Harris tries to rally moderate Republicans, Trump persists in lying about the 2020 election – 04/10/2024 at 04:35

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris appeared Thursday with Republican Liz Cheney, who called on Americans to choose the side of “the truth” rather than Donald Trump, who is still hammering home the lie that the 2020 election would have been stolen from him.

In the key state of Wisconsin (northeast), the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney played luxury spokesperson for Kamala Harris in Ripon, where the Republican Party was imagined in 1854.

“I ask you to stand in the truth, to reject the depraved cruelty of Donald Trump. And I ask you instead to help us elect Kamala Harris to the presidency,” launched Ms. Cheney, to cheers.

Ms Harris, who is leading a centrist campaign aimed at moderates, took the opportunity to hail this figure of the American right as a “true patriot”.

She also praised the “conviction to tell the truth” of this Republican, a key figure in the commission of inquiry into the invasion of the Capitol on January 6, 2021 by supporters of Mr. Trump.

With 33 days to go before the November election, the vice-president and Democratic candidate hopes that this kind of support from the conservative camp can influence the few remaining undecided voters.

Donald Trump “irresponsibly tramples on our democratic values”, she attacked, highlighting the risks of his possible return to power. “He refused to accept the will of the people and the results of an election that was free and fair.”

– Violent rhetoric –

This pas de deux between the two women came the day after the publication by the courts of new evidence against the ex-president.

“With accomplices acting in a private capacity, (Donald Trump) launched a series of increasingly desperate attempts to overturn the result of the election,” said the special prosecutor who is investigating this case at the federal level on Wednesday.

At a meeting Thursday in Michigan, another key manufacturing state in the “rust belt,” Mr. Trump continued to cling to the lies he has been feeding for four years.

“We won in 2020. The election was rigged,” he assured, against all evidence.

The billionaire once again publicly insulted Ms. Harris, a Democrat, calling her “crazy” and using the pronoun “he” several times to refer to her.

The tribune knows that the election will undoubtedly be decided by a few tens of thousands of votes, those of voters still undecided in the famous “swing states”. But he is betting that it is not a moderate speech, but his ever more violent rhetoric that will seduce them.

“If you want your country to descend into hell (…) vote for Kamala,” said the 78-year-old candidate, promising to be the “champion” of the workers.

– Melania détone –

The Republican touted his plans for heavy import taxes, meant to protect American industries, and continued his violent attacks on immigration.

Without proof, he accused President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris of squandering funds intended for victims of natural disasters, while Hurricane Helene has just ravaged regions of the southeast of the United States, for the benefit of immigrants in irregular situation who would receive “purchase vouchers” and be accommodated “in luxury hotels”.

During his meeting, however, he did not mention the upcoming memoirs of his wife Melania Trump, in which she firmly supports the right to abortion.

“Why would anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her body?” asks the former First Lady, according to the good sheets revealed by the Guardian.

The book stands out and is already to the delight of Kamala Harris’ campaign team, which has made the issue of reproductive rights a central theme. The Democrat accuses Mr. Trump of being the architect of the decline in abortion rights in the United States.

The Republican candidate has often congratulated himself on having appointed three conservative judges to the Supreme Court, who ended the constitutional guarantee of abortion after his mandate.

On Fox News, he quickly dispatched his apparent disagreement with his wife. “We talked about it and I told him: ‘You have to write what you believe in, I’m not going to tell you what you have to do’,” Mr. Trump said on the conservative channel.