Kamala Harris and Donald Trump continue their campaign on Saturday, November 2, both presenting 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, who could become the first female president of the United States, and the Republican billionaire, who dreams of returning to the White House, are in full verbal escalation.
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Fears of violence
The climate is particularly electric, with one political-media controversy per day and fears of violence after Tuesday, November 5, especially if the result is extremely close as all the polls predict.
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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 his running mate Tim Walz said on Friday.
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” which turned American democracy upside down.
The populist tribune, with increasingly authoritarian rhetoric, convicted and indicted in a number of criminal and civil cases, is going to campaign rallies on Saturday in Virginia and North Carolina.
“Refugee camp”
In the latter state, in Gastonia, he again painted a black picture of the United States, which would be “busy” by millions of illegal migrants, “worst murderers” out of all the “prisons of the world” and “mental asylums”. He promised to expel them, asserting on the contrary that if his rival wins, the country will be transformed into “a sordid and dangerous refugee camp”.
But he also attacked Kamala Harris again“incompetent”. “November 5 will be the most important day in American history”he declared.
Women's demonstrations are organized on Saturday in several American cities, while the defense of the right to abortion has been at the heart of the campaign and the Democrats are counting on their votes.
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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 wife not telling her husband who she is voting for? »Donald Trump was offended. “It’s ridiculous. »
He also described the employment figures – published the day before and less good than expected – as ” gift “ for his campaign, even if experts point to a temporary fluctuation. And predicted a “depression of the type of 1929” if his rival is elected.
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”.
“Revenge”
“I am committed to being a president for all Americans”she promises in front of her adversary whom she judges “unstable and obsessed with revenge” of the 2020 election which he never admitted having lost. « We will win because you know what you stand for.”she said in Atlanta on Saturday, inviting “finally turning the page on a decade of Donald Trump that has tired us”.
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, 81, threw in the towel and left instead Kamala Harris and Donald Trump were the targets 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 so anticipated. Donald Trump's entourage has already begun to fuel rumors of irregularities, even “cheating”, committed during voting operations.
