Kamala Harris held a rally in Las Vegas on Sunday evening as the state, with six Electoral College votes, becomes increasingly important in a presidential race that polls hardly favor either candidate.

Both the vice president and Donald Trump have made regular trips to Nevada, but Harris’ meeting comes two days after she visits the U.S.-Mexico border, a vulnerable issue for Democrats that Harris wants to defuse.

Before the raucous Las Vegas crowd estimated at 7,500 people, Harris reiterated her criticism of Trump for refusing another debate, saying: “The American people have a right to hear us talk about the issues. And as you say here in Las Vegas, I’m all in. I’m all in.”

Harris offered her condolences for those affected by Hurricane Helene, and her campaign said she would visit affected areas as soon as doing so would not disrupt the emergency response to the storm that has hit the southeastern part of the country.

“We will support these communities for as long as it takes to ensure they can recover and rebuild,” Harris said Sunday.

On Friday, Harris walked past a towering, rust-colored border wall topped with razor wire in Douglas, Arizona, and met with federal authorities to discuss illegal border crossings and fentanyl smuggling.

At a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania on Sunday, the former president tried to blame Harris for the opioid epidemic. “She even wants to legalize fentanyl,” he said.

Six in 10 Americans consider immigration “very important,” according to the Pew Research Center, and other polls show voters trust Trump can tackle the issue more effectively than Harris.

In contrast, fewer than half of voters (40%) said abortion, Republicans’ top vulnerability, was a very important issue to their vote.

In a speech in San Francisco on Saturday, Harris said the “race is as close as it can be” and described it as “a race with a margin of error.” The Democratic candidate added that she felt like she was the underdog.

Democrats have also begun testing a new strategy to appeal to younger voters, including visitors to Las Vegas with its long-standing reputation for drunkenness, with reports of what they call “Trump’s tequila tax,” which they say them could come as a result of proposed imports. rates.

Harris’ campaign through Las Vegas comes as both candidates have said they plan to end the tip tax. Trump presented his proposal in the city in June; Harris used her own rally in August to make the same pledge.

The issue is echoed in Las Vegas, which employs about 60,000 hospitality workers. The Culinary Union of Nevada has endorsed Harris.

Ted Pappageorge, the culinary union’s secretary-treasurer, told the Associated Press that the union supported Harris’ proposal because it promised to address what his union calls “subminimum wages.”

“That shows she means it,” Pappageorge said.

Trump was at the same location in Las Vegas where Harris spoke earlier this month. In that speech he called his opponent the “so-called president of the invasion”.