Photo: Jacquelyn Martin Pool via Agence France-Presse Kamala Harris, who suffers from a clear reputation deficit compared to her Republican rival, is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the campaign in an attempt to gain an upper hand in the race for the White House.
Camille Camdessus – Agence France-Presse in Washington
Published at 10:56
- United States
Kamala Harris in an interview, Donald Trump with Latino voters: the candidates for the White House continue at a brisk pace on Tuesday, two weeks to the day before an election that is as undecided as it is thrilling.
Will the former Republican president, convicted of criminal charges at the end of May, pull off one of the greatest “comebacks” in American political history on November 5? ?
Will the Democratic vice president, who has only been campaigning for three months, become the first woman to lead the world's leading power? ?
Whatever the outcome, the American presidential election will be historic in any case.
Especially since, with 14 days to go before the election, no clear winner has emerged.
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Recent opinion polls appear to give a slight advantage to Donald Trump, who at age 78 is running his third consecutive presidential campaign. But that lead is consistently within the margin of error. It’s hard to draw any conclusions.
More than 17 million Americans have already voted by mail or in person, according to the independent organization Elections Project, or more than 10% of the total turnout in 2020.
Obama in two key states
Kamala Harris, who suffers from a clear awareness deficit compared to her Republican rival, is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the campaign in an attempt to gain the upper hand in the race for the White House.
After targeting the black electorate, the Democrat is campaigning for the black vote Latin Americans.
“Donald Trump has disrespected and insulted Latino men and their communities. As president, I will invest in them,” she wrote on X, listing elements of her platform that would favor Latino men.
On Tuesday, in addition to an interview with NBC, she is recording an interview with Spanish-language network Telemundo, which will air Wednesday.
Former President Barack Obama will hold political rallies in Wisconsin and Michigan, two of the seven most contested states in this election, which is being held by indirect universal suffrage.
Trump and his excesses
Donald Trump, who is increasingly poisoning his rhetoric against migrants, will take part in a roundtable with Latino voters from one of his properties in Florida.
The candidate will then fly to North Carolina, where he was already campaigning on Monday, for an event that is supposed to be devoted to the economy, even if the Republican does not hesitate to regularly abandon his teleprompter for more spontaneous, or even downright disjointed, remarks.
A tide of supporters in red hats continues to flock to his campaign rallies, fundamentally convinced that their champion, the first former American president to be convicted of criminal offenses, is the victim of political persecution. Even the Democrats are directly fomenting the threats against him, starting with the two assassination attempts against him.
The Democrats are courting moderate Republican voters who may have been put off by Donald Trump's excesses.
As in 2016 and 2020, a few tens of thousands of votes in a handful of states should determine whether the former prosecutor or the billionaire will garner the 270 electoral votes that are synonymous with victory.