Kamala Harris: How she stands up to Donald Trump in the polls and with her program

During an interview for CNN, Kamala Harris, candidate of the Democratic Party facing à Donald Trump for the 2024 American presidential election, unveiled his program on Thursday, August 29. She is just ahead of his Republican opponent in the polls.

Kamala Harris officially became the Democratic candidate for the US presidential election following the Chicago convention on Thursday, August 22, where she was supported by more than 50,000 activists. The current vice president was chosen to replace Joe Biden after the latter withdrew. Faced with Donald Trump, her candidacy has reshuffled the cards in the presidential race. “When we fight, we win!” she hammered home to her supporters. 

On Thursday, August 29, exactly one week after her inauguration as a candidate, Kamala Harris engaged in a new exercise by giving her first major oral on CNN. During this interview lasting more than thirty minutes, the Democratic candidate estimated that America was “ready to turn the page” on Donald Trump. She clarified her position on several subjects and detailed her program. His next media appointment will take place on September 10, for his first debate against Donald Trump.

• Defense of purchasing power: Kamala Harris had already outlined several economic measures in her program. She had assured that she wanted to “give money back to middle- and working-class families,” accusing Donald Trump of wanting to fight “for billionaires and big business.” During her interview with CNN, the candidate spoke briefly about her projects, such as the tax credit for first-time home buyers upon the birth of a child, reducing inflation at 3% or even job creation in industry, reports Le Monde. Saying she wants to defend purchasing power, which she makes a priority, she promises to control the prices of basic necessities, as well as medicines.
• Ecological measures: to distinguish herself from Donald Trump, Kamala Harris is investing in issues such as the environment with ecological measures, unlike her rival who broke with the Paris agreements during his term. During her interview for CNN, the candidate recalled that “her values ​​have not changed” regarding the climate. However, she explained that she would not ban hydraulic fracturing, a technique that allows rocks to be cracked to extract hydrocarbons, unlike what she had said before.
• Social measures: the Democratic candidate has mainly placed social issues at the heart of her campaign, starting with the right to abortion, facing a Republican camp at the origin of the tightening of access to abortion in several States. The defense of minorities is also a central point of the campaign.
• International : if Kamala Harris has said little about her foreign policy, she has reiterated her commitment to the defense of the Hebrew state and has specified that she would not suspend American arms deliveries to Israel in the event of victory, indicates franceinfo. But while she would like to appear less pro-Israel than Joe Biden, she has condemned the violence against Palestinian civilians. She said that “far too many innocent Palestinians have been killed” and called for “a ceasefire”.

Attacks on Donald Trump

During her interview, the candidate emphasized what she considers to be Joe Biden's good record at the head of the country and accused former President Donald Trump of having “divided our nation.” She assured that “the economy had collapsed” before Joe Biden arrived at the White House and dismissed blame on Donald Trump for the migrant crisis. While her opponent had judged that she was “not really black”, the candidate did not wish to respond to this personal attack. “Still the same old story. Next question, please,” she said, thus dismissing the subject. She also shared a message of political reconciliation, saying that “it would be a good thing for Americans to have a Republican minister in [his] government,” reports franceinfo.

Kamala Harris' candidacy to replace Joe Biden has put the vice president at the top of voting intentions, while the White House tenant was struggling to assert himself against Donald Trump. According to the latest studies compiled by Race to the White House, as of Thursday, August 29, Kamala Harris would come out on top of voting intentions with 48% of voting intentions, compared to 44.4% for Donald Trump. ABC News' polling aggregator 538 also has Harris leading with 47.2 percent of the national vote, compared to Donald Trump's 43.7 percent.

However, the state-by-state poll numbers are where most of the attention is focused. Each state won guarantees a certain number of votes in the more than 500 electors who vote to elect the American president. Most of the 50 states are vested in a political party, but swing states swing to the right or left depending on the election. These must be won to secure access to the White House.

Kamala Harris seems to be in a good position in several of them according to the latest polls: she is ahead of Donald Trump in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Wisconsin. She is slightly ahead in Arizona and Georgia. Donald Trump maintains a large advantage in Florida and Texas. He is slightly ahead of Kamala Harris in North Carolina. These trends may still evolve before the November 5 presidential election. cast.png” width=”800″ />

Kamala Harris' personal journey is impressive, and the vice president knows how to remind people of it. “I am empirical proof of the promise of America,” she regularly explains. An African-American from an academic background, she became the first woman to be elected district attorney of San Francisco, before becoming California's attorney general from 2011 to 2018. 2017. As a woman, Kamala Harris is likely to get a better score than Joe Biden, but especially than Donald Trump, with American female voters. Democrats historically record good scores with this electorate and hope to capitalize more on these votes with their candidate.

If Kamala Harris is a pure Democrat from California who convinces in historically Democratic states, she may have more difficulty convincing in the Midwestern states that lean towards the Democratic side. Republican or swing from one camp to the other depending on the polls. To win over this electorate, his running mate Tim Walz could be a good asset. Governor of Minnesota, the politician is so popular in the Midwest that he was appointed to replace Josh Shapiro, another Democrat popular in this region of the United States. The candidate The vice presidency also provides a balance and reassurance to the male electorate as a white man alongside a black female candidate.