Kamala Harris turns to Beyoncé and Obama as Trump sees a surge of momentum and a lead in the national polls

Kamala Harris fans left her star-studded rally early on Thursday evening, with just eleven days until the election and polls showing the tide turning towards Donald Trump.

The rivals in the presidential race campaigned in battleground states to make their final pleas to undecided voters in what will be one of the closest elections in history.

A record 29 million people have voted early in person or by mail in a campaign that will go all the way.

The vice president enlists political powerhouses and celebrities to help her with her closing arguments. Beyoncé Knowles will perform with her in Texas on Friday.

But her blockbuster lineup of Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen, Samuel L. Jackson and Spike Lee wasn’t enough to convince hundreds of supporters to stay for her speech in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Democrat took to the stage an hour late in the battleground state to claim Trump wants to become a dictator when he returns to the White House and level accusations that he wanted his generals to resemble Adolf Hitler’s.

After Springsteen performed “Dancing in the Dark” and portrayed Trump as a wannabe tyrant, Harris continued her recent strategy of directly attacking her opponent and suggesting he would lead a fascist government.

But as she spoke, members of the crowd headed for the exit, capping off a day that showed the cliffhanger presidential election could be moving away from her.

A victory in Georgia is crucial for both candidates on their way to winning the presidential election on November 5.

Polls show the race is essentially a coin toss, with Trump and Harris separated by the narrowest of margins in the seven states that will decide who wins.

But on Thursday, seven polls showed the Republican has the momentum in the final stretch of the campaign.

Trump took the stage in Arizona — another critical swing state — just before Harris and accused her of turning the United States into a “dumpster” because of her open border policies that led to a historic surge of migrants crossing from Mexico.

The former president described the US as a human “dumping ground”, hours after polls showed him taking a national lead over Harris for the first time.

A Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday shows the Republican presidential candidate with a three-point lead over the vice president nationally.

According to the poll, Trump has 47 percent and Harris 45 percent among registered voters. That’s a reversal from the Wall Street Journal’s August polls.

In the CNBC All-America Economic Survey, Trump also leads 48 to 46 percent.

In the seven battleground states likely to decide the election, the CNBC poll shows Trump with a 48 percent lead among voters, compared to Harris’ 47 percent.

In that poll, economic issues remain the biggest concern for voters. When it comes to prioritizing inflation, the economy and the needs of the middle class, Trump has a strong advantage.

The poll found that 42 percent of voters said they would be better off financially if Trump wins, compared to just 24 percent who said the same if Harris wins.

Another 29 percent said their financial situation will not change regardless of who wins the White House.

Late Thursday night, an Emerson College poll showed Harris with just a three-point lead over Trump in New Hampshire — a state she is expected to win comfortably.

According to the Emerson College survey, Harris is at 50 percent and Trump at 47 percent, with two percent of Granite State voters saying they would vote for “someone else.”

The result is alarming for Harris, who is expected in many models to win the state.

The ‘Harris’ margin among women is similar to Biden’s in 2020 — however, male voters have moved about two points toward Trump,” said Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling.

“Additionally, Harris is underperforming among independent voters under Biden’s support in 2020, breaking for Harris by 13 points but for Biden by about double that number.”

But millions of Americans still have to vote and the margins are razor-thin.

CNN senior data analyst Harry Enten said Thursday that there is a good chance that one of the candidates will wipe out all the swing states in a blowout.

On Thursday night, after Obama spoke, Harris took the stage, but her usual walk-on song was not played, leaving the 60-year-old entering without the same energy as at other rallies.

While the vast majority of attendees remained in the 15,000-seat stadium, dozens of people were seen leaving the stands as she spoke.

Harris hugged Obama as he entered and recalled going to Springfield, Illinois, 17 years ago to support Obama’s bid for president, at the top of her speech. She said his support and friendship mean the world.

The vice president also vowed to win the election, borrowing a line from Obama’s own successful campaign declaring “yes, we can” as the crowd chanted back the rallying cry used in 2008.

Before Harris took the stage, Obama gave his own speech, similar to those the former Democratic president has given across the country.

He warned that Trump is behaving “so crazy” that people have become accustomed to it and issued a strong warning against the ex-president. He called him ‘crazy’ and a ‘wanna be king’.

Obama pointed out that Trump’s former White House chief of staff John Kelly recently claimed in an interview that Trump said he wanted his generals to be like Hitler’s generals.

Obama said the rule of thumb is “don’t say you want to do something like Hitler” and call it “just good political advice.”

The former president praised Gen. Mark Milley and Gen. John Kelly, who have spoken out against the former Republican president, as serious people.