Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her rival, former President Donald Trump, squared off just a few miles apart in the city of Milwaukee — capping a day of events that served as one of the last efforts to drum up support before the election of November 5. election.

Milwaukee, the largest city in Wisconsin, is a voting area for Democrats, but Republicans are focusing on the surrounding conservative suburbs. Trump won the state in 2016 but lost in 2020.

“We know who Donald Trump is,” Harris said Friday evening. “This is not someone who thinks about how to make your life better. This is someone who is increasingly unstable, obsessed with revenge. He is consumed with resentment and the man is bent on unchecked power.”

Less than 10 miles away, in another part of town, Trump said: “My answer to Joe and Kamala is very simple: You can’t lead America if you don’t love America, and you can’t be president if you hate the American people.”

Democrats know they have to turn out voters in Milwaukee, also home to the state’s largest black population. Harris hopes to match and surpass the 2020 turnout in the city, which saw 79 percent vote for Biden that year.

Harris’ campaign warmed the youthful crowd with performances from music artists GloRilla, Flo Milli, MC Lyte, The Isley Brothers and DJ Gemini Gilly.

Harris was also supported by rapper Rapper Cardi B. “Did you hear what Donny Trump said the other day?” she said, referring to Trump’s promise to protect women “whether they like it or not.”

“Donny, don’t do that,” she said. “Please.”

Need to turn the page

Harris’ message, as has increasingly been the case at all her rallies, is that Americans are exhausted by Trump’s negative presence on the political stage and it is time to move on.

“We have an opportunity to finally turn the page on a decade in which Donald Trump tried to keep us divided and afraid of each other. We’re done with it, we’re exhausted with it, we’re turning the page,” she said.

Harris also emphasized the need to find common ground and compromise in the country’s deeply divided politics.

“Unlike Donald Trump, I don’t believe that people who disagree with me are the enemy,” she said.

“He wants to put them in jail. I will give them a seat at the table.”

Everyone wants a job

Trump told his supporters that he had asked his staff not to speculate about who might work for him if he wins.

“I don’t want to talk about people. First of all, I want to win. We don’t want to talk about people. Don’t tell me about people. Everyone wants a job, he said

“Remember this: There was a point where they said, ‘Oh, no one wants to work for Trump. He’s too difficult’. Let me tell you a little secret: they died working for us. Do you know why? Because they all want to be this glamor deal. They want to be part of this wonderful government.”

Trump’s rallies have taken on a touch of nostalgia in the final week before the election, and Friday was no exception.

At an afternoon rally in Warren, Michigan, he told supporters he felt “energized” by the campaign trail.

“This has been the thrill of a lifetime for me and for you and everyone,” he said.

Earlier on Friday, Harris had left Las Vegas for Wisconsin, where she gave a speech at a union hall in Janesville and then held an event in Little Chute before making a third stop in the Milwaukee neighborhood of West Allis.