Harris and Trump in the finish line before the election, which will be held in three days
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump continued the election campaign at a furious pace, presenting themselves as the saviors of the United States in the last weekend before the election, the outcome of which is still very uncertain and worries the world, writes the Agence France Presse.
The Democratic vice president who could become the first female president in the United States and the Republican billionaire who dreams of returning to the White House are in full swing.
The atmosphere is highly charged with a daily political and media controversy and the fear of an outbreak of violence after November 5, especially if the result is very narrow as all the polls predict.
This weekend, Kamala Harris is again touring key US states that will be decisive for Tuesday's election. In the southern state of Georgia, North Carolina in the southeast and Michigan in the north, she is trying to convince the last undecided voters that she is the "cure" for the former Republican president.
Last night, during three consecutive rallies in Wisconsin, another of the seven swing states, she called for an "end to the decade of Donald Trump politics" that she said had damaged American democracy.
On the other hand, Trump with populist and increasingly authoritarian rhetoric, a man who has been convicted and accused in numerous criminal and civil proceedings, is going to rallies in Virginia and North Carolina today.
In Gastonia, North Carolina, he again emphasized the black image of the United States, which will be "occupied" by millions of illegal immigrants, the "worst murderers" who came out of "the world's prisons" and "psychiatric asylums".
He vowed to expel them, claiming on the other hand that if his rival won, the country would be turned into a "dark and dangerous refugee camp".
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He again attacked Kamala Harris calling her "incompetent" and rated that "5. November will be the most important day in American history." Demonstrations by women were organized in several American cities, while the defense of abortion rights was at the center of the campaign as Democrats count on these votes.
During an appearance on Fox News, Trump criticized a Democratic campaign ad that showed women voting for Kamala Harris without apparently telling their husbands.
"Can you imagine a woman not telling her husband who she is voting for?" It's ridiculous," Trump said.
He called the jobs data worse than expected and called it a "gift" to his campaign, though experts said it was a temporary fluctuation. Trump has predicted that there will be a depression like the one in 1929 if his presidential opponent is elected.
On the other hand, the current vice president further accelerated her campaign. In the latest campaign ad, she reminds US citizens that they "have much more in common than what divides them."
"I am committed to being the president of all Americans," she vowed against her opponent, whom she describes as "volatile and obsessed with revenge" in the 2020 election, which she lost to Joe Biden, a defeat she has never acknowledged.
"We're going to win because you know what you stand for," Kamala Harris said in Atlanta and urged voters to "finally close the decade of Donald Trump," which, as she emphasized, had tired Americans.
The 2024 election campaign, which is being followed around the world, especially Europe and the Middle East, was special in many ways, in a few weeks this summer, 81-year-old President Joe Biden dropped out of the race in favor of his Vice President, Kamala Harris, while Republican candidate Trump was the target of two assassination attempts.
Since then, the two opponents have been doing everything they can to attract women, young people and African-American, Arab-Muslim and Latino voters.
Tuesday's election could be so contested in a politically divided country that it could be days before final results are known. More than 73 million Americans have already voted by mail or early voting.
Donald Trump's camp has already started releasing allegations of alleged irregularities, of electoral fraud during the conduct of the vote, reports France Presse.