One month from the American presidentialJoe Biden expressed concern on Friday about the risk that the vote would not be “peaceful”, due to the behavior of Republican candidate Donald Trump.
“The things that Trump said and the things he said last time when he didn’t like the result of the election were very dangerous,” warned the American president. “So I’m worried about what they’re going to do,” during the vote, he said during an impromptu exchange with journalists in the White House press room.
The election of November 5, opposing the Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris to the old Republican leader Donald Trump looks as indecisive as it is tense. As the vote approaches, illustrations of an American society on edge are omnipresent. The electoral centers of the most contested counties, targets of high tensions four years ago, have turned into fortresses, protected by wrought iron fences and metal detectors.
The certification of the results of the presidential election at the Capitol, the scene on January 6, 2021 of an attack by unleashed Trumpists, will this time be supervised by the highest level of security possible for an official event. The fear is that, once again, the vote will be so close that it will take not hours, but days to declare a winner.
Donald Trump, who never admitted his defeat in 2020, has already laid the first stones of a new protest, accusing meeting after meeting the Democrats of “cheating like hell”. The Republican candidate also attributed the second assassination attempt of which he was the victim to the “rhetoric” of his adversaries, while the Democrats, on the contrary, accuse him of being the instigator of a sometimes unbreathable political climate.
The septuagenarian Republican will also return on Saturday to the scene of the first assassination attempt, when he narrowly escaped being shot by a killer in July, in the town of Butler in Pennsylvania, for a new campaign meeting. His team has already announced the presence of a distinguished guest: Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, owner of X, Tesla, and even SpaceX. Before that, Donald Trump will be in Georgia on Friday, a state hard hit by Hurricane Helene which left more than 200 dead in the United States. He will be accompanied on Friday by Brian Kemp, governor of this southeastern state, which is highly coveted for the presidential election.
Kamala Harris is expected in Michigan, a key state in the Great Lakes region and symbol of industrial decline in the United States from the 1980s. The Democratic candidate began her trip to the large city of Detroit, the cradle of the American automobile industry, where she wants to strengthen her image as a pro-union candidate.
