Yesterday, Friday, Donald Trump further demonized immigrants, promising that an eventual return to the White House would mean the “liberation” of an “occupied America.”
On the other side is his opponent in the November presidential election in the US, Kamala Harris, who is trying to attract moderate voters.
“Today America is known throughout the world as occupied America. We are under the occupation of a criminal force,” the Republican presidential candidate told a crowd of supporters in Colorado.
November 5, the day of the US presidential election, “will be the day of the liberation of America”, he added, to cheers from his supporters.
“Kamala Harris is a criminal”
The 78-year-old Trump had chosen Aurora, a small town in the American West, which for weeks he has incorrectly described as a city in which illegal immigrants have allegedly “seized power”.
Kamala Harris is a “criminal” who “imported an army of illegal alien gang members and criminal immigrants from the dungeons of the Third World,” Trump noted. “Here we have the most shocking example.”
Aurora became a focus of the Republican presidential candidate’s campaign this summer after a video, widely shared by Trump supporters, was released showing armed Latinos breaking into apartments in a city apartment building.
It has since been portrayed by Trump and his supporters as a “war zone,” much to the chagrin of the city’s mayor, Mike Coffman, who is also a Republican.
He reiterates that it is far-fetched to draw this portrait of Aurora from a handful of incidents. Even this week he said that “concerns about Venezuelan gang activity are greatly exaggerated” and stressed that “Aurora is a very safe city.”
But that hasn’t stopped Donald Trump from declaring that mass border arrivals under the Biden-Harris administration have caused a crime wave in the US – something that is not supported by any official statistics.
The billionaire candidate yesterday also stressed the danger of an “enemy from within”. In September, he had also repeated false information on his account, according to which Haitian immigrants were eating dogs and cats in Ohio.
Then at a rally last night in the southwestern US, in Nevada, the state where casinos have been closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, his message to voters was laced with economic arguments: he recalled his plans to exempt the gratuities.
However, he did not hide his strategy.
Policymakers “say the most important thing is the economy and inflation, and the second most important thing is borders and immigration. I think it’s probably the other way around,” he said.
With an eye on moderation, Kamala Harris
On the contrary, his Democratic opponent is betting on the fact that the elections will be won if he gets some moderates on his side.
At a campaign rally in Arizona, in the southwestern United States, the country’s vice president continued to fight for Republicans who refuse to support the former president.
She pledged to appoint one or more ministers from their party if she wins and to form a mixed council, with Democrats and Republicans, to support her policies. “I love good ideas wherever they come from!” he said.
Obama, the heavy artillery
Harris is neck-and-neck in the polls with her opponent, mainly in the seven swing states that are considered critical to the election.
To do better in those states, but also to attract male voters, a segment of the electorate in which Trump is most popular, the Democratic candidate turned to the heavy artillery of her party.
Therefore, former President Barack Obama will soon be moving to Arizona and Nevada. In Pennsylvania on Thursday, he chided his Trump-baited black “brothers” who confuse masculinity with strength and don’t like “the idea of having a woman president.”
Former president Bill Clinton will also campaign in favor of Harris, as part of which he will go to Georgia, in the southeastern United States.
Harris, who has so far focused her campaign on the middle class, has increased her interviews in recent days. Yesterday she was on the front page of Vogue magazine, a fashion institution.
This weekend it is expected to move into North Carolina, in the southeastern US, and then on Monday into Pennsylvania, in the northeast.
Trump, for his part, is expected tomorrow in Arizona, another ambivalent state. However, beyond the critical states, his campaign will not miss Democratic strongholds.
Today he will be at Coachella, known for its music festival, in California, before his campaign rally at the end of October at the iconic Madison Square Garden in New York.
Source: APE-MPE, AFP
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