Reinvigorated by the postponement of his legal troubles until after the presidential election, Donald Trump is campaigning on Saturday in the disputed state of Wisconsin, three days before his first major televised duel against Kamala Harris, who is preparing from another key state, Pennsylvania.
Neck and neck in the polls with less than two months to go until Election Day, the two rivals face off Tuesday night in a debate on ABC, a highly anticipated moment after Joe Biden’s disastrous performance on June 27, which led him to throw in the towel and hand over the reins to his vice president.
In the meantime, Donald Trump is going to Mosinee on Saturday, in the heart of Wisconsin in the north of the United States, a state won by the Republican billionaire in 2016 but which Joe Biden narrowly took back from him in 2020.
The 78-year-old candidate plans to attack Kamala Harris on the economy, particularly on inflation during the Biden term. According to polls, the issue remains crucial for American voters and slightly favors Donald Trump, even though the increase in prices remained stable over a year in July, at 2.5%.
– Police union –
The meeting comes a day after a major legal victory for Donald Trump, who obtained a postponement until November 26, after the November 5 vote, of his sentencing in the case of hidden payments to a porn star during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The trial, which had largely disrupted the Republican billionaire’s campaign in the spring, ended at the end of May with a unanimous guilty verdict from the twelve jurors in New York, making Donald Trump the first former president of the United States to be convicted by the criminal justice system.
But the ruling Friday by trial judge Juan Merchan means that American voters will not know when they cast their ballots what sentence their hypothetical future president will receive.
Donald Trump also received the support of a powerful police union on Friday, which he used to redouble his attacks on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on the themes of security and immigration.
Kamala Harris is campaigning on her record and experience as a former attorney general of the State of California, against the man Democrats call a “repeat criminal.”
The Vice President of the United States, whose late entry into the campaign has given new vigor to the Democrats, is preparing for her big duel against Donald Trump from Pittsburgh, in the key state of Pennsylvania, won by a hair’s breadth by the Republican in 2016, then by Joe Biden with a tiny margin in 2020.
The debate is seen as an opportunity for Kamala Harris to gain an advantage over Donald Trump in front of tens of millions of American viewers, but the Democratic candidate is also expected to deliver concrete measures, while she has been criticized for the lack of detail in her proposals.
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