Until the last hour of the last day. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump continue their intense remote duel for the White House on Friday, without straying too far since the two candidates each met their supporters in Milwaukee, the largest city in Wisconsin.
The Democrat will receive the support on stage of the famous rapper Cardi B, after having recently obtained that of Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Lopez and even basketball superstar LeBron James.
The Republican should continue to praise the latest gaffe of President Joe Biden, who described Trumpist supporters as “garbage”, before correcting himself.
Wisconsin is a symbol of the unpredictability of this election, so close that it risks coming down to a few tens of thousands of votes.
This state overlooking Lake Michigan swung for Donald Trump in 2016, then for Joe Biden in 2020, with less than a percentage point each time.
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The current president won with nearly 21,000 votes in advance, compared to an advantage of around 80,000 votes in Pennsylvania and 154,000 votes in Michigan.
These three historically industrial key states in the north of the country are part of the “blue wall”, the color of the Democrats, that is to say they are supposed to be able to propel the party’s candidate to the White House.
But that was before the irruption of the thunderous Donald Trump into American politics.
The Republican created an explosion by winning Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania eight years ago, before losing them in 2020.
Another four years later, the outcome of the battle will take place in a pocket handkerchief.
Four days before the presidential election and exactly 80 days before the installation of Kamala Harris or Donald Trump in the Oval Office, tension continues to rise.
Donald Trump’s camp has already started to fuel the idea on social networks that irregularities were being committed in the voting operations.
“If we manage to keep cheating at a low level, we will achieve a huge victory,” Donald Trump said again Thursday evening during a public interview with radical right polemicist Tucker Carlson in Arizona (southwest). ).
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He also accused Ms Harris of being “dumb as hell”. Once again, he claimed that record immigrant arrivals under the Biden-Harris administration have caused a crime wave – something no official statistics show.
At a meeting in Las Vegas (west), the vice-president portrayed the billionaire as an “increasingly unstable man, obsessed with revenge, consumed by grievances, and who aspires to uncontrolled power”.
Two thirds of Americans fear violence and already in Washington, around the White House, businesses are deciding to protect their windows with plywood panels.
Washington police chief Pamela Smith displayed her firmness. “I want to be very clear: we will not tolerate violence of any kind. We will not tolerate any riots,” she warned this week.
Challenge (with AFP)
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