WASHINGTON (AP) — A presidential campaign that has battled through a felony trial, a sitting president pushed off the ticket and multiple assassination attempts is tantamount to a final assault on a handful of states on the eve of Election Day.

Kamala Harris will spend all of Monday in Pennsylvania, where the 19 electoral votes will provide the biggest prize among the states expected to determine the outcome of the Electoral College. The vice president and Democratic nominee will visit working-class neighborhoods including Allentown, ending with a late-night rally in Philadelphia, also attended by Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey.

Donald Trump plans four rallies in three states, starting in Raleigh, North Carolina and stopping twice in Pennsylvania with events in Reading and Pittsburgh. The Republican candidate and former president is ending his campaign the way he ended the first two: with an event late Monday night in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

About 77 million Americans have already voted early, but Harris and Trump aim to gain many millions more supporters on Tuesday. Both results on Election Day will produce a historic outcome.

A Trump victory would make him the first new president to be charged and convicted of a crime, following his hush-money trial in New York. He will have the power to end other federal investigations against him. Trump would also become the second president in history to win non-consecutive terms in the White House, after Grover Cleveland in the late 19th century.

Harris is vying to become the first woman, the first Black woman and the first person of South Asian descent to reach the Oval Office, four years after she broke the same barriers in national office by becoming President Joe Biden’s second in command.

The vice president rose to the top of the Democratic ticket after Biden’s disastrous performance in a June debate triggered his withdrawal from the race. That was just one of a series of convulsions that have hit this year’s campaign.

Trump survived a would-be assassin’s bullet by millimeters during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. His Secret Service official thwarted a second attempt in September, when a gunman set up a rifle while Trump played golf at one of his courses in Florida.

Harris, 60, has downplayed the historic nature of her candidacy, which only became a reality after the 81-year-old president ended his re-election bid after his June debate against the 78-year-old Trump accentuated questions about Biden’s age.

Instead, Harris has cast herself as a generational changer, emphasizing her support for abortion rights following the 2022 Supreme Court decision that ended the constitutional right to abortion services, and frequently mentioning the former president’s role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Assembling a coalition that ranges from progressives like New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Republican former Vice President Dick Cheney, Harris has called Trump a threat to democracy and even embraced criticism later in the campaign that Trump is being accurate described as a ‘fascist’. .”

Heading into Monday, Harris has largely stopped mentioning Trump. She promises to solve problems and seek consensus, while sounding an almost exclusively optimistic tone reminiscent of the opening days of her campaign, when she embraced “the politics of joy” and the campaign theme “Freedom.”

“From the beginning, our campaign has not been about being against something, but about being for something,” Harris said Sunday evening at Michigan State University.

Trump, who has renewed his slogans “Make America Great Again” and “America First,” has made his tough approach to immigration and his scathing criticism of Harris and Biden the anchors of his case for a second administration. He has pressured Democrats for an inflationary economy, and he has promised to lead an economic “golden age,” end international conflicts and seal the U.S. southern border.

But Trump has also often been mired in grievances over being prosecuted after trying to overturn Biden’s victory, and has repeatedly denigrated the country he wants to lead again as a “failed nation.” On Sunday, he repeated his false claims that US elections were rigged against him, mused about violence against journalists and said he “should not have left” the White House in 2021 – dark turns that have overshadowed another anchor of his closing argument. : “Kamala destroyed it. I will fix it.”

The election is likely to be decided in seven states. Trump won Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin in 2016, but saw them switch to Biden in 2020. North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada are adding the Sun Belt strip to the presidential battleground map.

Trump won North Carolina twice and lost Nevada twice. He won Arizona and Georgia in 2016, but saw them fall to the Democrats in 2020.

Harris’ team has projected confidence in recent days, pointing to a wide gender gap in early voting data and research showing late-deciding voters have shown her the way. They also believe in the power of their campaign infrastructure. This weekend, the Harris campaign had more than 90,000 volunteers helping voters — knocking on more than 3 million doors in battleground states. Still, Harris aides have insisted she remains the underdog.

Trump’s team has also projected confidence, arguing that the former president’s populist appeal will attract younger and working-class voters across racial and ethnic lines. The idea is that Trump can amass an atypical Republican coalition even as other traditional Republican blocs — particularly college-educated voters — become more Democratic.

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AP White House Correspondent Zeke Miller contributed to this report.