It's the home stretch in the race for the White House! In the running to succeed Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are engaged in a merciless duel and trying to rally the last undecided voters. The Democrat and the Republican are neck and neck in the polls, and the outcome of Tuesday evening's vote is more undecided than ever.
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“Vladimir Putin has repeated it: we respect the will of the American people. » It is in these terms that the Russian embassy in the United States responded to the angry people who imagined that it was behind the false videos linked to the American elections. The bad guys are mainly the American intelligence services, who accused her of being responsible for a doctored video. We see a man in a vehicle saying in a monotone voice facing the camera: “We are from Haiti. We arrived in America six months ago, and we already have American citizenship – we are voting for Kamala Harris.” He then claims that he and his friends voted in several counties and shows a series of driver's licenses.
The embassy emphasizes that Moscow has received “no evidence supporting these allegations when communicating with American authorities.”
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« Someone who wants to be president of the United States and uses this kind of verbal abuse is clearly disqualified from being president. »
While the two candidates are fighting over voters still undecided, Trump ignited a new controversy by suggesting that one of his fiercest opponents, Liz Cheney, be placed in front of guns pointed at her. Harris, who allied herself with this former Republican parliamentarian, was quick to estimate that this verbal violence “disqualified” her opponent.
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4.000 police reinforcements. This is what the head of Washington law enforcement plans to mobilize for the inauguration of the future president. Security barriers, planks on store windows, visible police presence: ahead of the presidential election, the city of Washington is preparing for any eventuality of violence, keeping in mind the events that shook it four years ago .
Authorities in the US capital have warned that a “shifting and unpredictable security environment” can be expected in the days and even weeks following the closing of polling stations, adding that they do not expect not for a winner to be proclaimed on the day of the election.
On the agenda for the next few hours
The highlight of the next few hours will undoubtedly be the arrival of the former First Lady, the ultra popular Michelle Obama, in Philadelphia to support Kamala Harris. The Democratic candidate will also be able to count on singer Alicia Keys to convince Pennsylvania voters to vote for her, while she herself will continue her tour of key states. Tour which will take her to Georgia, North Carolina and Michigan (north). For his part, Donald Trump will attend campaign rallies in Virginia and North Carolina.
Women's demonstrations were also organized on Saturday in several American cities, while the defense of the right to abortion was at the heart of the campaign.
