After the decline of the Joe Biden’s candidacy for the US electionsthe vice president Kamala Harris She has already launched her campaign, and although she has not yet been confirmed as a candidate for the Democratic Partyhas its sights set on the November 5 elections, where would eventually face Republican Donald Trump.
Faced with this hypothetical crossing, this Tuesday the First poll conducted by Reuters/Ipsoswhich reveals that the Vice President slightly leads Republican in voting intention, with 44% over Trump’s 42%Previous polls on July 15 and 16 had them tied at 44%, with Trump leading by one point in a July 1 and 2 survey.
However, it is important to remember that the US elections are not directly defined by voter support but by the electors of each state and in particular of those called “pendulum states”who tip the balance in the United States Electoral College, who ultimately resolves the elections.
According to the most recent survey, 56% of registered voters agreed with the statement that Kamala Harris, 59, was “mentally sharp and able to take on challenges.”while 49% said the same of Trump, 78. Far behind was Joe Biden: only 22% of voters gave that assessment of the President.
The survey included the participation of 1,241 people from all over the countryincluding 1,018 who are not yet registered to participate in the November 5 elections.
Kamala Harris’ campaign against Donald Trump advances
Although the Democratic Convention in August has yet to confirm her candidacy, everything indicates that there will be no primary and that Kamala Harris will be the one to compete against Trump in the November elections. According to polls, she has already accumulated enough delegates to officially become a candidate.
In this way, since the announcement of Biden, The vice president launched her campaign and imposed the following as the angle of her speech: “prosecutor versus convicted felon”in view of the confrontation with Trump, who was convicted in May of a criminal offense.
“The contrast could not be clearer,” said Harris’ campaign spokesman James Singer. The 59-year-old Democratic leader on Tuesday highlighted her experience as a former prosecutor.
“Before I was elected vice president, before I was elected United States senator, I was elected Attorney General of the State of California“I was a prosecutor in the courts before that, and in those roles, I faced criminals of all kinds,” he said Tuesday in Milwaukee, in the state of Wisconsin (north).
“Predators who abused women, scammers who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own benefit,” he listed.
So “listen to me when I say that I know the kind of person Donald Trump is.“he added during the first speech of his presidential campaign.
Source: Ambito
