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Less than ten days before the still uncertain American presidential election, Donald Trump plans to fill New York’s legendary Madison Square Garden with red caps on Sunday. Kamala Harris at the same time rakes the field in Philadelphia.
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October 27, 2024 – 4:05 p.m.
(Keystone-ATS) While the Democratic candidate has shown the support of several icons of popular culture in recent days, such as Bruce Springsteen or Beyoncé, Donald Trump is hoping for a show of force with his supporters in “the most famous arena in the world”, where he where the Rolling Stones, Madonna, U2 and the popular NBA and ice hockey teams the Knicks and Rangers play.
For her part, Kamala Harris plans to call for a vote “neighborhood by neighborhood” according to her campaign team, with an emphasis on black and Latino communities, to stock up on votes in Pennsylvania, one of the seven contested states which will be decisive in the election on November 5, one of the closest in the history of the United States according to polls.
In New York, a Democratic bastion where he was born and made his fortune in real estate – several skyscrapers there bear his name – Donald Trump intends to present himself as the “best choice to repair everything that Kamala Harris broke”, according to his campaign team.
A way of once again referring to the record of the Biden administration the vice-president, whom he has continued to attack, amid personal insults (“drugged”, “idiotic”) on inflation, immigration and insecurity.
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The vice-president will respond to him on Tuesday. She will make her own indictment against Trump a stone’s throw from the White House, the place where the latter had harangued his supporters on January 6, 2021 just before they attacked the Capitol.
“I’m doing it here, because I think it’s very important for the American people to think about who will occupy the Oval Office on January 20,” she explained in an interview on CBS on Sunday, referring to the “danger” represented by Donald Trump and his policies.
“His first priority will be people like him” and not “hard-working people, elderly people”.
Sunday at 9 p.m. GMT (10 p.m. in Switzerland), Donald Trump will take the stage, with his omnipresent campaign ally, the multi-billionaire owner of Tesla and X Elon Musk, or the big man of mixed martial arts (MMA) Dana White.
He will perhaps also respond to those who draw a parallel between his speeches with increasingly authoritarian, populist and nationalist leanings, and the choice of Madison Square Garden, the scene of an impressive Nazi rally in 1939.
The 78-year-old Republican, who would be the oldest president in US history to take office if elected, vowed not to be a dictator “except on day one” to close borders American. He also promises to expel millions of migrants from the United States whom he accuses of “poisoning the blood of the country”.
“Take our lives seriously”
Saturday, during a meeting in Pennsylvania, after a stop in another crucial state, Michigan, he again accused “Kamala (Harris) of organizing an invasion of criminal migrants from prisons and psychiatric hospitals around the world , from Venezuela to the Congo. He also accused journalists of being “enemies of the people.”
Kamala Harris was supported by Michelle Obama, one of Americans’ favorite personalities. The former first lady of the United States expressed her “real fear” of seeing Donald Trump return to the White House, who never acknowledged his defeat in 2020 and was indicted by federal justice for attempts to illegally reverse the results of the vote.
“How can this race be so close? “, she insisted, implying that misogyny is part of the answer. Then addressing the men: “From the depths of my being, I ask you to take our lives seriously.”
