, he said that in order to succeed, someone must “penetrate” the journalists, adding that he did not mind “that much”.

“I shouldn’t have left” the White House, said the 78-year-old tycoon, who never acknowledged defeat in 2020 and whose supporters stormed the federal Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to block the formal ratification of Joe Biden’s victory. .

As Kamala Harris announced yesterday, more than 78 million Americans have already voted, either in advance or by mail.

Tomorrow (the day after tomorrow, Wednesday Greek time), after the polling stations close, the feverish wait will begin. No one knows whether it will be hours or days before America’s major television networks, which have traditionally had this privilege, are able to predict a victory for one or the other.

In any case, the Republican former president has already laid the groundwork to challenge the outcome should he lose.

“They are trying with all their might to steal” the election, he said in his red cap yesterday, once again questioning the reliability of the vote counting procedures.

The electoral machinery “is reliable,” countered Kamala Harris.

The most recent New York Times and Siena poll, focusing on the seven most critical states, indicated that the difference was too small to draw any conclusion.

The Democratic candidate is counting on her advocacy of abortion rights, an issue she highlighted in her generally centrist campaign, to mobilize women en masse.

On the other hand, the real estate tycoon, who did not seem to be cut out for attracting moderate voters, uses increasingly violent rhetoric.

Before his remarks that someone should “pierce” the press with bullets, he had already sparked a backlash by appearing to say he would like to confront his arch-rival, former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, with rifle barrels.

Yesterday’s statements “had nothing to do with harming” media workers, Donald Trump, on the other hand, is concerned about the “danger” faced by journalists who “should also” have protective glass, assured a representative of his campaign.

The two rivals, who have each spent hundreds of millions of dollars on their campaigns, continue to tour contested states and saturate the media, especially electronic media, with advertisements.

The 60-year-old vice president, a former district attorney from California, daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, became a rather sudden candidate for president in July, following the deafening decision of Joe Biden, 81, to withdraw from the race.

He calls on Americans to “turn the page on a decade with Donald Trump,” the real estate tycoon who was surprisingly elected to the presidency in 2016, causing a series of upheavals in US international relations and shaking the country’s democracy.

Kamala Harris has called him a “fascist” who wants “revenge”.

Donald Trump, on the other hand, whose convictions and prosecutions seem to be slipping away from him, does not hesitate to use openly offensive language, questioning, among other things, the intelligence of his opponent.

He presents himself as a sort of god-sent leader for a US that he says is threatened by economic disaster and is being “invaded” by millions of illegal immigrants, many of whom the former president says are “murderers”.

The electoral system in the US, a federal state, is complex. The presidency is decided by universal but indirect suffrage: citizens elect an electorate of 538 members, divided among the 50 states, meaning that the number of votes each candidate receives is not decisive.

Many states are already considered a foregone conclusion for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Hence the efforts of the two rivals and the interest has been focused on the seven “swing states”, the claimed states.