Former U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris encouraged voters in two key Midwestern states, 4 days before a close election that will define the country’s political future for the next four years. Both candidates made several stops in both states, Michigan and Wisconsin, and ended the day in Milwaukee, at campaign events located just a few miles from each other.
Furthermore, they highlighted their respective proposals for the country and what differentiates them from each other. Harris emphasized the importance of the youth vote, which she called the “promise” of the United States and emphasized her vision of unity and collaboration with Republicans, while Trump emphasized his “love for the country” and assured that the Democrat “hates” the nation. “He’s not a good person (…) I think he hates them,” the former president told his supporters, adding that he believes the former prosecutor is “incompetent” and that she was “the worst vice president in history”.
Harris, for her part, insisted that she believed it was necessary to work with Trump’s party: “I promise to seek common ground and find common sense solutions to the challenges we face“. Several artists appeared at Harris’ event, including rappers GloRila and Cardi B. The latter gave a speech in which she revealed that she made the decision to vote when the vice president replaced Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket.
Trump appeals to Arab voters and Biden to the working class
Before heading to Milwaukee, Trump visited Dearborn, Michigan, considered the “Arab capital” of the United States, fishing for votes within the Arab and Muslim community, very unhappy with the Democrats’ support for the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip. During a visit to an Arab restaurant, the New York tycoon assured that if he won the elections, there would be “peace in the Middle East”, although he did not detail any plans to achieve this .
Trump was asked by the press about the controversy sparked Thursday by suggesting that former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, in confrontation with the former president, should be shot. Far from rectifying, the Republican once again attacked Cheney, ensuring that he “a war hawk” and a “misfortune”.
President Joe Biden, who traveled several cities to support Harris’ candidacy, appeared this Friday at the headquarters of a Philadelphia union to highlight his government’s work in favor of workers, particularly in terms of pension protection . “The middle class built this country and unions built the middle class,” Biden said, repeating one of his best-known phrases to applause from those in attendance.
Unions have been a fundamental pillar of Biden’s political support throughout his career, and now the president is looking to shift that working-class support to Harris in states where the working class has great voting power like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. Michigan and Wisconsin They are part of the states known as the “blue wall”. Traditionally Democratic thanks to the urban African American vote and the white working class, until in 2016 they turned to former President Donald Trump.
Biden won them back in 2020 for Democrats, but four years later they are in danger again: Polls predict a close race, with Harris leading Trump by a margin of just 1 percentage point, according to the survey aggregator portal FiveThirtyEight.
