Kamala Harris promised Wednesday that her presidency would not be “a continuation” of that of Joe Biden, during a tense interview with Fox News, the favorite channel of American conservatives.
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“Like every new leader who takes office, I will bring my experience, my professional experiences and new ideas,” said the Democratic candidate, 20 days before the American presidential election.
The vice-president, who replaced Joe Biden in mid-July in his duel against Donald Trump, faces a delicate balancing act, obliged to put her own mark on the campaign, without denying the mandate of the octogenarian leader.
“I represent a new generation of leaders,” declared during this interview the candidate who will celebrate her 60th birthday on Sunday.
Questioned by a veteran Fox News journalist for around thirty minutes, Kamala Harris was jostled at times, particularly on the subject of immigration or when she was asked to say whether she had noticed a cognitive decline in Joe Biden.
The vice-president also took the opportunity to accuse Donald Trump of “belittling” Americans.
“The president of the United States should be able to deal with criticism without threatening to put the perpetrators in prison,” she attacked.
Just before his first Fox News interview, Mme Harris previously addressed Republicans at a rally in Pennsylvania, quoting Gen. Mark Milley, Mr. Trump’s former top military official, who described the ex-president as “fascist to the core.” nails.
“For those watching, if you share this view, whatever party you are in, whatever party you voted for last time, there is a place for you in this campaign,” Kamala Harris said. who once again considered that the former president was “unbalanced”.
The pace picks up
As the presidential election approaches, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are venturing out of their comfort zone, seeking to make a breakthrough among electorates that are not very sensitive to their speech.
Faced with an audience of women, the former Republican president presented himself as the “father of fertilization in vitro», affirming that the Republicans had been “more active” than their opponents in this area. But without developing this idea.
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 at the national level.
Qualifying his opponent’s remarks on fertilization in vitro of “utterly bizarre”, Kamala Harris has it guest to “take responsibility for the fact that one in three women in America lives in a state where Trump has banned abortion.”
In the evening, Donald Trump, 78, will answer questions from Latino voters gathered in Miami by Univision, the largest Spanish-speaking television network in the United States.
The two candidates for the White House 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 focusing her efforts this week: she returned 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 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, 15 days after celebrating his 100th birthday.
