For the first time since the start 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‘ election campaign, the Democratic candidate is trailing in all seven swing states. According to the Real Clear Politics average of polls, in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Trump is ahead. In some cases the gap is very small, less than 1% and therefore those states should honestly still be considered “in the balance”. This is the case of Pennsylvania (where the last vote will be fought), Michigan and Wisconsin. Where, however, until last week, Kamala Harris was in the lead. To fully understand how favorable the trend is to the Republican candidate, just make a comparison with previous elections. On the average of swing states, Trump was 4 points behind Biden. He is now 1 point above Kama Harris. The electorate of all these states has therefore moved to the right. This explains the low blows of the Democratic electoral campaign, which now aims to personally demolish the figure of Donald Trump.
Without being too subtle, the incumbent president Joe Bidenat a New Hampshire campaign event, said Trump “should be locked up.” Just to quote his words in full, without extrapolating, thus he spoke the opposition candidate’s president of the United States: «This is a man who also wants to replace every public employee, every single employee; he thinks he has the right, under the Supreme Court ruling on immunity, to be able, if necessary… to eliminate – to physically eliminate, to shoot, to kill – someone who… he believes to be a threat to him. I know this may sound bizarre. If I had said that five years ago, you would have locked me up. [Ora] We have to lock him up.” After the applause had already begun, Joe Biden was keen to clarify that “lock up” should not be understood in a literal sense (incarcerate), but in a metaphorical sense: lock up politically. But after listing all these potential dangers to democracy, did he really just mean to “lock him up” in a metaphorical sense? If Trump had made the same joke, today we would be talking about a threat to democracy. It’s already happened, for much less.
We haven’t seen an “October Surprise” yet, news in the last weeks of the election campaign capable of pinning down the winning candidate. However, some striking, even if objectively weak, evidence is emerging. The first is that of model Stacey Williams who accusation the former president of having molested her and involved her in erotic games together with Jeffrey Epstein, the late agent of escorts (including minors) for the world’s big names. But we are talking about events from 1993, therefore 31 years ago. And one of the two accused, in fact, is deceased and cannot testify in his defense. “These allegations, made by a former Barack Obama activist and announced in a Harris campaign phone call two weeks before the election, are unequivocally false. It is obvious that this false story was made up by the Harris campaign,” the Trump campaign states in response.
The other testimony, more weighty because it comes from a former Trump manis that of General John Kelly, the first White House chief of staff in the Republican administration. Kelly accuses Trump of being nothing less than a “fascist”, a man who would like to govern as a dictator, admires dictators who are enemies of the USA and despises American values of freedom, indeed, “he doesn’t know what to do with it”. And he even says that the former president you admire Hitler. In short, according to Kelly, it is a danger to democracy. But it is the general’s word against that of the former president with whom he collaborated. The Trump campaign, understandably, denies everything.
The most damning part of General Kelly’s testimony however, it concerns the words of contempt that Trump is said to have uttered against war dead, defined as “losers” and veterans. In 2017 he would not have wanted a parade of mutilated and disabled veterans, because “it is not a nice scene to see” and in 2018 he would not have wanted to pay homage to the fallen of the First World War, in France, because they were “losers”. They are confirmations of a series of rumors that have been circulating for years, about Trump’s total lack of respect (who has never served in the military) towards men in uniform. He had a similar attitude publicly towards John McCain, his internal rival in the Republicans, war hero and presidential candidate in 2008. Referring to his long and painful imprisonment in Vietnam, he had declared sarcastically: «I prefer to celebrate those who don’t capture”. The topic of contempt for veterans is more painful for a right-wing electorate that has always had the utmost respect for those who serve their country in uniform. But they are also accusations denied, in practice, by the actions of the Trump administration which has invested much more than the Democrats, not only for the army, but also for services dedicated to veterans. Currently, the 61% of the latter would vote for Donald Trump and not Kamala Harris. It is therefore doubtful that General Kelly’s testimony could change the voting intentions of an electorate so solidly aligned with Trump.
Where instead it is the Republican campaign that goes on the attackis on the topic of foreign volunteers in the Democratic campaign. British volunteers, in particular, who arrived in large numbers, organized by the Labor Party. On the LinkedIn profile of a British party official it is boasted that as many as 100 of its members are already at work in the most strategic states of the US elections, to help Harris. And Trump has decided to take legal action. Attorney Gary Lawkowski, from his campaign, denounces blatant “foreign interference” in the electoral process, especially considering that Labor is the government party in the United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer minimizedeclares that the volunteers have always gone to the USA and act according to the law. The laws in the USA provide that there can be volunteers, as long as they are on a personal and free basis. In a previous case, Australian Labor volunteers who campaigned for Bernie Sanders in 2018 had their travel paid for. And Sanders had been sanctioned for this. Trump’s campaign lawyers aim to prove that Britain’s 100-odd Labor volunteers are also paid.
