US Presidential Election: Kamala Harris arrived in Philadelphia, on the eve of the debate with Donald Trump

2024-09-10 01:07:26

The deadline is approaching. Kamala Harris arrived on Monday afternoon in Philadelphia, on the eve of her highly anticipated debate against Donald Trump, in an election that all the polls predicted was very close. The vice-president landed around 4:40 pm local time (a little before midnight in France) in this city in Pennsylvania, where American democracy was born.

The former Republican president will go there on Tuesday, around 6:30 pm local time (10:30 pm GMT), a few hours before the scheduled fight in this decisive state with a view to the presidential election.

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In an interview recorded last week and out of which was broadcast on Monday on X by his camp, Kamala Harris judged that in front of his cameras the rival will use “his old hackneyed tactics. It basically has no limits and we must prepare for that. » The 59-year-old Democrat, who expects Donald Trump to “tell a lot of lies”, wants to attack his opponent as a man “who fights for his own interests, not for the Americans”.

“Danger” for the country

Before announcing a surprise ad campaign, completely changed by the removal in July of President Joe Biden, the Democratic camp also released on Monday a new video documenting the violent protests of the former big names in Donald’s administration Trump, including former Vice President. Mike Pence, to describe the 78-year-old billionaire as a “danger” to the country.

A more detailed version of the plan of Kamala Harris, who campaigned on the promise of a “new way” but has distilled only a few concrete proposals, has also been posted online. The former Republican president has increased his public appearances while his rival has spent most of the last three days in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his campaign team, only going out for a walk with his husband Doug Emhoff or to shop at a restaurant. store

An “anti-Trump” grocery store attacked the Republican candidate on Monday, who in a press release on his Social Truth platform, once again described his opponent as a “Marxist”.

On Saturday, the Republican warned that once he returns to the White House, he will impose “long prison sentences” on all those who, according to him, will be “cheats” in November. Donald Trump, who was accused of seeking to change the results of the last election, did not agree to accept a possible defeat.

Change vote

Pennsylvania, with its 19 votes in the electoral college, and tendency to switch from one camp to another, is one of the most coveted “swing states”. Donald Trump narrowly won the state in 2016 and narrowly lost in 2020. Like the two previous presidential elections, the 2024 election may be decided by a few thousand votes in the strategic areas of six or seven major states, because of the mode of Control by indirect all elections.

For electoral decisions on a national scale, the elections give an advantage sometimes to the Democrat, who has succeeded in promoting his party but has not yet made himself known to a large part of the population, sometimes to the Republican, whose base His election does not seem to have been marred either by his legal troubles or by his angry or divisive declarations.

An opinion poll released Monday by ABC credits Kamala Harris with 50% of the vote against 46% for her rival among Americans who are registered to vote, and with 52% against 46% among those voters who will go out in the polls. A survey published on Sunday by the New York Times for the former president, targeted by an assassination attempt in July, before the vice president by one point (48% against 47).