Harris and Trump in North Carolina: Two rallies, two parallel universes The speeches delivered by the U.S. presidential candidates in the same state on the same day underscore the stark contrast between their visions for the country, in a campaign characterized by confrontation, deep mistrust and palpable anxiety Much like flocks of birds that draw near and drift apart without ever touching, the campaigns of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have been tracing a zigzag across the seven swing states in the U.
S. elections, as the two rally supporters and seek that elusive prize: the undecided voter, an electoral unicorn. In the final week of the campaign, these dual paths to the White House intensified.
On Saturday, they nearly intersected in North Carolina, one of the battlegrounds for what may be one of the closest elections in modern U.S. history.
The moment unfolded in the afternoon as Harris descended the stairs of Air Force Two upon landing in Charlotte, the state’s most populous city. Just 100 meters away stood Trump Force One , her rival’s imposing aircraft. The Democratic candidate kept her eyes fixed on the tarmac, deliberately avoiding the sight of her opponent’s name emblazoned in bold letters across the fuselage of the Boeing 757.
Following that brief non-encounter, the dialogue of the deaf between the two candidates — and by extension, the two Americas — could resume. Each retreated into their respective parallel universes, just three days before the electio.
