One month before the presidential election, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are focusing their attention more than ever on voters who are still undecided, particularly in the handful of decisive states in the race for the White House.
Republican candidate and former President Donald Trump is visiting the state of Wisconsin (north) this Sunday, while his Democratic rival Kamala Harris is launching a week of media blitz with all-out interviews.
Opinion polls show the Republican and Democratic candidates neck and neck, fueling a frantic race to try to convince every voter in the seven so-called “key” states which will decide the outcome of the November 5 election.
The indirect universal suffrage voting method means that in the United States, the presidential election is not decided by the votes cast throughout the country, but by those of electors designated by each state.
Thus, from Michigan to Arizona via Nevada, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are concentrating their campaigns there, with victory having to be decided by a few tens of thousands of votes. close.
Donald Trump lost Wisconsin in 2020 to Joe Biden. This Sunday will be his fourth visit to this state in eight days.
The vice-president went there last Thursday, to Ripon, where the Republican Party was born, where she appeared with Republican Liz Cheney, a figure of the American anti-Trump right.
Trump combative
The 78-year-old Republican tycoon’s trip to Wisconsin follows his triumphant return on Saturday to Butler, Pennsylvania, where he narrowly escaped an assassination attempt on July 13.
Under high security, he assured in a provocative tone that even if the shooter had tried to “silence”he would not give up “Never”, under the cries of activists calling on him to “fight, fight, fight”.
“For the past eight years, those who want to stop us have slandered me, tried to impeach me, sued me, tried to take away my ballots and, who knows, maybe even tried to kill myself, but I never stopped fighting for you and I never will.” he said.
Donald Trump repeated false allegations, also relayed by Elon Musk, according to which the Biden-Harris administration had redirected aid funds intended for regions devastated by Hurricane Helen to devote them to programs for migrants.
At the same time, the vice president was in North Carolina on Saturday, where she met with rescuers and residents of one of the regions hardest hit by Helen, which ravaged a half-dozen states with more than 220 dead.
Obama and Renfort
The 59-year-old vice-president is scheduled to appear throughout the week on various prime-time television and radio shows. She has been criticized for having, according to her detractors, abandoned interviews since she was nominated as the Democratic candidate after Joe Biden dropped out.
Kamala Harris begins this media blitz on Sunday by participating in the very popular podcast, “Call Her Daddy”. It should largely focus on reproductive rights, one of the hot topics of the electoral campaign.
Later this week, she will be a guest on ABC’s “The View,” as well as “The Howard Stern Show” and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” which are generally considered to be favorable to his campaign. The vice-president will also campaign in the states of Nevada and Arizona, in the western United States.
In the meantime, she will be able to count on strong support in the person of Barack Obama.
Still very popular, the first black president in the history of the United States will go on the ground in several key states between now and the vote, starting with Pittsburgh on Thursday, the industrial bastion of Pennsylvania.
This northeastern state is generally considered the most important of the key states and could well decide on November 5 the name of the next tenant of the White House.
At 63, Barack Obama remains one of the most influential voices within the Democratic electorate and has already raised more than $76 million in campaign funds this year, but he had not yet hit the pavement. campaign.
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