On the main avenue leading to the Philadelphia Museum of Art before which the vice-president was to speak late in the evening, a few hours before the opening of the polling stations on Tuesday, the crowd is impressive and the queues form long serpentines.
I’m cautiously optimistic, but I’m worriedexplains Robin Matthews, a 50-year-old association leader from the suburbs, in this Pennsylvania so crucial for the final result of the presidential election.
Because if she doesn’t win, we’re screwed. Totally. He (Donald Trump) is going to ruin everything. It is out of control, there is no more balance of powershe assures. At his side, his 16-year-old son, Asher, intervenes to highlight what, in his eyes, is the issue of this election: preserving our democratic system.
– Difficult to talk (to oneself) –
Supporters of Kamala Harris line up before the Democratic candidate’s last campaign meeting, on November 4, 2024 in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), on the eve of the US presidential election.
Under the autumn foliage, percussionists set the mood before the meeting where stars like Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey are expected, at the foot of the museum steps climbed by Sylvester Stallone in a famous scene from Rocky.
But at the end of a very long campaign, marked by extraordinary twists and turns in an America more divided than ever, Yvonne Tinsley, a 35-year-old accounting manager, wants it to end.
She’s tired of political ads on TV and she’s tired of having to explain to her friends that the news isn’t in videos on Facebook or Instagram.
Cautious, she does not expect any political miracle with Kamala Harris. I know she’s not going to change everythingshe said. But too much is at stake in his eyes if the former Republican president returns to the White House.
I’m a black woman in America, so unfortunately all policies affect me differently because I will be the worst offshe explains. So, coming back to a world where we don’t even listen to white women, it’s certain that I will be heard even less.
We had Trump for four years, nothing workedsays Robert Rudolf, a 58-year-old computer programmer. There was a lot of racism, misogyny. It’s normalized a bit, so I hope we stay away from all that.
Cap Harris-Walz on his head and a lumberjack shirt on his back, he explains that he comes from a rural area and rouge of the State.
We are more and more divided. It’s really, really hard to talk to people on the other sidehe said.
Scene from the last campaign meeting of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, scheduled for November 4, 2024 in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) on the eve of the American presidential election
A tense context which makes Roxana Rohe, 42, a professor who came with her two daughters, fear a long post-election sequence.
Trump is already saying the election was stolen from him, before it even happenedshe sighs.
