Trump predicted he would win not only the Electoral College count but also a majority of votes cast across the country, something he failed to do in two previous attempts.

“We’re going to win the popular vote,” Trump told the crowd. “I think we have a very good chance of winning the popular vote.”

Harris, meanwhile, urged her supporters to vote early so she can be elected and provide the “next generation of leadership” she claims to represent.

“I am ready to provide that leadership as the next president of the United States of America,” she said during a speech at a rally in the parking lot of the Atlanta Civic Center. She had to stop several times to allow doctors to tend to people who had passed out after spending hours in the heat.

“It’s hot here in Atlanta,” the vice president said.

It was unclear whether Harris herself had voted early. Campaign spokesman Michael Tyler said Saturday that Harris planned to vote by mail, but he could not say whether she had returned her ballot to her home state of California. Trump confirmed Saturday that he would vote in person on Tuesday in Florida, although he previously said he would vote early.

“Has anyone here voted yet?” she asked the Atlanta crowd, who clapped loudly in response. “Oh wow. Oh my God. Thank you, thank you.”

It was part of a final frenzied push by Harris, Trump, their running mates and their high-profile surrogates to encourage people to vote early or in person on Election Day on Tuesday.

Harris’ campaign was hoping for a “high-impact” moment with a two-minute spot airing Sunday during NFL games on CBS and FOX, including the Green Bay Packers against the Detroit Lions, two swing state teams. It shows Harris interacting with people during the campaign and speaking directly to viewers.

“Now I’m asking for your vote because as president, I will stand up every day and fight for the American people,” she says at the end.

Harris campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon projected confidence Saturday during a conference call with reporters as both sides embarked on this final sprint to get out of the vote. “If you can hear the joy in my voice, it’s because we’re on GOTV weekend,” she said.

Trump, meanwhile, spoke wistfully, as he has at some of his recent rallies, about the fact that after nearly a decade of campaigning, his latest run is coming to an end.

“We’re going to see each other a few more times, I hope,” the former president said at the first of two rallies in North Carolina. “This has been the thrill of a lifetime for me and for you.”

At the second rally, in Greensboro, he said he would hold two more days of rallying “and then we’ll stop it, so it doesn’t happen again.” He said he would then hold “a different form of rally – a rally for our country.”

He later laughed with a sexist joke about Harris. As Trump repeated, without evidence, that Harris had lied about working at McDonalds in her youth, someone in the crowd shouted, “She worked around here.” » Trump laughed, looked around and pointed at part of the crowd.

“This place is amazing,” he said to applause. “Remember, it’s other people saying it. It’s not me.

The planes carrying Harris and Trump met on the tarmac in Charlotte, North Carolina, where the vice president finished her day of campaigning.

She was joined by actress Kerry Washington and rocker Jon Bon Jovi, who performed a new song “The People’s House” that he said he wrote shortly after the January 6, 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol by terrorists. pro-Trump insurgents.

“We still have work to do,” Harris said at his rally in Atlanta, adding: “Make no mistake, we will win.”

She also called her campaign and supporters “the promise of America.”

President Joe Biden, who withdrew from the race this summer when it became clear he couldn’t win, was doing his part for Democrats by making what could be his final campaign stop for 2024. Biden , who turns 82 this month, struck a nostalgic tone as he tried to help get out the vote for Harris and running mate Tim Walz during an event at the Carpenters local in Scranton, Pa. .

And, as he has done frequently of late, Biden also went off-script to make particularly direct statements. After criticizing Trump and his supporters on political issues, the president added: “I know some of you are tempted to think he’s a macho guy…but, I’m serious, that’s the type of guy you’d like to hit. the ass.

Walz joined actress Eva Longoria at an engagement event in Las Vegas ahead of the Minnesota governor’s events in Flagstaff and Tucson, Arizona. Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance was also in Arizona and Nevada. First lady Jill Biden was campaigning in Georgia and Hillary Clinton was defending Harris in Tampa, Florida.

Walz visited a few homes in the Las Vegas suburbs. He and Democratic Rep. Dina Titus spoke with a couple who were excited to see the two politicians — and full of hope.

“We’re going to win,” Walz said. “These last days matter and it will be on the sidelines.”

Elsewhere, other voters expressed cautious optimism about the election outcome.

Marzella and Darrell Pittman said they canceled their weekend plans after learning Harris would be in Atlanta and drove four hours from Alabama to attend.

Marzella thinks Harris will win, but Darrell is nervous because many young black men in his life support Trump and are hesitant to vote for a woman for president.

“It’s close, and on the other side, they’ve gotten a lot of our people to believe in that side, just like we believe in Kamala,” he said.

Until the election, “we just vote first and we talk to everyone,” Marzella Pittman said.

Trump supporters were just as passionate about their candidate.

“Mr. Trump arrived in a garbage truck. I arrived in a garbage bag,” said Elmer Baber, who lives in Gastonia, North Carolina and attended the Trump rally. It was a reference to Trump riding a garbage truck after Biden said Trump supporters were ‘trash’ Biden later said he was talking about the rhetoric of a speaker at Trump’s recent event at Madison Square Garden.