Opinion polls continue to show a tied race, particularly in the seven battleground states that will likely determine the outcome in the US Electoral College system, leaving the Republican businessman and his 60-year-old Democratic rival fighting hard to wrest even a sliver of support from each other’s camps.

Harris, currently President Joe Biden’s vice president, is doing so by appealing to centrist voters and driving her base to the polls with a strong running game and get-out-the-vote effort.

Thousands of women were expected to demonstrate Saturday, under the banner “We will not go back,” in cities across the country in support of Harris and abortion rights.

But as he worked to appeal to women voters of all parties, using issues such as abortion and health care, Trump lashed out at a Democratic television ad that showed his supporters’ wives secretly voting for Harris.

“Can you imagine a wife who doesn’t tell her husband who she’s going to vote for?” he asked on Fox News Saturday morning.

Harris, who previously chastised Trump for saying he would protect women “whether they like it or not,” has encouraged voters to “finally turn the page” on the former president.

“He is someone increasingly unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed by grievance… and the man seeks unchecked power,” he told followers in Little Chute, Wisconsin, on Friday.

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Meanwhile, Trump has doubled down on his already extreme rhetoric in hopes of encouraging his loyal base to go to the polls in droves.

“Kamala’s final message to America is that she hates you,” Trump raged Friday night in Warren, Michigan, where he trashed the Biden-Harris economy as a disaster, even though experts say the economy in general is strong.

He also warned that “a 1929-style economic depression” would occur if Harris were elected. Speaking on Fox on Saturday, Trump described the weak jobs data released Friday as “the worst jobs numbers ever,” though analysts said the numbers were a temporary blip.

Citing his tough views on foreign policy, Trump had previously evoked the image of Liz Cheney, a former Republican representative turned Harris supporter, being shot.

“She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her in there with a rifle and nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are pointed in her face,” Trump said.