The Democratic candidate occupies the top half of the cover of New York Magazine, The Republican candidate, for his part, sits below.
She is facing forward, smiling, as if to better illustrate the title that accompanies her photo: “The Happy Plan to Elect Kamala Harris.” He is in profile, more shadowy, enough to probe “the ear and soul of Donald Trump”, as the magazine proclaims.
Eight weeks before the American presidential election, New York magazine has entrusted two of its leading female writers with the task of reporting on the issues at stake in the final sprint of the race for the White House, from both sides.
Women in the countryside
For journalist Rebecca Traister, who wrote the article on Kamala Harris, the movement “organic” support that has crystallized around the Democratic candidate deserves to be examined. A craze that took hold immediately after the announcement of Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race for the White House and that she describes as “a genuine women-led movement that has been built over decades and gained new momentum following Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016” faces Donald Trump.
The movement then got underway in support of the candidate. Kamala Harris “comes with a set of policies relating to housing, care professions, abortion, health and work that[elle] considers it to be inherently, but not exclusively, women’s issues.”
For the journalist, this movement “galvanized by a devastating setback for women’s rights,” The Supreme Court’s repeal of the constitutional right to abortion in 2022 now seeks to rectify this wrong and could, who knows, come November 5 “to usher in a new era of American politics.”
The mended ear
On Donald Trump’s side, it was journalist Olivia Nuzzi who took it upon herself, going to interview the Republican candidate at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. In an article full of baroque details, she goes to the Republican candidate’s bedside and inquires about the state of his injured ear. Trump had been shot in the middle of an election rally in the small town of Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.
[…] - Courrier international
