Kamala Harris and Donald Trump continued their campaigns on Saturday. They both present themselves as saviors of the United States three days before an election that remains uncertain and whose outcome anguishes the world.
The Democratic vice-president and the Republican billionaire are in full verbal escalation. The climate is particularly electric, with one political-media controversy per day and fears of violence after November 5, especially if the result is extremely close as all the polls predict.
This weekend, Kamala Harris is again in the key states which will decide the fate of Tuesday’s election. In Georgia (south), North Carolina (southeast) and Michigan (north), she is trying to convince the last undecided people that she is the “antidote” to the former Republican president, as he said on Friday his running mate Tim Walz.
Friday evening, during three meetings in a row in Wisconsin, another crucial state in the Great Lakes region, she called for “turning the page on a decade of Donald Trump” who has upset American democracy and “has exhausted us “.
Manifestations
The populist tribune, with his increasingly authoritarian rhetoric, is going to campaign rallies on Saturday in Virginia and North Carolina.
In the latter state, in Gastonia, he once again painted a black picture of the United States, which would be “occupied” by millions of illegal migrants, the “worst murderers” released from all the “prisons in the world” and ” mental asylums. He promised to expel them, asserting conversely that if his rival wins, the country will be transformed into “a sordid and dangerous refugee camp”.
But he also once again attacked “incompetent” Kamala Harris. “November 5 will be the most important day in American history,” he said.
Women’s demonstrations are organized on Saturday in several American cities, while the defense of the right to abortion is at the heart of the campaign and the Democrats are counting on their votes.
Saturday morning on Fox News, the former president attacked an election ad showing women voting for Kamala Harris without apparently telling their husbands. “Can you imagine a woman not telling her husband who she is voting for?” he said. “This is ridiculous.”
“Bankruptcy” in economic matters
Donald Trump also described the employment figures – published the day before and less good than expected – as a “gift” for his campaign, even if experts point to a temporary fluctuation.
Friday in Michigan, the billionaire accused the administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris of having failed economically. He predicted a “1929-style depression” if his rival is elected.
“Revenge”
The current vice-president further accelerated her campaign in the last final sprint. In her latest campaign clip, she recalls that the inhabitants of the United States “have much more in common than what separates them”.
“I am committed to being a president for all Americans,” she promises in the face of her opponent whom she considers “unstable and obsessed with revenge” for the 2020 election that he never admitted having lost .
“We will win because you know what you are defending,” she said in Atlanta on Saturday, inviting us to “finally turn the page on a decade of Donald Trump” which “has tired us.”
Divided country
The 2024 campaign, scrutinized around the world and particularly in Europe and the Middle East, was extraordinary: in the space of a few weeks this summer, President Joe Biden threw in the towel and gave way to Mrs. Harris while Mr. Trump was the target of two assassination attempts.
Since then, the two adversaries have done everything to appeal to women, young people and African-American, Arab-Muslim and Latin-American electorates.
Tuesday’s election could be so hotly contested, in a politically fractured country, that it could be days before a definitive national result. More than 73 million Americans have already mailed or cast their ballots early.
Donald Trump’s entourage has already begun to fuel rumors of irregularities, even “cheating”, committed during voting operations.
This article was automatically published. Sources: ats / afp
