Republican US Presidential Candidate Donald Trump's party today will lead a rally in "Madison Square Garden". in New York, an event in the state that last supported a Republican president in 1984, reported Reuters, quoted by BTA.
His Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, traveled to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's largest city and Democratic stronghold, and planned stops at a barber shop, a Puerto Rican restaurant and a basketball court to encourage people to vote.< /p>
Speaking today at the Christian Compassion Church, Harris did not mention Trump by name. "At this point we are faced with a real question: What kind of country do we want to live in?", she said. The vice president's visit to the Church of Christian Compassion in Philadelphia, where the pastor introduced her to the service as "the voice of the future", was the first of the day in the largest city in the state of Pennsylvania, the Associated Press noted.
In his speech, Harris drew on the story of the apostle Paul, who overcame hardships to spread the word of Jesus.
US billionaire Elon Musk, who has backed Trump with his social media platform X, his vast wealth and a cash giveaway that has raised legal questions, will be among the keynote speakers, the Trump campaign said.
Trump will use the event at the iconic venue to deliver his closing arguments against Harris.
"We want to end with a nice bang,”, he said last week.
Polls show that support for the rival candidates in the swing states that will decide the election is close just over a week before Election Day. More than 38 million votes have already been cast, according to Reuters.
Musk, CEO of "Tesla" and SpaceX, as well as the owner of X, traveled around Pennsylvania on Trump's behalf and gave $119 million to his Trump support group, which is helping to attract voters in the most contested states.
The South African-born billionaire businessman briefly worked illegally in the United States in the 1990s while developing his software company, according to the Washington Post, cited by Reuters and BTA.
Musk today refuted the claims contained in a post yesterday, saying he had permission to work legally in the US during that period. "I had a J-1 visa that turned into an H1-B visa," he said on his "Ex" platform. The J-1 Exchange Visitor visa allows international students to study in the US, while the H1-B visa allows them to be temporarily employed.
"Washington Post" reported that in 1995, Musk arrived in Palo Alto, California to study at Stanford University, but never enrolled in his master's program there. Instead, he developed the software company Zip2, which he sold in 1999 for about $300 million, the newspaper said.
According to two immigration law experts cited by the daily, Musk would have had to be enrolled in a full course of study to have a valid student work permit.
In a 2020 podcast quoted by the Washington Post, Musk said, “I was there legally, but I was expected to do student labor. I had the right to do something like auxiliary work.
The newspaper cited two former colleagues of Musk who recalled that he received his US work permit in or around 1997.
Elon Musk has endorsed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in the upcoming US election, in which the former president is expected to enter a tight race against Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, according to polls.
Trump has for years portrayed migrants as invaders and criminals, and during his 2017-2021 administration, he introduced tough measures to limit legal and illegal migration. He promises to launch the largest deportation campaign in US history if re-elected.