In her speech in the town of Eau Claire, the vice president, who is touring crucial states in her search for support to reach the White House, attacked Trump in front of a crowd of supporters. “(Trump) promised everyone that, if he is re-elected, He will be a dictator from day onewhich would instrumentalize the Justice against his political enemies (…) and even, I quote, ‘would abolish the Constitution“‘” Harris argued.
“Someone who suggests abolishing the Constitution should never again have the opportunity to stand behind the President’s banner “The United States,” Harris said to applause from her supporters. Accompanied by her running mate – Minnesota Governor Tim Walz – Harris is trying to form a coalition with undecided voters, independents and even Republicans who are dissatisfied with her rival.
“Donald Trump is not for you or your families. “He shares the same dangerous and retrograde beliefs with his number two (JD Vance),” Walz told those present in Eau Claire. After being in Wisconsin, Harris and Walz will travel to the city of Detroit, Michigan, for another event with members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) automotive union.
Kamala Harris has a slight lead over Donald Trump in the polls
Three months before the elections in USA, Harris and Trump They are competing in the race for the presidency. The Democrat leads the former president by 51% to 48% according to the latest poll by NPR/PBS News/Marist and in 0.5 percentage points in the national average of polls RealClearPolitics. Seventeen days ago, when Biden dropped out of the re-election campaign and appointed Harris, Trump led the president by three points.
With the polls in his favor, The 59-year-old vice president wants to build on the momentum and momentum generated in late July in a spectacular turnaround of the campaign when she replaced the president. Joe Biden as the standard-bearer for the Democratic Party ahead of the November 5 elections. In fact, after Walz’s appointment on Tuesday, they held the largest Democratic rally to date for this election before some 14,000 spectators in the key state of Pennsylvania.
But the duo democrat He only has three months, from now until November 5, to make himself known among the undecided. “We’re the underdogs in this race, but we have the momentum and I know exactly what we’re up against,” Harris said. in Philadelphia.
For his part, President Biden said he was “not at all sure” that there would be a peaceful transfer of power if Donald Trump loses the election. “He’s serious… all that ‘if we lose there will be a bloodbath’ stuff,” he said. the president said in an excerpt from an interview with CBS broadcast Wednesday.
The Harris-Walz team plans to have more than 750 attendees at events in the key “blue wall” states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan when the Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago in mid-August. “Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz’s momentum in battleground states, including the Blue Wall, is real and will be on full display today.”said Dan Kanninen, Harris’s campaign manager for those states.
Walz, 60, a former teacher and retired Army National Guard officer who has been Minnesota’s governor since 2019, is scheduled to appear alongside Harris in each of the swing states, with stops in Arizona and Nevada over the weekend.
Republican backlash to Tim Walz being chosen as Kamala Harris’ vice presidential nominee
Many prominent Republicans welcomed Walz’s election instead of the governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, immensely popular in a state that most experts agree will be the top conquest in 2024.
The Republicans Walz is branded a far-left idealist which offered benefits to the undocumented immigrants and tolerated riots in the streets of Minneapolis in 2020, following the murder of George Floyd, a black man suffocated by a white officer in a controversial police operation.
It is unclear how effective the attacks will be, as the company itself Trump acknowledged in a recent interview that “the vice president – in terms of the election – has no impact…. The election of a vice president makes no difference.”The 78-year-old former president (2017-2021) is not focusing on Harris’s political weaknesses, but on personal attacks that were largely ineffective in stopping her rise.
Trump, Once famous for his ability to define his opponents with a sharp one-word nickname – like “dishonest” for Hillary Clinton or “liar” for Ted Cruz – he has now struggled to find one for Harris. His latest taunt – calling her “Kamabla” – It seems more like a typo than an insult and has left experts racking their brains.
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