Kamala Harris, aware that Donald Trump is still considered by many voters as the best candidate for the American economy, strongly attacked him on Wednesday, painting him as a friend of the rich and smearing his record.
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The vice-president and Democratic candidate in the November 5 election defended her plans for the world’s largest economy and purchasing power in Pittsburgh, the historic steel capital, in Pennsylvania.
“For Donald Trump, the economy must serve the owners of large skyscrapers. Not from those who build them, nor from those who install electricity, nor from those who wash the floors,” criticized Kamala Harris, presenting herself on the contrary as a child of the middle class.
The Democrat, for whom the high cost of living remains a serious electoral handicap, attacked the record of her billionaire rival in the White House.
She accused him of having caused America to lose 200,000 industrial jobs and assured that China had “constantly played” its adversary on the technological and commercial level.
The 59-year-old candidate, however, recognized that the cost of living remained “too high” for households, repeating her few concrete promises: a tax credit for young families and for small business creators, aid for the purchase of housing, control of the often exorbitant price of medicines…
Everything must be financed by heavier taxation, imposed on large companies and large fortunes.
“Not serious”
In her first solo television interview, on MSNBC, since she took over the torch of the race for the White House from Joe Biden, she then accused her rival of being “not serious” with his strong project. taxes on imported goods in case of victory.
“Kamala Harris is right about one thing: it’s time to turn the page. She had three and a half years to show what she could do and she failed” when it came to the economy, counter-attacked Karoline Leavitt, a Donald Trump campaign spokesperson.
Capture from Kamala Harris interview | MSNBC
The Democratic candidate, who planned to go to Arizona on Friday, in a city adjoining the border with Mexico, also promised during the same interview to resurrect a bill from the current Democratic president in the event of victory.
This text, torpedoed by the Republicans, planned to increase the resources of the border police and restrict access to the right to asylum.
If the Republican seems to be losing his ascendancy over Kamala Harris on the economy, on the other hand, according to polls carried out among voters, he is considered much more convincing on immigration, again according to opinion polls.
The former president, who did not hesitate to spread false racist information about immigrants from Haiti, accuses his rival of having transformed the southern border into a sieve, and promises mass expulsions if he wins.
Iran and Ukraine
Among the seven famous pivotal states – Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada and Pennsylvania – Pennsylvania is the jackpot, because it will offer 19 electoral votes to whoever wins it on November 5.
The first to reach 270 voters will win the presidential election, which is an indirect vote.
Donald Trump will also soon travel to Pennsylvania as part of his campaign, more precisely to Butler, the same place where he was targeted by an assassination attempt in mid-July.
On Wednesday, the Republican, campaigning in another highly coveted state, North Carolina, attacked Iran, saying that it would be necessary to threaten to “destroy” the country if Tehran attacked a candidate for the American election.
He was thus referring to his own case, after having announced the day before that his life was directly threatened by Iran.
The Republican candidate has been the target of two assassination attempts in recent months.
Donald Trump also strongly criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who met Kamala Harris this Thursday.
“Every time he came to our country, he left with $60 billion, I think he’s the best businessman on the planet,” the former president quipped.
