WASHINGTON (AP) — A presidential campaign marred by a felony trial, the ouster of a sitting president and multiple assassination attempts is ending with a final push in a handful of states on the eve of Election Day.

Kamala Harris will spend all of Monday in Pennsylvania, whose 19 electoral votes represent the largest prize among the states expected to decide the Electoral College outcome. The vice president and Democratic nominee will visit working-class neighborhoods like Allentown and conclude with a nightly rally in Philadelphia featuring Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey.

Donald Trump plans four rallies in three states, starting in Raleigh, North Carolina and twice in Pennsylvania with events in Reading and Pittsburgh. The Republican candidate and former president is ending his campaign the same way as the first two: with an event late Monday night in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

About 77 million Americans I have already voted early, but Harris and Trump are pushing to win many millions more supporters on Tuesday. Any outcome on Election Day will result in a historic outcome.

A Trump victory would make him the first new president to be charged and convicted of a crime following his hush-money trial in New York. He will be given the authority to close other federal investigations pending against him. Trump would also be the second president in history to win non-consecutive terms in the White House, after Grover Cleveland in the late 19th century.

Harris is vying to become the first woman, the first Black woman and the first person of South Asian descent to reach the Oval Office, four years after she broke the same barriers to national office by becoming President Joe Biden's running mate.

The vice president rose to the top of the Democratic ticket after Biden's disastrous performance in a June debate set in motion his withdrawal from the race. That was just one of several shocks that hit this year's election campaign.

Trump survived a bullet from a suspected assassin at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, by just millimeters. His intelligence department foiled a second attempt in September when a gunman set up a rifle as Trump was golfing at one of his golf courses in Florida.

Harris, 60, has downplayed the historic nature of her candidacy, which came only after the 81-year-old president ended his re-election bid after his June debate against 78-year-old Trump raised questions about Biden's age.

Instead, Harris portrayed herself as a generational change, emphasizing her support for abortion rights after the 2022 Supreme Court decision that struck down the constitutional right to abortion services and regularly pointing to the former president's role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6 . January. Harris assembled a coalition that ranged from progressives like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York to Republican former Vice President Dick Cheney. He described Trump as a threat to democracy and, towards the end of the election campaign, even embraced the criticism that Trump was aptly described as a “fascist.”

Entering Monday, Harris had mostly stopped mentioning Trump. She promises to solve problems and seek consensus while striking an almost exclusively optimistic tone, reminiscent of the early days of her campaign, when she embraced “the politics of joy” and the campaign theme of “freedom.”

“From the beginning, our campaign hasn’t been about being against something, it’s been about being for something,” Harris said Sunday night at Michigan State University.

Trump renewed his slogans of “Make America Great Again” and “America First” and made his tough approach to immigration and scathing criticism of Harris and Biden the anchor of his case for a second administration. He has accused Democrats of an inflationary economy and promised to lead an economic “golden age,” end international conflicts and seal the U.S. southern border.

But Trump has also often bristled at criminal prosecution after trying to overturn Biden's victory and has repeatedly denigrated the country he seeks to lead again as a “failed nation.” Just on Sunday, he renewed his false claims that the U.S. election was being rigged against him, ruminated about violence against journalists and said he “should not have left” the White House in 2021 – dark twists that further anchor his closing arguments: “Kamala ruined it. I’ll fix it.”

The election is expected to be decided in seven states. Trump won Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin in 2016 but saw them pass to Biden in 2020. North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada join the Sun Belt on the presidential battleground map.

Trump won North Carolina twice and lost Nevada twice. He won Arizona and Georgia in 2016, but saw them slip to Democrats in 2020.

Harris' team has expressed confidence in recent days, citing a wide gender gap in early voting data and research that showed late-deciding voters went her way. They also believe in the strength of their campaign infrastructure. This weekend, more than 90,000 Harris campaign volunteers turned out voters – knocking on more than three million doors in the battleground states. Still, Harris aides insist she remains the underdog.

Trump's team also expressed confidence, arguing that the former president's populist appeal will attract younger and working-class voters across racial and ethnic lines. The idea is that Trump can build an atypical Republican coalition even as other traditional GOP blocs — particularly college-educated voters — become more Democratic.

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AP White House correspondent Zeke Miller contributed to this report.