Verbal escalation between Harris and Trump

(Milwaukee) Kamala Harris and Donald Trump continue their intense duel for the White House, marked Friday by fresh accusations of verbal violence coming from the former president.

While both are fighting over voters who are still undecided, in a race that is perfectly undecided according to the polls, the Republican candidate has ignited a new controversy by suggesting that one of his fiercest opponents, Liz Cheney, be placed against guns pointed at her.

Her Democratic rival, who allied herself with this former Republican parliamentarian, was quick to estimate that this verbal violence “disqualified” Donald Trump.

While more than 68 million Americans have already submitted their ballots early, one controversy is now chasing the other in an atmosphere of growing tension as November 5 approaches.

The vice president and former president are tirelessly traveling through key states.

Arab-American electorate

The Democrat will receive in Milwaukee, the largest city in Wisconsin, the support of the famous rapper Cardi B, after having recently obtained that of Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Lopez and even basketball superstar LeBron James.

This state overlooking Lake Michigan swung for Donald Trump in 2016, then for Joe Biden in 2020, by less than a percentage point each time.

The Republican will be in the same city Friday after a last-minute stop in Dearborn, Michigan, the largest American city with a majority Arab population.

Objective: court this electorate, part of which is turning away from Democrats because of the Biden-Harris administration’s support for the war waged by Israel in Gaza and Lebanon.

Donald Trump “understands now more than ever […] our value in winning crucial states like Michigan, Arizona or Pennsylvania,” Bishara Bahbah, president of the Association of Arab-Americans for Trump, told AFP.

Despite dozens of rallies, interventions in podcasts or in television shows, nothing, so far, has moved the cursor significantly in an America politically divided in two.

Disinformation

A few thousand voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona hold the keys to an extraordinary election marked in particular by the resounding arrival in July of the vice-president in the campaign, after the withdrawal of President Joe Biden , and by two assassination attempts against Donald Trump.

Wisconsin is a perfect example.

The Lake Michigan state flipped for Republican in 2016, then for Joe Biden in 2020, by less than a percentage point each time.

While the 2024 election could prove to be just as close, with a delay of several hours or even days before a result, the Republican’s entourage has already begun to fuel the idea that irregularities were committed in the voting operations. .

“If we manage to keep cheating at a low level, we will achieve a huge victory,” Donald Trump said again Thursday evening.

“Nine guns”

During that same discussion, he accused Liz Cheney, his political bête noire, of being a “radical warmonger.”

“Let’s put her rifle in hand facing nine barrels of guns shooting at her. Let’s see what she would think. You know, with the guns pointed at her,” Donald Trump said, evoking the image of a firing squad.

The most famous Republican opponent of Donald Trump, daughter of the former vice-president of George W. Bush, responded on X: “We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel and unstable man who intends to be a tyrant.”

Separately, authorities in Georgia, a key southern state, warned Friday of a fake video showing a Haitian immigrant claiming to have been able to vote multiple times.

This 20-second viral clip comes from a Russian disinformation campaign, according to experts.