Until the last hour of the last day, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump continued their great remote duel for the White House on Friday, but without straying too far: the two candidates each made an appointment with their supporters in Milwaukee.
In Wisconsin’s largest city, 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.
According to media reports, he also plans to be the first major 2024 presidential candidate to visit Dearborn, Michigan. It is the largest American city with a majority population of Arab origin, an electorate which has relatively detached itself from the Democrats because it is unhappy with the support of the Biden/Harris administration for the war led by Israel in Gaza.
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.
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.
Courting every voice
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 conservative host Tucker Carlson in Arizona.
During that same discussion, he accused Liz Cheney, his political bête noire, of being a “radical warmonger.”
“Let’s put her gun in her hand facing nine barrels of guns shooting at her. Let’s see what she would think. You know, with the guns pointed at her,” said Donald Trump, evoking the image of a firing squad.
Liz Cheney, Donald Trump’s most famous Republican opponent, responded with a message on X.
“This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten death to those who speak unfavorably of them. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel and unstable man who intends to be a tyrant.” .
At a meeting in Las Vegas, Kamala Harris portrayed the billionaire as an “increasingly unstable man, obsessed with revenge, consumed by grievances, and who aspires to uncontrolled power”.
Bad statistics
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.
Kamala Harris will not be able to count on one last piece of good news regarding employment. Indeed, job creation slowed down significantly and much more than expected in October in the United States, under the cumulative effect of strikes and two hurricanes, despite an unemployment rate stable at 4.1%.
This article was automatically published. Sources: ats / afp
