On November 5, Americans will go to the polls to elect their new president, who will succeed Joe Biden for four years in the White House. For this new election, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, representatives of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party respectively, are neck and neck. But the 45th President of the United States, who is running for a new term, continues to slip up like this Sunday, September 29, during a meeting in Pennsylvania, where one of his speeches on crime and police violence was sparked a controversy on social networks by referring to the saga American Nightmare.
According to the Washington PostTrump suggested that police should have the right “to a good day of violence, real violence, as it should be” as a possible response to the increase in crime in certain American states. A lunar declaration that Internet users have compared with the plot of the horror saga launched by Blumhouse in 2013. In the first film, which takes place in a dystopian universe, the government authorizes an annual period of twelve hours where all crimes are permitted, including murder.
Several American media, including Forbeshighlighted the connection between Donald Trump’s statement and the fictitious concept ofAmerican Nightmarewhere each “Purge” period of the films ends in bloodshed. The Republican candidate tried to justify his vehement speech by assuring that the police “is not allowed to do her job” in current conditions, before tempering by evoking “just one hour of violence, but real violence”.
Since entering the presidential race in 2015, with the notorious slogan “Make America Great Again”and which he finally won in January 2017, Donald Trump has always made crime in the United States one of the spearheads of his campaign. However, according to an FBI report published a few weeks ago, crime decreased in Uncle Sam’s country between 2022 and 2023, in particular homicides and crimes deemed violent. Obviously, the businessman continues to contest this report during his meetings, even though he is known for his multiple conspiracy theories relayed publicly in his speeches.
The duel between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, which will end at the polls on November 5, is announced as one of the closest in United States History. Since the withdrawal of Joe Biden for a second term last July, the Democratic candidate has continued to gain ground on her opponent. According to a graph of FranceinfoKamala Harris even took the lead at the end of the summer, but they are really the “swing states” (the pivotal states where the population is most divided on voting intentions, but which can turn the tide at the last moment), eight in number for this election, which will make the difference in the end.
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