A video of Vice President Kamala Harris being asked “Will you marry me?” during a campaign stop in Michigan on Friday has taken off online.
As the 2024 presidential race enters its final stretch, both campaigns are working relentlessly to win over the remaining undecided voters in crucial battleground states, where polling data shows very tight races.
The vice president was making her sixth trip to Michigan since she became the candidate, stopping in Grand Rapids’ Riverside Park, then to Lansing to speak to a room full of union autoworkers before ending with an evening rally at the Oakland County Expo Center.
In a video posted to TikTok on Friday by user clipsofkamala, an attendee at the rally is heard asking the vice president, “Will you marry me?” Harris replied, “I’m married happily! But there’s tons of single women here or men, whatever you prefer!”
Newsweek has reached out to Harris’ campaign via email for comment.
The video has received over 600,000 views and 100,000 likes.
The interaction has since spread across social media. An X (formerly Twitter) user, notcapnamerica, shared the clip, which has garnered over 1.1 million views. The video was also shared by the X account Republicans Against Trump, garnering over 33,000 views.
Meanwhile, Trump has also been campaigning in the battleground state. He attended an economic roundtable event in Oakland County on Friday and held a rally in Detroit later that day.
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Seven battleground states, including Michigan, will play a key role in determining the result of the presidential race. This is because the election is decided in the Electoral College, which awards each state a certain number of electoral votes based on population. A presidential candidate needs to secure 270 electoral votes for victory, and winning the national popular vote does not guarantee success. Surveys from battleground states may be more telling than national polls.
According to FiveThirtyEight’s poll tracker, as of Saturday Harris is marginally ahead of Trump in Michigan by 0.5 points, with 47.6 percent to the former president’s 47.1 percent. Pollster Nate Silver‘s tracker puts her 0.7 points ahead.
Meanwhile, the RealClearPolitics tracker shows that Trump is ahead in the state by 0.9 points, with the former president overtaking Harris’ lead on October 9.
Individual polls have shown that the race is just as tight. The most recent RMG Research/Napolitan Institute poll, conducted between October 10 and 16, shows that the two candidates were tied. Recent polls by Mitchell Research and Communications and Redfield & Wilton Strategies showed the race tied when third-party candidates were included.
Other polls have shown Harris and Trump within 1 or 2 points of each other—well within the margin of error. For example, the latest Morning Consult poll, conducted between October 6 and 15 among 1,065 likely voters, put Harris ahead by 2 points—within the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Another poll, conducted by Insider Advantage between October 8 and 9 among 800 likely voters, showed that Trump was 2 points ahead. The poll had a margin of error of 3.7 percent.
