Kamala Harris took her speedy tour of battleground states to Arizona on Friday, the place she hammered opponent Donald Trump on his favourite situation of immigration, because the Republican used his solely rally of the week to spice up a Senate candidate.

With the presidential election day simply three months away, Trump’s gentle schedule — a rally each 4 or 5 days — contrasts with the hectic program of an opponent virtually 20 years his junior, and together with his personal vigorous campaigning in 2016.

The 78-year-old former president has held simply 5 rallies because the Republican Nationwide Conference concluded in mid-July, one fewer than Harris is staging this week alone. He has not introduced any occasions for subsequent week.

After stops in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, Harris spoke to a packed stadium in Arizona, a racially various state alongside the US border with Mexico that President Joe Biden narrowly gained in 2020 by round 10,000 votes.

Whereas principally hewing to the script she has used all through the week, Harris sharpened her assault on Trump’s immigration report.

“Donald Trump doesn’t need to repair this downside. Be clear about that,” Harris stated.

“He talks an enormous sport about border safety, however he doesn’t stroll the stroll.”

She cited a serious immigration proposal that appeared set to cross Congress after lengthy bipartisan negotiations, however which failed after Trump, cautious of giving Biden a legislative win, got here out in opposition to it early this yr.

“Trump tanked the deal as a result of he thought by doing that it could assist him win an election. However when I’m president, I’ll signal the invoice,” Harris stated to cheers.

“We all know our immigration system is damaged, and we all know what it takes to repair it, complete reform that features sturdy border safety and an earned pathway to citizenship.”

Harris additionally returned to the subject of abortion, a key situation Democrats hope will carry them over the end line in November.

Arizona is one among a number of states that imposed restrictions on the process following the Supreme Court docket’s 2022 reversal of the nationwide proper to abortion.

Trump appointed three of the six justices that voted to overturn the practically half-century Roe v Wade precedent, Harris famous.

“Now in over 20 states in our nation, there’s a Trump abortion ban, many like Arizona, with no exceptions, even for rape or incest,” she stated.

Whereas Harris was rallying with over 15,000 folks in Phoenix, Trump was holding his first of the week within the northern state of Montana.

“I’d reasonably run in opposition to her. I feel she’s simpler to beat I actually do,” he assured the group in a speech that lasted greater than 90 minutes after a late begin.

“I handed her the strongest border in US historical past, she turned it into the worst border invasion within the historical past of the world,” he later added.

Trump justified his cease in Montana, which he’s closely anticipated to win, as a possibility to wrest again management of the Senate from Democrats.

Endorsing Republican candidate Tim Sheehy, Trump stated successful this seat means “we’re going to win the Senate.”

The ex-president, who survived an assassination try at a rally final month, has bristled at questions over his marketing campaign schedule.

In a unexpectedly convened press convention Thursday at his house in south Florida, he stated he had been absent from battleground states as a result of he was “main by so much and since I’m letting their conference undergo,” a reference to the Democratic Nationwide Conference, which doesn’t finish till August 22.

Trump appeared on observe to win again the White Home earlier than Biden dropped out of the race on July 21, however Harris has made huge good points since changing the president on the prime of the ticket and asserting Tim Walz, Minnesota’s governor, as her operating mate.

Her rise seems to have wrongfooted Trump, who dismissed her surging polling numbers as he held court docket in entrance of journalists at his Mar-a-Lago property for a freewheeling hour-plus information convention.

He complained about protection of Harris’s giant crowds and assailed her for avoiding interviews.

And in a weird second that made headlines, he associated an anecdote a few helicopter near-miss that by no means occurred, by which he appeared to confuse former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown with Jerry Brown, California’s governor for a lot of the 2010s.

After Arizona, Harris heads to neighboring Nevada.

Highlighting the momentum shift within the race, election forecaster Prepare dinner Political Report modified its outlook for each states this week from “lean Republican” to “toss up”.