Both they remain tied in most polls, although some put the candidate running to replace Joe Biden after its historic abandonment.
The Republican solidified his electoral base after the attack he suffered in July of this year, while Harris increased the numbers of a Democratic Party that could not find its way with the current president running for re-election. The truth is that Biden’s withdrawal rebalanced the electoral path.
In addition, In the usual pivotal states, the former prosecutor failed to rise enough, and it is estimated that this could twist the trend. Taking into account the last two elections in 2016 and 2020 respectively, these states are: Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Either one needs to get 270 electoral votes to win and be proclaimed president of the main global power. Everything indicates that the definition will only be known at the last minuteand that trends can vary even on election day itself.
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The United States defines its future between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
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The campaigns of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris
The current 59-year-old vice president tries to promote “a new generation of leaders” and hopes that “the United States is prepared to receive them.” She hopes that her country wants to break with Trump by electing her, whose father is Jamaican and whose mother is Indian.
Kamala Harris’s program has centrist overtones, combining different promises of improvements for the middle class and defenses of central disputes such as that of right to abortionwith a strong firmness against illegal immigration.
Likewise, he did not precisely detail his program except in the electoral debate, but if knew how to respond to the attacks of the billionaire, with statements that moved him. He reminded him of his last electoral defeat in 2020 and described him as “weak”, among other phrases.
For its part, donald trump He continues with the same positions that led him to become president in 2016, and that he also applied in the elections that he lost against Biden. He shows himself as the anti-system and the only one who can “change the course of his country”, although at the same time he tries to show himself as close to the people by criticizing the Washington elites.
He targets the Democratic candidate fundamentally by questioning inflation and accuses her of wanting to apply the same measures “of Venezuela or the Soviet Union”. The “fight against legal migration that is destroying American cities” and the fight for a country free of “terrorists and rapists, released from prisons and asylums,” are his main campaign slogans.
Furthermore, he has repeatedly used rhetoric that positions him as a survivor of two murder attemptsone in July and another in September 2024.
Political tension grows day by day and the crossfires are felt ahead of next November 5. For this reason, electoral centers have had to be restructured with wrought iron fences and numerous metal detectors.
Source: Ambito