In a country where the race for the White House usually lasts almost two years, the campaign this time focused on a few weeks between the outgoing Democratic vice-president and the former Republican president.
A frantic race which ends this Tuesday, November 5. The campaign for the American presidential election has been marked by many twists and turns since the summer. In mid-July, Republican candidate Donald Trump was targeted by an assassination attempt in the middle of a meeting. A week later, under pressure from his own camp, the outgoing president, Joe Biden, plunged the country into the unknown by withdrawing his candidacy, before his vice-president, Kamala Harris, took up the torch, instilling a new momentum in the Democratic camp. So many moments that marked the history of the United States.
Trying to convince the undecided in a particularly close duel, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump traveled the country, making numerous trips to the seven key states. Sometimes in small groups, sometimes in front of a crowd of tens of thousands of people, they presented radically opposing visions of America. While 160 million voters are called upon to decide between them at the polls, franceinfo looks back, in images, on the last months of this eventful campaign.
Donald Trump greets the crowd at the end of a rally in Tempe, Arizona, October 24, 2024. (REBECCA NOBLE / AFP)
Kamala Harris refines her speech aboard the vice-presidential helicopter, August 20, 2024, before a meeting in Milwaukee (Wisconsin). (KEVIN LAMARQUE / AFP)
Some 20,000 Republicans gathered at Madison Square Garden in New York to attend a Donald Trump meeting on October 27, 2024. (ANNA MONEYMAKER / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
Donald Trump is protected by the Secret Service after being shot in the ear on July 13, 2024, during a meeting in Butler (Pennsylvania). (ANNA MONEYMAKER / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA)
Kamala Harris speaks with a child before a rally in Houston, Texas, October 25, 2024. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)
Donald Trump speaks in front of the damage caused by Hurricane Helene in Swannanoa, North Carolina, October 21, 2024. (WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
Demonstrators protest against American support for Israel in the war in the Gaza Strip, August 19, 2024, on the sidelines of the Democratic convention in Chicago, Illinois. (ALEX WROBLEWSKI / AFP)
A delegate wears his best “Harris-Walz” hat during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, August 19, 2024. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)
Kamala Harris greets the crowd as she arrives on a stage set up at the Ellipse, a park located near the White House, in Washington, October 29, 2024. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)
Donald Trump serves fries at a McDonald's on October 20, 2024, in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania. (GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA)
Kamala Harris addresses several thousand activists gathered in Madison, Wisconsin on October 30, 2024. (SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA)
Billionaire Elon Musk, fervent supporter of Donald Trump, jumps on stage during a meeting in Butler, Pennsylvania, October 5, 2024. (JIM WATSON/AFP)
Former First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama on stage alongside Kamala Harris on October 26, 2024 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP)
Former President of the United States Barack Obama alongside Kamala Harris during a campaign rally on October 24, 2024 in Clarkston, Georgia. (DREW ANGERER / AFP)
Donald Trump dances on stage during a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, October 15, 2024. (KEVIN DIETSCH / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
A procession of Trumpist supporters, November 3, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida. (GIORGIO VIERA / AFP)
A voter fills out their ballot during early voting in Arlington, Virginia, on September 20, 2024. More than 75 million Americans voted before November 5. (AFP)
