In Arizona and Nevada, Kamala Harris is slightly ahead of Donald Trump in the polls. These two key states could swing the outcome of the presidential election on Tuesday, November 5.
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump clashed remotely this Sunday, October 13 in two highly contested American states: the Democratic vice-president seeking at all costs to further mobilize the African-American and Hispanic electorates and the former Republican president hammering home his declarations anti-immigration.
Three weeks before the vote on Tuesday, November 5, the polls are still as close as ever, but several surveys reveal Kamala Harris’ difficulties in attracting votes among black and Latin American voters.
A New York Times/Siena College poll published this Sunday gives him less than 60% of voting intentions in the Hispanic community (in full population growth in the United States) which would represent the lowest level for a Democratic candidate in 20 years .
She is credited with only 19 points ahead of her Republican opponent within this strategic electorate in several pivotal states, notably in the South-West, such as Arizona or Nevada, or seven less than Joe Biden in 2020 and 20 fewer than Hillary Clinton in 2016.
On Sunday, the 59-year-old vice-president chose North Carolina, in a region with a large black American population in this state last won in 2008 by a Democrat and which has just been devastated by Hurricane Helene.
At a meeting in Greenville, she attacked her rival, accusing him of a lack of transparency about her state of health and of refusing to have a second debate with her. “Is his (campaign team) afraid that people will see that he is too weak and unstable to lead America?” she asked.
Man arrested in California
Donald Trump, 78, was in Arizona, a state bordering Mexico: he once again used anti-migrant rhetoric, accusing the Biden/Harris government of having “imported an army of illegal migrants” from “dungeons around the world “.
In a speech lasting an hour and a half, he promised that if elected, he would hire 10,000 more border guards and increase their salaries by 10%.
And taking his incendiary rhetoric up a notch, the populist tribune asserted on Fox News that “the National Guard”, or even “military”, should be called in against the “enemy within” in the United States , against “very bad people (…) crazy people, far-left weirdos”.
In this ultra-tense climate, the authorities announced on Sunday the arrest and release on bail on Saturday of a man for illegal possession of several weapons, while he was near a Donald Trump meeting in California. The former president, who was targeted by two assassination attempts, “was not in danger”, according to the FBI federal police.
