ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump made their final speeches to voters Monday in the same part of Pennsylvania at around the same time, spending the last full day of the presidential campaign in a state that could make or break their chances.

Focusing on the southeastern corner of Pennsylvania, Trump took the stage in Reading, about 30 miles from Allentown, where Harris held her own event about a half-hour later.

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

Indeed, a Trump victory in Pennsylvania, overturning his 19 Electoral College votes, would pierce the Democrats’ “blue wall” and make it harder for Harris to win the 270 votes needed.

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

“We need everyone in Pennsylvania to vote,” she said. “You are going to make the difference in this election.”

In addition to Allentown, Harris visited Scranton — the birthplace of President Joe Biden — and Reading and had planned a stop in Pittsburgh before ending with a late-night rally in Philadelphia that was scheduled to include Lady Gaga And Oprah Winfrey.

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

Trump first visited North Carolina before traveling to Reading. He then traveled 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 location where he concluded his 2016 and 2020 campaigns .

Southeastern Pennsylvania is home to thousands of Latinos, including a large Puerto Rican population. Harris and her allies repeatedly hit Trump over the dig at a comedian in Puerto Rico during the former president’s marquee event at Madison Square Garden. The actor Tony Hinchcliffe, called Puerto Rico 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 so many people — even many Republicans. It was wrong and I think Trump should have apologized to Latinos.”

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

“Will the border be safe? Are you going to reduce crime? 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. »

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

Meanwhile, Trump has been content to talk about his plan to crack down 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, Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez, entered the United States illegally after allegedly killing a woman in his home country of El Salvador.

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

Trump’s victory would make him the first incoming president to be indicted and convicted of a crime, after his secret trial in New York. He will gain the power to end other ongoing federal investigations against him. Trump would also become the second president in history to win non-consecutive terms in the White House, after Grover Cleveland. at the end of the 19th century.

Harris aims to become the first woman, first Black woman and first person of South Asian descent to reach the Oval Office — four years after breaking the same barriers to national office by becoming President Joe Biden’s second-in-command.

The vice president rose to the top of the Democratic field after Biden’s disastrous performance in a June debate that kicked off his tenure. withdrawal from the race — one of the many convulsions that have hit this year’s campaign.

Trump survived an assassination attempt on a man by a few millimeters gathering in Butler, Pennsylvania. His Secret Service Detail foiled a second attempt in Septemberwhen a gunman set up a rifle while Trump played golf at one of his courses in Florida.

Harris, 60, presented herself as a generational shift from Biden, 81, and Trump, 78. She highlighted her support for abortion rights following the 2022 Supreme Court decision that ended the constitutional right to abortion services, and she has regularly highlighted the former president’s role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.