Donald Trump further demonized migrants on Friday, promising that his possible return to the White House would sign the “liberation” of an “occupied America”, in total contrast to his rival Kamala Harris and her seduction operation among centrist voters.
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“Today America is known throughout the world as occupied America. We are occupied by a criminal force,” the Republican billionaire told an enthusiastic crowd in Colorado.
November 5, the date of the presidential election, “will be the day of the liberation of America,” he added, to cheers.
The 78-year-old tribune had chosen his setting for his speech almost entirely focused on immigration: Aurora, a small town in the American West that he has falsely brandished for weeks as a city where criminal migrants have “taken power” .
Kamala Harris is a “criminal”, who “imported an army of illegal aliens who are gang members and criminal migrants from the dungeons of the Third World”, he lambasted. “Here we have the most striking example.”
Aurora hit the headlines this summer because of a video broadcast on loop by the Trumpist sphere, where we see armed Latin Americans breaking into apartments.
It has since been presented by Mr. Trump and his allies as a “war zone”. To the great despair of the city’s mayor, Mike Coffman, himself a Republican.
The local elected official recalled on multiple occasions that a handful of incidents had been blown out of proportion. This week, he said that “concerns about Venezuelan gang activity have been greatly exaggerated” and that “Aurora is a very safe city.”
But that doesn’t stop Donald Trump from trying to convince Americans that mass arrivals at the border under the Biden-Harris administration have caused a wave of crime – which no official statistics show.
Extremism versus centrism
To sell his apocalyptic vision of the United States, Mr. Trump also echoed lies last month according to which Haitian migrants were eating dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio.
A catastrophic speech, accompanied by the promise of “mass deportations”, thanks to which he hopes to mobilize the electorate in certain key states, notably Arizona (southwest), where Kamala Harris campaigned on Friday.
Conversely, the Democratic candidate is betting that the election will be won by tilting certain moderates to her side.
The vice-president continued her offensive against the few Republicans who are reluctant to support the former president, promising them not only to appoint a minister from their party in the event of victory, but also to create a mixed council, with Democrats and Republicans, on which to rely.
“I like good ideas wherever they come from!” she said to applause.
Kamala Harris reiterated that a victory would not be “easy” and in fact, in the polls, she remains neck and neck with her rival, particularly in the seven key states which will swing the election.
To better plow these “swing states”, but also to mobilize the male electorate, with whom Donald Trump is more popular, the vice-president is using heavyweights from her party.
Barack Obama will soon go to Arizona and Nevada. Thursday in Pennsylvania, the Democrat asked his black “brothers”, with whom the Republican candidate scores points with his macho posture, to differentiate between “putting people down” and “force”.
Vogue et Madison Square Garden
Another former Democratic president, Bill Clinton, will campaign in Georgia (southeast).
Kamala Harris, who resolutely relies on the world of show business and entertainment, also makes the front page of Vogue on Friday, the magazine of the very influential Anna Wintour, who supports her campaign.
The vice-president is due to travel to North Carolina (southeast) this weekend and then to Pennsylvania (northeast) on Monday.
More “swing states”, like Nevada where Donald Trump will go on Friday, before Arizona on Sunday.
But the former president also wants to show himself on the lands of the Democrats, where he hopes to make media hits if not to grab votes.
He will be seen on Saturday in California at Coachella, a town known for a popular music festival, before an assembly at the end of October in the most emblematic venue in New York, Madison Square Garden.
