Crossing Pennsylvania, again and again: Kamala Harris and Donald Trump set course again on Monday for this crucial state for the presidential election, the Democrat targeting her efforts this week on the black electorate.
Three weeks before the November 5 election, the vice-president will be in a meeting at the end of the day in the city of Erie (north-east), on the shores of the lake of the same name.
His campaign team unveiled a series of proposals on Monday intended to directly benefit African-American men.
The former California prosecutor is in fact lagging behind in the polls among this category of voters, compared to her Democratic predecessors engaged in the race for the White House.
This program aims to help black men launch their small business or trade, in particular through advantageous loans.
The measures also provide for training and apprenticeship aid, as well as a system of favored access to education professions for black men.
Pennsylvania, the key state
Donald Trump plans to talk about economic topics with voters in the town of Oaks, a large suburb of Philadelphia, the largest city in Pennsylvania. In the American election by indirect suffrage, this state will offer a precious windfall of 19 electors to whoever wins.
On Sunday, in Arizona, the populist tribune took his anti-migrant rhetoric up a notch, accusing the Biden/Harris government of having “imported an army of illegal immigrants” from “dungeons all over the world”.
He also said that “the National Guard”, even “military” should be called up against the “enemy within” in the United States, “crazy people, far-left weirdos”.
The outcome of the vote is more uncertain than ever, with the two adversaries neck and neck with the gap seeming to be narrowing further. Two latest polls published this weekend show Donald Trump trimming the very slight lead of his rival, who is struggling to gain enough votes among black and Latin American voters.
Last Thursday, former President Barack Obama scolded his black “brothers”, according to him, who were reluctant to elect a woman for the first time in American history.
Hence the current seduction operation of Kamala Harris, who will be 60 next week, among African-Americans.
After attending a religious service on Sunday in a church attended mainly by African-Americans in Greenville, North Carolina, the vice-president gave an interview, broadcast Monday, to a black journalist, Roland Martin.
She repeated her attack made in recent days on Donald Trump’s lack of transparency regarding his state of fitness.
In Detroit on Tuesday, she will appear on a show hosted by Charlamagne Tha God, a radio host and comedian very popular, particularly among young African-American adults.
If Kamala Harris manages to win Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, she will have practically validated her conquest of the White House.
By Sébastien Blanc with AFP
