Kamala Harris is set to deliver remarks in the final full week of the 2024 presidential race at the White House Ellipse where Donald Trump helped incite the Jan. 6, 2021, mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol protesting President Biden’s victory.

Ms. Harris is looking to put a fine point on the driving message of her campaign: that Mr. Trump has proven that he is too selfish and unstable to again lead the nation.

Meanwhile, Mr. Trump will keep his foot on the gas. He plans to kick off the final stretch of campaign week with a rally Monday in Atlanta. The final Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll showed Mr. Trump had a 47% to 43% lead over Ms. Harris, with 8% of likely voters on the fence.

Mr. Trump, who at 78 would be the oldest person elected U.S. president, also has campaign events scheduled this week in the electoral battlegrounds of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Nevada. What’s more, he will try to expand the GOP map with events in Virginia and New Mexico.

“It’s just a turnout contest at this point,” said GOP strategist Alex Conant. “Both candidates will double down on communicating the importance of the election to their respective bases.”

Millions of voters have already cast ballots through the mail or in-person early voting, and both campaigns are urging voters not to wait until Election Day.

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That marks a significant change from 2020 when Mr. Trump waged a relentless war against early voting and Democrats dominated the massive amount of mail-in ballots amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Previewing his closing message, Mr. Trump, in a television ad released Sunday, said the U.S. economy was humming along when he left office thanks to his 2017 tax cuts.

“When I left office, it changed. Inflation destroyed the lives of so many people. Interest rates went from 2% to 10%. And millions of illegal immigrants and traffickers and drugs coming into our country,” Mr. Trump said in the ad. “Our country has gone to hell.”

It set up the contrast between the two campaigns, with Mr. Trump focused on the economy and immigration while Ms. Harris leans into abortion rights and warnings about Mr. Trump posing a threat to American democracy.

A Gallup poll earlier this month found that voters’ top “extremely important” election issues were the economy (52%), democracy in the U.S. (49%), terrorism or national security (45%), types of Supreme Court justices candidates would pick (45%) and immigration (41%).

Ms. Harris has events scheduled in Michigan and Wisconsin — a pair of blue-wall states that she likely needs to win to have any hope of being president — and Nevada and Arizona.

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Speaking in Michigan over the weekend, Ms. Harris said Mr. Trump is responsible for stripping away federal abortion rights. She said she is fighting for the “fundamental freedom of a woman to be able to make decisions about her own body and not have her government telling her what to do.”

Ms. Harris also warned that Mr. Trump has “become more confused, more unstable and more angry” over the past eight years.

“It is clear he has become increasingly unhinged,” she said, urging supporters to visualize their choice for the next commander-in-chief. “It is either Donald Trump in there stewing over his enemies list or me working for you checking off my to-do list.”

On Sunday, Ms. Harris addressed congregants at the Church of Christian Compassion in Philadelphia. She needs a strong turnout from Black voters to win Pennsylvania.

Mr. Trump held a high-profile rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Ms. Harris’ remarks at the Ellipse on Tuesday will be the first from a prominent political figure since Mr. Trump urged his supporters to march to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to call on Congress to stop the certification of the presidential election results, which he insisted was rigged.

According to polls, the race is a jump ball.

The final New York Times/ Sienna College national survey showed that Ms. Harris and Mr. Trump are tied at 48% for the popular vote. 

The neck-and-neck final stretch of the campaign follows a wild three months that saw Mr. Trump survive two assassination attempts, Ms. Harris sub-in for President Biden atop the Democratic ticket and Hurricane Helene devastate western North Carolina.

Mr. Biden, 81, has been mostly relegated to the sidelines. Axios reported that the Harris campaign has kept Mr. Biden at arm’s length and has been reluctant to accept his offers to attend the campaign trail on her behalf.

Ms. Harris, who turned 60 this month, does not plan to appear with Mr. Biden before Election Day.

However, she campaigned with former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama and celebrities, including Beyoncé, Willie Nelson and Bruce Springsteen.

“Our moment right now, it’s time for America to sing a new song,” Beyoncé said at a Harris rally in Houston. “Are you all ready to add your voice to the new American song? Because I am. So let’s do this.”

Ms. Harris will again rely on the music industry this week when she campaigns on Wednesday in Madison, Wisconsin, with music artists Gracie Abrams and Mumford & Sons.