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At a Pennsylvania rally today, Donald Trump promoted the baseless idea that election cheating and fraud are widespread.

With two days to Election day, it raises the question

of how he and his supporters might react if he loses. And peers Danielle Kurtzleben has more.

As he has at other rallies, Trump continued to sow doubt about Pennsylvania's voting system.

There's only one reason you don't want voter ID. There's only one reason, and that's to cheat. There is no other reason. There's no other reason. And they do cheat. Again, there is no evidence of this. Opponents of voter ID laws argue that they cause voter suppression,

particularly in marginalized communities. Trump also suggested that he didn't have to leave the presidency

after losing in 2020. Speaking of a rise in border crossings under Biden, Trump said,

quote, I shouldn't have left. Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News, lit its Pennsylvania.

And Vice President Harris campaigned in Michigan at several locations today, focusing on black and young voters.

After his speech at a church in Detroit, Harris addressed Trump's comments on election fraud.

I think that it is a tactic. It is meant to distract from the fact that we have and support

free and fair elections in our country. We did in 2020. He lost. Tomorrow, Harris holds rallies

in Pennsylvania, including Allentown, where more than half the population is Latino.

Trump also has stops in the state as well as rallies

in North Carolina and Michigan. In Gaza City, several Palestinians, including children,

have reportedly been wounded near a clinic that was giving polio vaccinations.

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