Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are stepping up and venturing out of their comfort zones on Wednesday, seeking to make a breakthrough among electorates that are not very sensitive to their speech.
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With less than three weeks until the November 5 election, the race between the two candidates for the White House is still uncertain.
In front of an audience of women, the former American president presented himself on Wednesday as the “father of fertilization in vitro», affirming that the Republicans had been “more active” than their opponents in this area. But without elaborating.
For this Fox News show, pre-recorded Tuesday in the hotly contested state of Georgia, Donald Trump was however confronted with a group of women completely committed to his cause.
The latter, also questioned on questions of security, economy and immigration, also considered that certain states had been “too harsh” on the question of abortion since the annulment of the Roe v. ruling. Wade of 1973 which granted American women a federal right to abortion.
According to him, this should “change”.
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Donald Trump is largely behind Kamala Harris in the polls among the female electorate, who closely watches statements related to this sensitive issue of the right to abortion.
On the one hand, he boasts of having appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States the judges who made it possible to overturn federal protection of the right to abortion in 2022, on the other hand, he is careful not to advocate a total ban on abortion, unpopular nationally.
“Donald Trump proclaimed himself “father of fertilization in vitro”, but what is he talking about? Kamala Harris asked.
“His abortion bans have already jeopardized access to the technique in states across the country, and his own agenda could end fertilization in vitro as a whole,” she continued.
A first for Harris
The vice-president, for her part, can expect an uncompromising interview with Fox News, a first for someone who, until recently, was criticized for avoiding putting herself in danger with such meetings.
The 59-year-old candidate will face Bret Baier, a seasoned journalist, pillar of the Fox News political department. He promised that the interview would be broadcast in its entirety, without cuts, at 6 p.m., immediately after being recorded.
His daily show, Special Report With Bret Baierbrings together 2.3 million spectators from Monday to Friday.
In addition to this not-to-be-missed interview, Kamala Harris will hold a campaign rally on Wednesday at Washington Crossing, north of Philadelphia.
The pace picks up
Donald Trump, for his part, will answer questions from Latino voters gathered in Miami by Univision, the largest Spanish-speaking television network in the United States.
With 20 days to make a difference, the two adversaries are working hard, both in the media and in their campaign rallies. Billionaire Elon Musk invested $75 million in the Republican’s campaign.
They are more neck and neck than ever, Donald Trump having managed to overcome the very slight lead his rival had in the polls, particularly in key northern states.
It is also in this region that the vice-president is concentrating her efforts this week: she returns to Pennsylvania on Wednesday, where she was already on Monday, after a detour to Michigan and before heading to Wisconsin in the evening .
But the result of the presidential election could be decided elsewhere, in another of the seven clearly identified key states.
For example in Georgia, where a judge on Tuesday blocked a measure imposing the manual counting of ballots, while the first day of early voting saw a large turnout.
In his ruling, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney said the new rule would disrupt the electoral process and therefore it was “too late” to accept it.
In this same state, former President Jimmy Carter, who had expressed his wish to live long enough to cast his vote for Kamala Harris, voted by mail on Wednesday according to his foundation, 15 days after celebrating his 100th birthday.
