Key issues that will determine if Donald Trump or Kamala Harris wins the US election

This presidential campaign has many people in doubt over a clear winner, but Donald Trump and Kamala Harris’ stance on these top issues give away some clues.

Kamala Harris wants to “build the wall” and Donald Trump touts himself as the “father of IVF”.

That’s how important immigration and abortion are to winning the 2024 US election.

As the presidential race comes down to the wire in a statistical tie, Mr Trump and Ms Harris are sounding like the other as they attempt to blunt the impact from their opponent’s greatest strength.

For years Mr Trump was branded a racist, and worse, for building a wall along the southern border with Mexico.

Ms Harris, who called it a “medieval vanity project”, has now pledged to spend hundreds of millions of dollars finishing the job.

Ms Harris has pledged to spend hundreds of millions of dollars finishing the US-Mexican border wall. Picture: AFP

Mr Trump, meanwhile, touted how “honoured” he was to select the Supreme Court justices who overturned the Roe v Wade Judgement and empowered state legislatures to pass abortion laws.

Now he has pledged to veto a national abortion ban and to protect women’s healthcare that could be impacted by the Supreme Court precedent.

The swing state of Arizona, with it’s 11 electoral college votes, brings each issue into sharp relief with two referendums on the ballot in November.

In addition to voting for Mr Trump or Ms Harris, Arizonians will decide whether to enshrine abortion and the enforcement of immigration law into its state constitution.

Joe Biden won Arizona in 2020 by just 10,500 votes, leaving the state essentially up for grabs to whoever can convince a small slither of undecideds that either immigration or abortion is most important the issue of their time.

While Ms Harris vowed to build the wall, essentially ceding the argument on immigration, Mr Trump has gone further to pledge the largest mass deportation of illegal aliens in the history of the country.

He announced a fund, from the seized assets of immigrant gangs and drug cartels, for the victims of migrant crime.

He also called for the immediate death penalty for illegal immigrants convicted of murder, following the high-profile killings of college student Laken Riley, and 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray.

Arizona’s immigration referendum, called Proposition 314, would give police rights to question, arrest, detain and prosecute anyone illegally entering the United States across the Mexico-Arizona.

Mr Trump wants to pass abortion laws. Picture: AFP

Mr Trump is ahead in Arizona by +2.5 points at 49.5 per cent to Ms Harris at 47 per cent, according to the RCP average of the swing state’s polls.

While she is behind in the polls, Ms Harris is ahead in the single issue motivating one of the election’ largest blocks of high propensity voters: Suburban. White. Women.

Book-ending her campaign with Beyoncé’s “Freedom” anthem to represent the bodily autonomy of women, Ms Harris has vowed to codify Roe v Wade into federal law.

She has gone even further, vowing to end the “filibuster” in the Senate to pass the legislation.

Back in Arizona, Proposition 139 on the ballot would amend the state constitution to enshrine the “fundamental right to abortion”.

The state already allows abortion up to the 15th week in a law passed, by Republicans, in early 2022. But in April, the Supreme Court revived a so-called “zombie law” from 1864 that outlawed almost all abortion under the punishment of prison time.

The law was repealed, again by Republicans, but the spectre of abortion bans remains massively motivating in both Arizona and the six other swing states that will decide whether Mr Trump or Ms Harris sits in the Oval Office.