Me or chaos: Harris and Trump deliver their final plea to America

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 is trying to convince that she is the “antidote” to the former Republican president, as her running mate Tim Walz said on Friday. In her latest campaign clip, she promises to “be a president for all Americans.”

“We will win because you know what you are defending,” she said in Atlanta, Georgia (south) on Saturday, inviting us to “finally turn the page on a decade of Donald Trump” which “has tired us” and who is “obsessed with revenge” for the 2020 election that he never admitted to losing.

“In less than 90 days, it will be him or me in the Oval Office,” she recalled during a second meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina (southeast), another of the key states which will decide of 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 most important day in American history”

The populist tribune, with increasingly authoritarian rhetoric, convicted and indicted in a number of criminal and civil cases, once again painted a black picture on Saturday of the United States, which would be “occupied” by millions of migrants clandestine, the “worst murderers” released from all the “prisons of the world” and “psychiatric asylums”.

He promised to expel them, asserting conversely that if his rival wins, the country will be transformed into “a sordid and dangerous refugee camp”, during a rally in Gastonia, North Carolina.

“November 5 will be the most important day in American history,” he 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.

With a pink “Angry Grandma” sign in hand, Sheridan Steelman came to Washington from Michigan with her two sisters to demonstrate. “Staying on the sidelines is what I’ve always done, but today there are too many things at stake,” says this 74-year-old English teacher. If Donald Trump is elected, “we will be increasingly silenced,” she 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 said. “This is ridiculous.”

Looking towards the post-election

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 Kamala Harris and Donald Trump were the targets 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 begun to fuel rumors of irregularities, even “cheating”, committed during voting operations. In his meetings, his supporters are already all looking towards the aftermath of the election.

Jace Boda, engineer, says he is convinced that “there will be a lot of fraud”. And added: “Kamala will become president, but I think Trump will win” if the vote count is honest.

AFP

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