Harris and Trump deliver their final plea to America | US elections 2024

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump continue their campaign on Saturday, both presenting themselves as saviors of the United States three days before an election that is still undecided and which has the world in suspense.

The Democratic vice-president, who could become the first female president of the United States, and the Republican billionaire, who dreams of returning to the White House, are in full verbal escalation.

The climate is particularly electric with one political-media controversy per day and fears of violence after Tuesday, November 5, especially if the result is extremely close, as all the polls predict.

Kamala Harris tries to convince that she is theantidote to the former Republican president, as his running mate Tim Walz said on Friday. In his latest campaign video (New window)she promises tobe a president for all Americans.

We will win because you know what you stand forshe said in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, inviting finally turn the page on a decade of Donald Trump Who made us tired and who is obsessed with revenge of the 2020 election which he never admitted having lost.

In less than 90 days, it will be him or me in the Oval Officeshe recalled during a second rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, another of the key states that will decide the fate of the election.

According to a poll published on Saturday, which will cause a lot of ink to flow, Kamala Harris is ahead of Donald Trump in Iowa, a state nevertheless notoriously considered for the Republican.

The border issue

The populist tribune, with increasingly authoritarian rhetoric, convicted in a number of criminal and civil cases, once again painted a black picture on Saturday of the United States, which would be busy by millions of illegal migrants, worst murderers out of all the prisons of the world and mental asylums.

He promised to expel them, asserting on the contrary that if his rival wins, the country will be transformed into a squalid and dangerous refugee campduring a rally in Gastonia, North Carolina.

November 5 will be the most important day in American historyhe declared in a speech in which he also continued to attack his rival, often relying on sexist remarks.

While the place of women in society and their rights, particularly that of abortion, were at the heart of the campaign, several demonstrations were organized on Saturday across the country.

Pink sign Angry grandmother hand, Sheridan Steelman came to Washington from Michigan with her two sisters to protest. Staying on the sidelines is what I’ve always done, but today there’s too much at stakesays this 74-year-old English teacher. If Donald Trump is elected, we will be more and more silencedshe fears.

Saturday morning on Fox News, the former president attacked an election ad showing women voting for Kamala Harris without apparently telling their husbands. Can you imagine a wife not telling her husband who she is voting for? Donald Trump was offended. It’s ridiculous.

Electoral process

The 2024 campaign, scrutinized around the world and particularly in Europe and the Middle East, was extraordinary: in the space of a few weeks this summer, President Joe Biden, 81, threw in the towel and left instead Ms Harris and Mr Trump was the target of two assassination attempts.

Since then, the two adversaries have done everything to appeal to women, young people and African-American, Arab-Muslim and Latin-American electorates.

Tuesday’s election could be so hotly contested, in a politically fractured country, that it could be days before there is a definitive national result — more than 73 million Americans have already mailed or cast ballots. bulletin in advance.

Donald Trump’s entourage has already started to fuel rumors of irregularities, even cheatscommitted during voting operations.

In his rallies, his supporters are already all looking towards the post-election. Jace Boda, engineer, says he is convinced thatthere will be a lot of fraud. And to add: Kamala is going to become president, but I think Trump will win if the vote count is honest.