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The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore in New York

Harris v Trump: election campaigns pit the traditionalist against the troll

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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris: ‘She’s acting as the president, he’s acting as the populist,’ a strategist said. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are making their last-ditch pitches to voters, both crisscrossing the swing states furiously enough to rack up millions of airline points if they were flying commercial – but in other respects running two very different styles of campaign.

On Monday last week, Harris was in three battleground states hoping to win over moderate Republicans with a series of traditional campaign events. On the same day, Trump dressed up as a McDonald’s worker to serve French fries in suburban Philadelphia, trolling Harris’s own experience working at a McDonald’s franchise in the early 1980s.

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