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Just eight days until Election Day.

In the final stretch of the 2024 presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are focused on two pivotal battlegrounds that could decide the race for the White House: Michigan and Georgia.

The Trump campaign scrambled to distance itself from a backlash against racist, vulgar, and sexist comments made by speakers at the former president's Sunday night rally at Madison Square Garden in New York. Harris and President Joe Biden both used the rally to contrast the Democratic campaign with Trump's, as polls continued to show a photo-finish race.

Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz rallied together in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for one of their final pitches to swing state voters. The rally focused on individual freedoms, particularly reproductive rights that they said have been under assault since Roe v. Wade was overturned. Meanwhile, Trump delivered his final pitch to Atlanta voters on Monday evening in an address attacking his political opponents and urged his supporters to vote on Election Day.

Keep up with the USA TODAY Network's live coverage from the campaign trail.This combination of file pictures created on Aug. 3, 2024, shows US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaking on March 26, 2024, in Raleigh, North Carolina, and former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaking in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27, 2024. Turnout in Georgia's populous Fulton County, a Democratic bastion that includes most of the capital, Atlanta, will be crucial in deciding who wins the southern state -- and its coveted 16 electoral college votes. This makes it a country pivotal to both presidential candidates.

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Obama says Trump’s MSG rally featured 'the most sexist, racist, bigoted stereotypes'

Speaking at a Philadelphia rally supporting Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday night, former President Barack Obama ripped into Donald Trump’s rally in New York City.

"So the man holds this big rally at Madison Square Garden, and the warmup speakers were …  trotting out and peddling the most racist, sexist, bigoted stereotypes," Obama said of the former president.

Comedian Tony Hinchliffe, one of the featured speakers, called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage and talked about carving watermelons with a Black friend.