The Democratic vice-president and the former Republican president continued on Sunday to travel through the key states which will decide whether America will open the doors of the White House to a woman for the first time or, on the contrary, send the billionaire back there.
Donald Trump a promis un «tidal wave» of votes in his favor. Kamala Harris, on a campaign platform at the University of Michigan, assured: “The momentum is on our side“. In this state, where she risks losing the support of the population of Arab origin, representing nearly 200,000 people, due to Washington’s support for Israel, the Democrat promised to “do everything to stop the war in Gaza».
The Republican, for his part, continued in the verbal escalation. “I shouldn’t have left» from the White House, said the 78-year-old Republican candidate, who never acknowledged his defeat in 2020 and whose supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 to try to prevent the certification of the victory of Joe Biden.
The former Republican president has even already laid the groundwork for a challenge in the event of defeat. “They try as hard as they can to steal» the election, he said during a rally on Sunday, questioning the reliability of the vote count. “The systems in place for this election in 2024 are reliable“, retorted Kamala Harris.
Saturate the media space
As Kamala Harris, who announced on Sunday, more than 78 million Americans have already voted, early or by mail. On Tuesday, when the polling stations in the world’s leading power close, a period of feverish waiting will begin. No one knows whether it will take hours or days for the American media, whose prerogative it is traditionally, to attribute victory to one or the other.
Kamala Harris is showing new strength in North Carolina and Georgia as Donald Trump erases her lead in Pennsylvania and maintains his advantage in Arizona, according to a final set of polls by The New York Times and Siena College. pic.twitter.com/M6rXLsmjst
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 3, 2024
The latest poll New York Times/Siena, focusing on the seven crucial states, reports discrepancies too small to allow any conclusions. As D-Day approaches, the two rivals, who spend hundreds of millions of dollars each, are crisscrossing the country and also trying to saturate the media space.
“Fascist”, “beast”
The vice-president, a former California prosecutor, calls for “turning the page on a decade with Donald Trump», elected president to everyone’s surprise in 2016, and who has shaken up American democracy as much as international relations. Kamala Harris portrays it as “fascist“in mind”avenger».
The populist tribune, on whom the legal convictions and indictments seem to slide, turned to open insults, saying of his rival that she was “stupid as his feet“. He presents himself as a providential man for a United States threatened by an economic cataclysm and “invaded» by “millions of murderous illegal immigrants».
The voting system in the United States, a federal country, is complex. The presidency is awarded by indirect universal suffrage: Americans vote for a college of 538 electors, distributed among the 50 states, without the total votes at national level being decisive. A large majority of these states are already considered to be either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. This is why the candidates’ efforts and the suspense are focused on the seven “swing states”.
By Le360 (with AFP)
04/11/2024 at 07:06 a.m.
