Soon-to-be-impeached Kamala Harris Rocks Donald Trump’s Campaign

This Sunday, Kamala Harris will travel through Pennsylvania, a key state for the November presidential election, before going to the Democratic convention in Chicago this Monday, where she will be named as a candidate the party The 59-year-old Democrat, who revived after Joe Biden withdrew in his camp in the hope of victory against Donald Trump, has planned a bus tour around this “swing state”.

Along with his running mate, Minnesota governor Tim Walzthey want to show their support for workers and the working classes, in a state where the current president only won by a hair in 2020 against Donald Trump.

The Republican candidate, well aware of the stakes, was also back in Pennsylvania on Saturday, a state where he had been the subject of attempted murder in July. “She’s crazy,” the 78-year-old billionaire said of his rival.

The former president’s strategy includes, on the one hand, launching several personal attacks against this opponent who is almost 20 years younger. “I’m prettier than her”, for example, he told his supporters, also mocking Kamala Harris’ thunderous laugh, and calling her a “communist”.

Donald Trump has also found new angles of attack, one of which includes repeating false information about the Democrats’ climate policies, promoting disinformation online. “Kamala called for cutting back on red meat consumption to fight climate change,” the Republican candidate said in late July at a meeting in Minnesota.

Donald Trump after a speech in Saint-Cloud, Minnesota, on July 27. Credit: AFP / ALEX WROBLEWSKI

“She wants to get rid of cattle (…) I think at one point she will attack people too,” he said, echoing the conspiracy theorists who accuse the Democrat of wanting to “reduce the population” since the last year’s vice-president meant “reducing pollution”.

For her part, the candidate has never expressed her desire to eliminate gas stoves or reduce red meat consumption, although she wants to change nutritional recommendations.

Attacked by her opponents, Kamala Harris is also supported by heavy weights in her party. Like former President Barack Obama, who comes to support her in Chicago.

In his stronghold, there is no doubt that this charismatic speaker will move the Democrats further, and many of them say that they are finding, in this beginning of the campaign of the vice president, euphoria that recalls the march of the first black president to the White House. of the United States, in 2008.

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But it will be up to Joe Biden, on Monday night, to deliver the first big speech of the convention and a kind of farewell message. The campaign team promises that this last waltz, marking the end of half a century in politics, will not be in any way melancholic.

The president, according to a press release, will boast the results of his mandate, which will end with the “strongest economy in the world”. Above all, he will call support for the vice-president by “clarifying the issues” of the election, facing a president who has been criminally convicted and has not promised to surrender his loss. there could be.

A real show of unity and commitment against Donald Trump, so far the only master of the Republican Party and still loved by his base.

So far, all polls, while giving the Democrat a slight advantage, are predicting a very close vote. The presence of Hillary Clinton, the Republican who surprised everyone in 2016, may remind the euphoric Democrats to be careful.