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Eight days before the election, Trump and Harris resume their campaign at loggerheads

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Photo: Logan Cyrus and Ronda Churchill Agence France-Presse More than 41 million Americans have already voted early in this election between Donald Trump and Kamale Harris, which is shaping up to be the closest in modern US history.

Camille Camdessus – Agence France-Presse and Sébastien Blanc – Agence France-Presse in Atlanta

Published at 8:20 a.m. Updated at 2:27 p.m.

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Kamala Harris in the north of the United States and Donald Trump in the south are continuing their frantic campaign for the White House on Monday, marked by new virulent remarks at a rally by the Republican.

The septuagenarian's campaign team had to distance itself from a statement by a comedian invited onto the stage of Madison Square Garden, the very famous venue in New York where thousands of the former president's supporters had converged on Sunday.

Puerto Rico, a US territory, is “a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean,” declared Tony Hinchcliffe, instantly triggering a lively controversy.

The New York metropolitan area has more than a million inhabitants of Puerto Rican origin and Pennsylvania, a crucial state for the presidential election on November 5, has half a million.

“This joke does not reflect the opinion of the president” Trump, said one of his spokespeople, seeking to limit possible losses in this electorate.

In contrast, Kamala Harris immediately capitalized on the controversy, promising in a video to “chart a new and happy path forward” for Puerto Rico.

Several stars born on the island, such as reggaeton prince Bad Bunny and singer Ricky Martin, have shown their support for Kamala Harris on Instagram.

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Biden vote

The vice president and her running mate Tim Walz are scheduled to travel to all seven of the most contested swing states this week.

The 60-year-old candidate begins Monday in Michigan, with a trip focused on manufacturing in the Great Lakes state.

Donald Trump heads to Georgia, a “Bible Belt” state he wants to win after losing by just 11,000 votes in 2020.

Nearly 43 million Americans have already cast early ballots in what is shaping up to be the closest race in modern U.S. history, and which has kept world diplomacy on edge as wars rage in the U.S. Ukraine and the Middle East.

Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds Agence France-Presse President Joe Biden leaves the polling booth after voting early at a polling place in New Castle, Delaware.

President Joe Biden cast his own ballot Monday in his home state of Delaware. The 81-year-old Democrat has been largely sidelined by his vice president, who knows she has a vested interest in distancing herself from the unpopular, age-challenged leader.

The octogenarian described as “totally inappropriate” the initiative of billionaire Elon Musk who, in order to support Donald Trump, offers a million dollars each day to a voter drawn at random in a key state, on the condition that they sign a petition defending Republican ideas.

Trump courts Christians

At the national level, the polls still give neck and neck to Kamala Harris, who would become the first black female president of the United States, and Donald Trump, candidate for the third time for the White House, which he left in chaos in 2021.

Illustrating the ambient tensions, two metal ballot boxes, containing hundreds of ballots deposited early, were the target of arson attacks Kamala Harris gave an interview with CBS on Monday in which she said she was willing to take a cognitive assessment, calling on her 78-year-old rival to “take the same” test.

“He is increasingly unstable and unbalanced,” she said, deeming him “unfit” to serve as president.

Donald Trump will address a gathering of pastors and religious leaders before holding a rally in Atlanta.

The Republican has been able to count on the support of evangelical Christians in his previous campaigns, having appointed three conservative justices to the Supreme Court during his tenure in the White House, thus contributing to the end of the guarantee of the right to abortion at the federal level.

Kamala Harris, who has made defending abortion rights one of her campaign priorities, will likely include this theme in the “final indictment” she plans to deliver against Donald Trump on Tuesday, in a speech a stone’s throw from the White House, where Donald Trump had harangued his supporters on January 6, 2021, just before they attacked the Capitol.

On Sunday in New York, the Republican tribune posed as the savior of the United States, according to him “destroyed” by Kamala Harris.

Teilor Stone

Teilor Stone has been a reporter on the news desk since 2013. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining Thesaxon , Teilor Stone worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my teilor@nizhtimes.com 1-800-268-7116

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