Seven key states likely to decide result

WASHINGTON, Oct 07 (AFP): With just one month left in a deadlocked US presidential election, Donald Trump urged supporters Sunday in battleground Wisconsin to get out the vote, as Kamala Harris kicked off a week-long media interview blitz with a focus on reproductive rights.

Polls have the Republican and Democrat candidates neck and neck, fuelling a high-cost, high-intensity scramble for each and every wavering voter in the seven key states that are likely to decide the outcome on November 5.

Trump lost Wisconsin in 2020 and this was his fourth visit in eight days. Harris was there earlier this week, holding a rally in Ripon, birthplace of the Republican Party, where she appealed to moderate and disgruntled conservatives.

"I'm only asking you to do one thing," Trump told the crowd in the town of Juneau. "Just go out and vote."

Trump also repeated false allegations that the Biden-Harris administration had redirected relief funds for areas devastated by Hurricane Helene and spent it on migrant programs.

Harris, he said, is "someone who steals your wealth and abandons your family when the flood waters rise."

Harris has faced criticism for seemingly avoiding one-on-one interviews with national media since she took over as the Democratic nominee, and Trump hammered away at this Sunday.

"She doesn't do interviews because she can't answer the questions. She can't answer anything," he said.

In her bid to reach key voters, the vice president is taking to the airwaves in the coming week with a host of television, radio and podcast appearances.

Harris began her media flurry with an appearance Sunday on the podcast "Call Her Daddy"-one of the most popular programs on Spotify-that focuses on advice and issues affecting women.

She addressed reproductive rights-which Democrats view as a major vote winner among undecided voters, especially women.

At one point Harris was asked how she felt when she heard Trump, in their presidential debate last month, say that some Democratic states allow the "execution" of babies after birth.