The United States decides its future at the polls. The candidates for the presidency of the leading world power, Kamala Harris and Donald Trumpthey already closed one very tight campaign with a marathon day of election events in key states for the electoral competition. Thus ends an absolutely unprecedented race for the White House, marked by assassination attempts against Trump and the withdrawal of Joe Biden.
The former Republican president did so by staying in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan, where he chose the city of Grand Rapidsduring which he has already concluded his two previous campaigns for president: in 2016, when he defeated Hillary Clinton, and in 2020, when he lost to Biden.
The current vice-president and Democratic candidate has, for her part, focused her efforts on a single state: Pennsylvania. stars like Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin or the presenter Oprah Winfrey They supported Harris at her last rally, while Trump’s profile of opening acts was not reputable and was left mainly in the hands of local politicians. The spectacular nature of the Democratic scene also contrasted with the modesty of the Van Andel Arena where the Republican set up his stadium.
Rallies in “hinge” states
The two candidates to occupy the Oval Office need the votes of 270 of the 538 Electoral College delegates to win the November 5 election, but the U.S. presidency It’s actually played in seven states: Pennsylvania (19 delegates), North Carolina (16), Georgia (16), Michigan (15), Arizona (11), Wisconsin (10) and Nevada (6).
Harris appears to have secured the support of 226, so she only needs 44 more, and Trump starts with 219, according to ‘CNN’ forecasts, so it’s no coincidence that his efforts in the latter part of the campaign focused on appeals “Hinge States”. In Pennsylvaniathe only one in which they coincided, both candidates visited majority Latino cities in a last attempt to find the Hispanic votewhich could tip the scales.
Harris appeals to the American dream and Trump blames migrants
The US vice president called for a massive vote with an optimistic message in which appeals to the American dream and “who start as underdogs and climb to victory.” Thus putting the finishing touches to a steep campaign, during which he succeeded overturn the pollsstill succeeding President Biden, who retired after weeks of questioning within his own party following his disastrous performance in the general election. first presidential debate.
“In the United States, we launched this campaign 107 days ago and from the beginning, our fight has not been a fight against something. It has been a fight for something“, he said. “I have spent my life fighting for people who have been hurt and abandoned, but who never stop believing that in our country, anything is possible. I have lived the promise of America and today I see that the promise of America is in everyone here. In each of you. We are the promise of America” he proclaimed.
Trump, for his part, once again brandished his already usual anti-immigration speechdisplaying xenophobic rhetoric and promising to “save every city and village that has been invaded and conquered.” Furthermore, he was confident that he would win the elections: “I think we should do it quite easily. It’s entirely up to us,” the former president said.
A speech in which Trump criticized the slowness of the machines that will read the election results. “What the hell is going on inside these machines? We want the answer tomorrow, tonight,” he asserted, in his constant interest in doubt the resultswhich, due to tight margins in several states, could take days to arrive.
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The Democratic campaign predicts “incredibly close” elections and asked for calm before the vote count. The average of surveys carried out by the FiveThirtyEight site gives Harris is 1.2 points aheadwith 48% of voting intentions, but in key states which call this hypothetical victory into question. In Pennsylvania, they are tied and in North Carolina, Trump is ahead by just one point.
THE possibility of episodes of violence led the country to protect not only its election centers and symbolic buildings such as the White House, but even some businesses and restaurants barricaded their entrances.
Meanwhile, the Republican leadership continues to refuse to accept the results of 2020 and this cycle has once again raised the specter of fraud. This Monday, for example, the Republican National Committee sued the Milwaukee Election Commission over the city’s plan to reduce the presence of observers.
Some 244 million Americans are called to the polls this Tuesday. Among them, 80 million people exercised their right to vote in advanceaccording to the University of Florida count.
So we close unique campaignin which Biden’s resignation from re-election in July was joined by two assassination attempts against Trumpwhich in turn made history thanks to the trials against him, two of them, in Washington and Georgia, for trying to overturn the 2020 results and another in New York where he was found guilty falsification of commercial records.
