Kamala Harris received the support of stars Lizzo and Usher on Saturday in key states for the American presidential election, Donald Trump for his part being able to count on the growing involvement of Elon Musk in his campaign.
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Kamala Harris received the support of stars Lizzo and Usher on Saturday in key states for the US presidential election, Donald Trump for his part being able to count on the growing involvement of Elon Musk in his campaign.
In Pennsylvania (north-east), the Republican candidate spoke at length about a golf champion born in Latrobe, where the rally took place, before delivering a speech lasting an hour and a half, punctuated with insults against his opponent.
“You are a shitty vice president, the worst, you are fired, get out of here,” he said, encouraging his voters to express this discontent at the ballot box.
He also tried to appeal to the working class by bringing steel industry workers on stage wearing hard hats.
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Anger linked to the industrial decline of Pennsylvania played an important role in Donald Trump’s victory in 2016. But, in 2020, it was Joe Biden who won in this state.
“If we win Pennsylvania, we win everything else,” he said, renewing his support for hydraulic fracturing, a controversial method of extracting shale gas widely used in this eastern state.
Meanwhile, in Atlanta, capital of Georgia (southeast), Kamala Harris pounded the ex-president on the issue of access to abortion.
The state is among those that have largely restricted that right after Supreme Court justices appointed by Donald Trump revoked it at the federal level.
“About damn time”
“Women have died because of these bans,” insisted the Democratic candidate.
She promised to restore this right throughout the United States, speaking directly to the family of one of these women, present in the room.
Accompanied by singer Usher, she encouraged voters to vote early, a possibility opened since Tuesday and which has already seen a million people cast their vote in four days in this pivotal state.
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“I’m counting on you. We can make a difference in these elections in Georgia,” Usher said.
In Detroit, where the candidate delivered a lightning six-minute speech on Saturday, it was Lizzo who preceded her on stage.
“Is America ready to have its first female president?” asked the 36-year-old flautist and rapper, born in Detroit.
“I only have one thing to say: it’s really time!”, she added, using the title of her famous hit About damn time.
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Early voting operations began on Saturday in this metropolis of the Great Lakes region.
Donald Trump “spends all his time talking about himself,” assured Kamala Harris. “He’s not talking about workers, he’s not talking about you.”
The vice-president, who will celebrate her 60th birthday on Sunday, focused her efforts all week on the three key historically industrial states in the north, including Michigan where Detroit is located.
If she manages to win this state with Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in the November 5 election, she will have almost validated her victory.
McDonald’s
Donald Trump is supported by Elon Musk. In addition to putting his financial power at the service of the Republican, the boss of Tesla, SpaceX and X embarked on a whirlwind tour of Pennsylvania to rally voters.
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On Saturday, he handed a $1 million check to a Harrisburg resident, promising to give such a gift to a different person every day until the election. The only criterion: having signed your petition on freedom of expression and the right to own a weapon, guaranteed by the American Constitution.
“It seems like a good way to spend money,” said the multibillionaire, who again accused Democrats of “censorship.”
Pennsylvania counts a lot in the electoral college responsible for choosing the future occupant of the White House.
Donald Trump is due to continue his campaign there on Sunday.
He plans to briefly play the role of a McDonald’s employee, to mock Kamala Harris who he believes is lying when she claims to have worked in her youth in a fast-food restaurant of the chain.
The two adversaries also accused each other of lacking energy, using increasingly acrimonious terms.
“We don’t need to see what an older, more crazy, unguarded Donald Trump would be like,” Barack Obama said on Friday during a rally in Tucson, Arizona (west).
The former Democratic president was still scheduled to speak Saturday evening in Las Vegas, in the neighboring state of Nevada.
