Kamala Harris and Donald Trump set out again on Monday in the hunt for the slightest vote to make the difference in their daggers-drawn duel for the White House, marked by a new controversy after insults against Puerto Ricans during a meeting of the Republican candidate.
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More than 41 million Americans have already voted early for this election which promises to be the closest in the modern history of the United States, and which keeps world diplomacies in suspense, while wars rage in Ukraine and the Middle East.
President Joe Biden himself will vote on Monday, according to the White House.
At the national level as for the seven most contested states which will decide this election by indirect universal suffrage, the polls still give the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, 60, who would become the first black woman president of the United States, neck and neck. United, and Donald Trump, 78, candidate for the third time for the White House, which he left in chaos in 2021.
Each of them returns to the field Monday in these key states. Kamala Harris will go to Michigan, where she faces anger among part of the large Arab-American community over U.S. support for Israel in its wars in Gaza and Lebanon.
For his part, Donald Trump will be in Georgia, where he is due to address an assembly of pastors and religious leaders before holding a meeting in Atlanta. The Republican was able to count on the support of evangelical Christians to boost his campaign, he who had appointed three very conservative judges to the Supreme Court during his mandate in the White House, thus contributing to the end of the guarantee of the right to abortion at the federal level.
Kamala Harris, who has made the defense of women’s right to control their bodies one of her campaign priorities, should probably include this theme in the “final indictment” that she plans to deliver on Tuesday against Donald Trump, in a speech a stone’s throw from the White House, where Donald Trump addressed his supporters on January 6, 2021, just before they attacked the Capitol.
On Sunday, Donald Trump filled the legendary Madison Square Garden in New York with red caps, where he presented himself as the savior of the United States “destroyed” by Kamala Harris, but his meeting was marked by insults against Puerto Ricans who caused controversy.
Among the room drivers, between Elon Musk, Robert Francis Kennedy Jr, the wrestler Hulk Hogan, or the former ultraconservative Fox News host Tucker Carlson, a comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe, stood out by comparing the island of Puerto Rico , a territory belonging to the United States, to “a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean.”
The sequence was quickly denounced on social networks, in particular by Kamala Harris’ campaign team, who had just visited a Puerto Rican restaurant in Philadelphia on Sunday, where this community is based.
And several stars born on the island, such as the prince of reggaeton Bad Bunny, and Ricky Martin, have shown their support for Kamala Harris by relaying videos of the Democrat on Instagram.
