The 59-year-old Democrat, who expects Donald Trump to “tell a lot of lies” during the debate scheduled for Tuesday, September 10, wants to attack her opponent as a man “who fights for his own interests, not for the American people.”
Kamala Harris arrived in Philadelphia on Monday, September 9, on the eve of her highly anticipated debate against Donald Trump, in a presidential election that all the polls predict will be extremely close.
The vice president landed late this afternoon in this Pennsylvania city where American democracy was born. The former Republican president will go there on Tuesday, around 6:30 p.m. local time, just a few hours before the confrontation organized by ABC in this decisive state in view of the November 5 election.
In an interview recorded last week, an excerpt of which was broadcast on X by her camp on Monday, Kamala Harris believes that her rival will use “his old, hackneyed recipes in front of the cameras. He has no limits in his baseness and we must be prepared for that.”
A crucial debate
Before this announced highlight of an extraordinary campaign, completely turned upside down by the withdrawal in July of President Joe Biden, the Democratic camp also released a new video on Monday compiling violent criticism from former big names in Donald Trump’s administration, including former Vice President Mike Pence, describing the 78-year-old billionaire as a “danger” to the country.
A more detailed version of the program of Kamala Harris, who is campaigning on a promise of a “new path” but who has so far only distilled a few concrete proposals, has just been put online.
The former Republican president has made a series of public appearances while his rival has spent most of the last three days holed up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with her preparation team, only going out for a walk with her husband Doug Emhoff or to shop at a grocery store.
On Saturday, the Republican warned that once he returned to the White House, he would impose “long prison sentences” on anyone he believed planned to “cheat” in November.
Donald Trump, who is being prosecuted for seeking to overturn the results of the last election, has not committed to conceding defeat.
Pennsylvania, with its 19 electoral college votes and its tendency to swing from one camp to the other, is one of the most coveted “swing states”. Donald Trump narrowly won the state in 2016 and lost it by a whisker in 2020. Like the two previous presidential elections, the 2024 election could be decided by a few thousand votes in some strategic counties in six or seven swing states, due to the voting method that is based on indirect universal suffrage.
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