Ten days before the deadline, there is no question of releasing the pressure for the two contenders for the White House, which no poll manages to decide between: Kamala Harris is playing the Obama card on Saturday while Donald Trump is in two states, before a big rally in New York.
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After Texas the day before, the paths of the two candidates cross again on Saturday in Michigan, one of the Swing Statesthese key states where the November 5 vote will be played out.
Kamala Harris continues to rely on a slew of celebrities: Lizzo and Usher last weekend, Bruce Springsteen on Thursday, Beyoncé on Friday for a rally focused on abortion rights and two headliners from her party on Saturday, Barack and Michelle Obama.
For the former first lady, one of Americans’ favorite personalities according to the YouGov site, with a popularity rating of 61%, it’s the big return to the campaign.
“Don’t sit around complaining. Do something,” she told the crowd at the Democratic Convention in August.
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In her hometown of Houston, Beyoncé on Friday encouraged America to “sing a new song.” “This is our moment,” Kamala Harris said.
“I’m not here as a celebrity. I am not here as a politician. I am here as a mother,” said the star, “worried about the fate of the world in which my children and all our children live.”
Leonardo DiCaprio, known for his commitment to the environment, announced in a video that he supported Kamala Harris, because the country “needs a leap forward to save our economy, our planet and ourselves,” according to the ‘actor.
“Wild Gang”
For his part, Donald Trump continues to insist that he is the only bulwark against the supposed decline of the world’s leading power.
At a rally in Traverse, Michigan, on Friday, he again spoke of “an army of migrant gangs waging a campaign of violence and terror against our citizens” and a “criminal migrant invasion imported by Kamala.” Harris.
He arrived very late, after having recorded a three-hour show in Texas with Joe Rogan, whose podcast, on the Spotify platform, is the most listened to in the world.
The Republican returned to his career, his mandate at the White House and his campaign arguments, with lots of anecdotes and digressions, particularly on martial arts, a passion of his host.
He claimed to be very well placed in voting intentions. “I only believe (in polls) when they are good,” he half-joked.
“Chaos”
More than 38 million Americans out of the 244 million called to the polls have already made their choice by early voting.
Trump’s interview with Rogan was particularly aimed at young men, especially those who appreciate the billionaire’s macho speeches.
Joe Rogan, complicit host, seemed to approve of most of the former president’s interventions, even when he invoked statistics contradicted by official figures on immigration and crime.
To return to the White House and take revenge on the Democrats whom he wrongly accuses of having stolen the election from him in 2020, Donald Trump is counting in particular on Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, three states having split in 2016 the “blue wall”, a block of around twenty states considered firmly democratic.
He is heading to the first two Saturdays for rallies, before a big event at New York’s legendary Madison Square Garden on Sunday, where he will want to show the “chaos” he says New York residents are experiencing because of the Democrats .
A small gap in Democratic land, after that of Harris in conservative Texas, because for days, the candidates have instead focused their efforts on the seven pivotal states in which neither has managed to widen the gap beyond the margin of error: Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan and Wisconsin.
