These are the last crucial hours of an incredible campaign for the White House: Kamala Harris and Donald Trump face off in final electoral rallies, on the eve of a vote with critical issues for the United States and the rest of the world. world.
This 2024 American presidential election sees two radically opposed personalities, separated by almost two decades.
>> Read also: Three days before the American presidential election, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump redouble their efforts
On one side, the current Democratic vice-president, who in July replaced aging President Joe Biden at short notice. Kamala Harris, 60, can become on Tuesday the first woman to lead the leading economic and military power on the planet.
On the other, former Republican President Donald Trump, 78, author of a spectacular political comeback after leaving the White House in 2021 in a chaotic context, having escaped two impeachment procedures and having been convicted in court.
Peppered with unimaginable twists and turns, first and foremost two assassination attempts on the septuagenarian, this campaign which is ending has also been marked by all the escalations in a fractured country.
>> Details from 12:45 p.m. on the final moments of the campaign:
An extremely close vote
Each of the two rivals says they are confident in their victory. But, in reality, the competition is so close that only a few tens of thousands of votes could decide the outcome of the election.
These votes are to be won in seven well-identified pivotal states, which the two contenders for the White House have tirelessly traveled for months, spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
Fear of violence
Nearly 80 million Americans, including Kamala Harris, have already voted early, out of 244 million voters.
The presidential election generates as much suspense over the result of the vote as over the post-election period, Donald Trump, who never acknowledged his defeat in 2020 and whose supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, having already began to question the integrity of voting operations.
Both camps have already initiated dozens of legal actions, while two out of three Americans fear an eruption of violence in the wake of November 5.
