Sandra Sabatés connects with Guillermo Fesser from El Intermedio to find out how the change in the Democratic candidate in the United States has been perceived. The last time she spoke to the journalist it was Joe Biden, while currently it is Kamala Harris. “On July 21, it seemed to millions of US citizens as if a giant had drawn a curtain in the sky and the sun had begun to rise,” says Fesser, who affirms that they no longer had “a knot in their stomach.”
And the fact is that “a victory that was taken for granted for Donald Trump was likely not to happen.” “As Michelle Obama said at the convention, hope has returned to the city,” says Guillermo Fesser, who points out that this means that “perhaps in the White House we do not have to put up with a capricious five-year-old who lies at a rate of two lies per minute, but rather we have an adult.”
“There have been two coups: first, Biden has the generosity to say no and let Kamala Harris be the candidate,” says Fesser, who points out that “Trump did not expect it” and has given “oxygen to Kamala.” He also highlights that “Kamala Harris has convinced many people that she can be president with her speech.” “The second coup is the choice of the vice president, Tim Walz, who is an ordinary man,” says the journalist, who details that Walz “has been a teacher, a soldier, a football team coach and is the father of a child with problems.”
“Trump hates Walz because he has shown that you can be a gentleman, heterosexual, white and, on top of that, decent,” says Fesser, who claims that “there is a moment for Kamala and Walz and the wind is blowing in their direction.” Asked by El Gran Wyoming if everything is as equal as in 2020, Guillermo Fesser points out that “the issue is with the undecided, who still don’t know if they are going to vote or not”: “Many are deactivated because they are bored by both Trump and Biden, but Kamala has made 165% more young women in African-American communities register to vote.”
