In the key state of the US presidential election, there is also a feeling of disgust with the election, some people are considering not going to vote. Aktuálně.cz reporter Dominika Perlínová describes it directly from the USA in the American Dream podcast.
Excerpt from the American Dream podcast with Dominika Perlínová. | Video: Dominika Perlínová, Martin Novák
The Aktuálně.cz reporter visited, among other things, Philadelphia, the largest city in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania belongs to the so-called swing states, i.e. to a handful of key states whose outcome will be decisive for the November presidential election.
In the podcast, he describes the atmosphere in Philadelphia. According to her, elections can be seen here at every step. “Everyone has posters of Kamala Harris in their windows or in front of their houses, I’ve even seen a few with Donald Trump,” she describes.
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But from the interviews with the local residents, she also got the impression that many voters are fed up with the elections, they say that there is a sense of disgust there. “A lot of them said that both candidates are terrible. That they don’t know who they’re going to vote for, that they don’t want to vote. That’s a very different feeling than in New York. There are people there who don’t know if they’re going to vote for Kamala, but at least in the city You won’t find Trump voters in New York,” he says.
According to her, there is more of a combative atmosphere in New York, where voters want to prevent Trump from coming back to power. On the contrary, there is a sense of resignation from some people in Philadelphia. “Everyone is terrible, everyone keeps promising us something and I don’t see a change,” the reporter explains what she heard from the locals.
Vice President Kamala Harris may become America’s first female president after the November 5 election, where she will face Republican and former head of state Donald Trump for the White House. Polls so far show that it will be an extremely close fight. The result will be decided by seven key states, in which the chances of Republicans and Democrats are usually equal. In addition to Pennsylvania, this year they include Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, North Carolina, Arizona and Georgia. But the most populous of them is Pennsylvania, which also has the largest number of voters.