“Murderers and terrorists”: Donald Trump redoubled his attacks on migrants on Friday, accusing his Democratic rival Kamala Harris of wanting to transform the United States into a “refugee camp”, in an increasingly tense campaign for the White House.
“America’s children are at the mercy of barbaric criminals,” the Republican presidential candidate said at a press conference at his golf resort in the suburbs of Los Angeles.
The former president, who has been issuing a series of partly false diatribes against migrants all week, once again brought up the fallacious and racist claim that Haitians steal dogs and cats to eat them in the city of Springfield.
“We are going to organize mass expulsions” in this small town in Ohio, promised the Republican billionaire, pretending to ignore that many of these migrants have a residence permit.
US President Joe Biden on Friday urged Donald Trump to “stop” his attacks on Haitian migrants. “There is no place in America” for such allegations, he added.
The vice president, campaigning in the highly coveted state of Pennsylvania (northeast), did not specifically mention this affair.
But in a rare television interview with a local network, she said of her rival: “Most Americans want a leader who brings us together, not someone who pretends to be a leader and tries to play us off against each other. I think people are exhausted by that approach. I think people want a leader who has common sense and tries to find common ground.”
– “Third World” –
The 78-year-old billionaire has placed immigration, a top concern among voters according to polls, at the heart of his new bid for the White House.
If he wins on November 5, he promises to fight illegal immigration with mass expulsions.
“Kamala is going to turn America into a Third World refugee camp,” he said in a rambling speech before a campaign rally in Nevada.
These are all remarks that caused the Pope, who returned from his tour of Asia, to react. Francis sent the two candidates to the White House back to back, considering that Donald Trump, “who rejects migrants”, and Kamala Harris, who “kills children” by defending the right to abortion, were both “against life”.
Kamala Harris, like her rival, has increased the pace of her campaign, which is very disciplined and well-rehearsed. To the point that the 59-year-old Democrat is being criticized for not taking more risks, beyond her well-rehearsed speeches, in front of generally very enthusiastic assemblies.
After her interview Friday with a local Pennsylvania channel, she is scheduled to have an exchange with the very famous presenter Oprah Winfrey on September 19.
– Conspiracy theory –
When Donald Trump brought up the pet conspiracy theory during their televised debate on Tuesday, she responded by shaking her head vehemently and looking half-amused and half-outraged.
This daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, the first female vice-president of the United States, has never engaged in attacks targeting her identity since the beginning of her campaign, to which she gives a resolutely centrist orientation.
Once again, Kamala Harris, who entered the race with a bang after President Joe Biden withdrew less than two months ago, hammered home on Friday that the election would be “very close” and that she was “not the favorite.”
The candidate, who by all accounts dominated her opponent in their debate on Tuesday, will not be able to count on another confrontation of this type to give her momentum: Donald Trump has in fact opposed a rematch.
In an America that now seems irremediably politically divided, the two candidates are neck and neck in the polls.
As in 2016 and 2020, everything should therefore be decided by a few tens of thousands of votes from undecided voters in six or seven strategic states, regardless of the total number of votes at the national level, since the election is taking place according to the principle of indirect universal suffrage.
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