ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — vice president Kamala Harris and former president donald trump made their final addresses to voters Monday in the same part of Pennsylvaniaaround the same time, spending the last full day of the presidential campaign in a state that could make or break his chances.

Focusing on the southeast corner of Pennsylvania, Trump took the stage in Readingabout 30 miles from Allentownwhere Harris held his own event about half an hour later.

“If we win Pennsylvania, we win the entire ball of wax,” Trump said. “It’s over.”

In fact, a Trump victory in Pennsylvania, which would change the 19 Electoral College votes, would break the Democrats’ “blue wall” and make it more difficult for Harris to obtain the necessary 270 votes.

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Harris, the Democratic nominee, spent all of Monday in Pennsylvania, the biggest prize among the states expected to determine the Electoral College outcome, and offered an equally blunt assessment.

“We need everyone in Pennsylvania to vote,” he said. “You are going to make a difference in these elections.”

In addition to Allentown, Harris visited Scranton, the birthplace of President Joe Biden, and had a stop planned in Reading before finishing with an evening rally in Philadelphia that would include Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey.

“Are you ready to do this?” Harris shouted Monday in Scranton, with a large handmade sign reading “VOTE FOR FREEDOM” behind her and a similar banner reading “VOTE” next to her.

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Trump went first to North Carolina before visiting Reading. He will head to Pittsburgh, on the opposite end of the state, before concluding in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he will hold his final campaign rally in the same place where he concluded his 2016 and 2020 campaigns.

Southeastern Pennsylvania is home to thousands of Latinos, including a sizable Puerto Rican population. Harris and her allies have repeatedly criticized Trump for a comedian’s dig at Puerto Rico during the former president’s main event at Madison Square Garden. Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”

“It was absurd,” said German Vega, a Dominican American who lives in Reading and became a U.S. citizen in 2015. “It upset a lot of people, including a lot of Republicans. It wasn’t right, and I think Trump should have apologized.” to Latinos.”

But Emilio Feliciano, 43, waited outside Reading’s Santander Arena for a chance to take a photo of Trump’s motorcade. He dismissed the comments about Puerto Rico even though his family is Puerto Rican, saying he cares about the economy and that is why he will vote for Trump.

“Will the border be secure? Are they going to keep crime down? That’s what matters to me,” he said.

Harris told the crowd: “I stand here proud of my long-standing commitment to Puerto Rico and its people.”

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“And I will be a president for all Americans,” she said, adding that “the momentum is on our side. Can you feel it?”

Meanwhile, Trump limited himself to talking about his proposed crackdown on immigration. He called to the stage Patty Morin, the mother of Rachel Morin, 37, who was found dead a day after she went missing during a hiking trip. Authorities say the suspect in her death, Víctor Antonio Martínez Hernández, entered the United States illegally after allegedly killing a woman in his home country of El Salvador.

About 77 million Americans voted early. A victory for either side would be unprecedented.

Trump’s victory would make him the first incoming president to be charged and convicted of a serious crime, following his secret trial in New York. He will gain the power to end other federal investigations pending against him. Trump would also become the second president in history to win non-consecutive terms in the White House, following 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 to national office by becoming the second to command of President Joe Biden.

The vice president rose to the top of the Democratic ticket after Biden’s disastrous debate performance in June set in motion his withdrawal from the race, one of a series of upheavals that hit this year’s campaign.

Trump narrowly survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. His Secret Service team thwarted a second attempt in September, when a gunman planted a rifle while Trump played golf at one of his courses in Florida.

Harris, 60, has presented herself as a generational change from Biden, 81, and Trump, 78. She has emphasized her support for abortion rights after the 2022 Supreme Court decision that ended the right constitutional to abortion services, and has periodically pointed out the former president’s role in the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol.

Forming a coalition that includes everyone from progressives like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York to former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, Harris has called Trump a threat to democracy and late in the campaign even embraced criticism that he describes himself with Accusation of Trump as a “fascist.”

Heading into Monday, Harris all but stopped mentioning Trump by name and called him “the other one.” She promises to solve problems and seek consensus.

Harris campaign chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillion said in a call with reporters that not saying Trump’s name was deliberate because voters “want to see in their leader an optimistic, hopeful and patriotic vision for the future.”

Harris also offered some insights into her personal background as a politician that she doesn’t typically divulge. In Scranton, he talked about how he was once a long-shot while running for San Francisco district attorney in 2002 and how he “used to campaign with my ironing board.”

“I would walk to the front of the grocery store, outside, and pick up my ironing board because, you see, an ironing board makes a great standing desk,” the vice president said, recalling how she would film her posting signs outside of the board, fill the top with brochures and “require that people talk to me when they come and go.”

In Allentown, Harris met with rapper Fat Joe and planned to visit a Puerto Rican restaurant in Reading with prominent New York progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Both Fat Joe, whose real name is Joseph Cartagena, and Ocasio-Cortez, are of Puerto Rican descent.

While standing in line for Harris’ rally in Allentown, Ron Kessler, 54, an Air Force veteran and Republican-turned-Democrat, said he planned to vote for the second time in his life. Kessler said he didn’t vote for a long time because he thought the country would “vote for the right candidate.”

But “now that I’m older and much wiser, I think it’s important, it’s my civic duty. And it’s important that I vote for myself and I vote for democracy and the country.”

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.