The former president will meet in Scranton, Joe Biden’s hometown, which is located in one of the most contested states in the November 5 presidential election: Pennsylvania. On the spot, the Republican nominee intends to bash Democrats over “their inflationary policies” and “their disastrous management” of the migration situation, according to information released by his campaign team. Two favorite themes of the billionaire, who, meeting after meeting, paints an extremely dark picture of an America ravaged, according to him, by migrants, galloping inflation and destructive self-righteousness.
After teasing Joe Biden in Scranton, the industrial city in the northeastern United States that the Democratic president calls himself, Donald Trump will organize an additional campaign event in Pennsylvania in the afternoon. The Republican candidate and his Democratic rival Kamala Harris are combing every nook and cranny of this state, which is probably the most coveted in the election. And for good reason: In the United States, the presidential election is played by indirect universal suffrage, where each state allocates a number of electors to a candidate.
“Swing Modes”. Some are clearly committed to the Democratic cause, such as California or New York, or to the Republican, such as Alabama or Wyoming. The election is therefore effectively decided in states which do not clearly lean towards one or the other party – which the Americans call “swing states”. Pennsylvania fits this category: Donald Trump won there by a narrow margin in 2016, and Joe Biden came close in 2020. Many workers in this northeastern state, in industrial decline, abandoned the Democratic ship to join to. Trump.
But Kamala Harris is counting on the big infrastructure projects launched by Joe Biden that create jobs and union support to win them back. The Democratic candidate will be in Pennsylvania again next Monday, after a meeting Thursday with one of the Democratic Party’s top emissaries, former President Barack Obama. The US vice president is also holding campaign events in Arizona and Nevada – two other extremely competitive states for the election.
The two candidates remain neck and neck in the polls despite a number of unprecedented twists and turns in this campaign: Donald Trump’s criminal conviction, two assassination attempts against him, the withdrawal of current President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ entry into the race. The two candidates for the White House plow the ground day after day to capture the votes of the undecided people to tip the scales. According to the US Elections Project, however, about 2.5 million voters have already made their choice, slipping a ballot into the box during early voting.
Camille CAMDESSUS
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