Friday, one month before the American presidential election, Joe Biden expressed concern about the risk that the vote would not be “peaceful”, because of the behavior of Republican candidate Donald Trump.
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“The things that Trump said and the things he said last time when he didn’t like the result of the election were very dangerous,” warned the American president.
“I am worried about what they are going to do” during the vote, he said during an impromptu exchange with journalists.
As the November 5 election approaches, pitting Democratic Vice-President Kamala Harris against former Republican leader Donald Trump, illustrations of an American society on edge are omnipresent.
The electoral centers of the most contested counties, targets of high tensions four years ago, have turned into fortresses, protected by wrought iron fences and metal detectors.
The certification of the results of the presidential election at the Capitol, the scene on January 6, 2021 of an attack by unleashed Trumpists, will this time be supervised by the highest level of security possible for an official event.
Cheating like hell
The fear is that, once again, the vote will be so close that it will take not hours, but days to declare a winner.
Donald Trump, who never acknowledged his defeat in 2020, has already laid the first foundations for a new challenge on Friday, during a public meeting with voters, accusing the Democrats of “cheating like hell”.
The Republican candidate also attributed the second assassination attempt of which he was the victim to the “rhetoric” of his adversaries, while the Democrats, on the contrary, accuse him of being the instigator of a sometimes unbreathable political climate.
The septuagenarian Republican will also return on Saturday to the scene of the first assassination attempt against him, where he narrowly escaped in July from the bullets of a shooter in the town of Butler in Pennsylvania, for a new campaign rally.
He will be accompanied by a distinguished guest: Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, owner among others of X, Tesla and SpaceX.
Before that, Donald Trump was in Georgia on Friday, a state hard hit by the hurricane Helene which left more than 200 dead in the United States. During this trip, he criticized the White House for having “terribly” managed this crisis, accusing, without proof, the Biden administration of having diverted funds from the federal agency for responding to natural disasters, to redistribute them to migrants.
Obama supports Harris
Kamala Harris was in Michigan, a key state in the Great Lakes region and symbol of industrial decline in the United States from the 1980s.
The Democratic candidate began her trip to the large city of Detroit, cradle of the American automobile industry, where she wants to strengthen her image as a pro-union candidate.
The working-class electorate was traditionally favorable to the Democrats, but Donald Trump has managed since his entry onto the political scene to attract the favor of many of its members.
To try to slow down this exodus, Kamala Harris will be able to benefit from strong support in the coming weeks in the person of Barack Obama. Still very popular, the first black president in the history of the United States will take the field in several key states until the November 5 vote, the campaign team of the Democratic vice-president announced on Friday.
In Michigan, Kamala Harris also made a stopover in Flint, infamous for having experienced a huge scandal over lead contamination of drinking water.
“You know better than anyone, Flint, access to clean water should be a right for everyone,” assured the vice-president to the cheers of the crowd.
