(Aurora) Donald Trump will continue to hammer home his violent anti-migrant message on Friday, while his rival Kamala Harris calls Barack Obama and Bill Clinton to the rescue to try to regain momentum in the home stretch of the campaign.
Published at 12:34 p.m.
Jason CONNOLLY with Aurélia END in Washington
Agence France-Presse
The former Republican president is going to a small town in Colorado, Aurora, which hit the headlines because of a video broadcast repeatedly this summer by the Trumpist sphere, where we see armed Latin Americans forcing apartments.
The billionaire presents from Aurora as a “war zone” emblematic of the wave of crime caused according to him in the United States by an uncontrolled influx of irregular migrants – which no official statistics show.
“Getting them out will be a bloody story,” Trump said at a rally last month. “It won’t be easy, but we will get there. »
The city’s mayor, Mike Coffman, himself a Republican, has already pointed out that the apocalyptic portrayal of Aurora is a gross exaggeration.
“False” claims
The rumors shared on social networks, according to which the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had “taken control” of Aurora “are simply false”, he notably corrected.
Contacted by AFP, local police explain that some gang members are present in town, but speak of a handful of isolated incidents.
Donald Trump had already adopted a false claim that Haitian immigrants ate dogs and cats, making it one of the most striking conspiracy theories of this tense, and extremely indecisive, race for the White House.
With his violent speeches, evoking the “bad genes” of migrants who would “poison the blood” of the United States, he hopes to mobilize the electorate of certain undecided states in the southwest, such as Arizona, where Kamala Harris will be on Friday.
Arizona is one of seven key states likely to swing the November 5 presidential election.
To better plow these “swing states”, the vice-president, whose party shows a certain feverishness in the face of still very close polls, is resorting to heavyweights: Barack Obama, who has already won the recall for her in Pennsylvania on Thursday, will soon go to Arizona and Nevada.
PHOTO MATT FREED, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Former President Barack Obama attends a rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 10, 2024.
Another former Democratic president, Bill Clinton, will campaign in Georgia.
Hillary Clinton’s warning
Hillary Clinton, former secretary of state, warns in an interview broadcast Friday morning that Kamala Harris must “be prepared for last-minute surprises in October” from her Republican rival.
The Democrat, an unsuccessful candidate against Donald Trump in 2016, was notably confronted, shortly before the election, with the dissemination by WikiLeaks of thousands of emails from her campaign team, obtained according to the CIA from Russian agents.
Kamala Harris, who firmly relies on the world of showbiz and entertainment, also makes the front page of Friday Voguethe famous magazine of the very influential Anna Wintour, which supports her campaign.
The vice-president is scheduled to travel to North Carolina this weekend and then to Pennsylvania on Monday.
More key states, like Nevada where Donald Trump will go on Friday, before going to Arizona on Sunday.
But the former president also wants to show himself in Democratic lands, where he hopes to make media hits instead of grabbing votes.
He will be seen on Sunday in California at Coachella, a town known for a popular music festival, before a gathering at the end of October in New York’s most emblematic venue, Madison Square Garden.
