We do not know who will win the elections on November 5, but we do know one thing: the campaign of <a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/donald-trump-whats-behind-the-us-presidents-baltimore-attack/" title="Donald Trump: What's behind the US President's Baltimore attack”>Kamala Harris believe it will be Trump. Hence they began to parade it in the media, something that they had carefully avoided until a couple of weeks ago, until someone came up with the idea that, for the first time in their life, not in this campaign but in general, they would do an interview in a hostile environment: nothing more and nothing less than Fox News.
Kamala Harris He arrived late and left early, and tried not to answer a single question posed to him by a respectful but increasingly exasperated Brett Baier. To each question and cross-question posed by possibly the most respected and followed figure on Fox News outside of the right, Harris answered by referring to Donald Trump, and especially trying to emphasize that he is a threat to democracy and that he will destroy USA as we know it.
To give an example: when he asked him if during the three and a half years he worked with Bidenmeeting with him at least once a week, never had any concern about the president’s mental state, he responded that Americans “are worried about Donald Trump.” It was so insistent and brazen that it allowed us all to realize the change that the Harris campaign has made since he started doing interviews on television. From relying on abstract sensations such as “joy” fleeing as much as possible from the concrete: her program and her responsibility during Biden’s mandate, Harris has gone on to position herself simply as someone who is not Donald Trump, exploiting the reasonable repulsion that a majority of North American citizens feel towards the Republican.
The problem with this strategy is that it puts in the minds of Americans not only Trump as a person, but also as president. This is not the 2016 campaign: the magnate governed for four years and, for the most part, as reflected in the polls, voters claim that they were better off when Trump governed than during the years of Biden… and Harris. So it is not clear that it is a winning bet.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has continued his business, stopping in Pennsylvania to fry potatoes in a McDonalds. The intention: for the media to focus on Kamala Harris’s statement that in the summer of 1983 she worked in the most American company possible, a biographical detail that seems constructed to make her closer to the experiences of the average voter, but on the that there is no more proof than his word. The problem is that he had never mentioned it until his failed 2020 presidential campaign, not even in his autobiography, nor is there any record anywhere, nor witnesses to corroborate it.
In the end, if you are a Republican, journalists investigate even the brand of socks you wear in case they are made in Bangladesh and you are complicit in child exploitation, but if you are a Democrat they take your word as if it came directly from the Almighty. And so, without having to go to the United States, we have seen that the approach that newspapers such as The World o The Country is that Trump accuses Kamala “without evidence” of never having worked at a McDonald’s, but without offering, because there is no evidence, that she has.
In any case, Trump saying that after fifteen minutes of frying potatoes he had already worked harder at McDonalds than Harris has been one of the great comic moments of the campaign. Because of things like this, his followers are so fanatical and it will be so difficult for the Republican Party to retain many of them when they leave politics, one way or another.
