“Full of lies”, “incompetent”, Trump and Harris strengthen their attacks

One month before the presidential election, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris Harris traded blows Sunday, calling each other incompetent and “full of lies,” while as the race for the White House enters its final stretch.

A guest on the very popular podcast “Call Her Daddy”, with a largely female audience, the Democratic vice-president resumed her denunciation of violence against women and defended the right to abortion, in particular, pointing out the “lies” of Donald Trump, who accused her of being in favor of “executing babies” in the eighth or ninth month of pregnancy.

“It is scandalously inaccurate and insulting to make people believe that this happens, that women do this. This man is full of lies,” she hammered home.

While the Republican candidate tried several times to pose as a “protector” of women during his campaign, Ms. Harris recalled that “this is the same man who said that women should be punished for having aborted”.

Abortion is one of the major subjects of the campaign, on which the Democrats intend to capitalize while the ex-president tries for his part to avoid taking a clear position, defending the fact that it is the states which must decide.

This podcast marked the first stage of a media marathon that will see Kamala Harris speaking throughout the week on various prime-time television and radio shows, including evening shows such as “The Howard Stern Show” and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” which are generally considered favorable to her campaign.

– “Grossly incompetent” –

Donald Trump went to Wisconsin (north), one of the key states, for the fourth time for a rally in the small town of Juneau, where he rolled out his usual campaign themes, from controlling immigration to reducing inflation and taxation, and once again accusing his rival of wanting to pursue a “communist” policy.

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Vice President Kamala Harris in North Carolina on October 5, 2024 © AFP – Logan Cyrus

But the former president went further, judging Ms. Harris “grossly incompetent”, taking as an example the lack of federal response, according to him, to help the populations of the southeastern United States who were badly affected by the hurricane Helen.

“This is someone who will steal your fortune and abandon you and your family when the waters rise,” he summed up.

In front of several hundred people, the Republican candidate reminded everyone that early voting was open in Wisconsin: “I ask only one thing of you, go out and vote.”

Donald Trump lost Wisconsin in 2020 to Joe Biden. On Sunday, he was there for the fourth time in eight days, the day after a triumphant return to Butler (Pennsylvania) where he narrowly escaped an assassination attempt on July 13.

– Key states at the center of the campaign –

Opinion polls show the two candidates neck and neck, fueling a frantic race to try to convince every voter in the seven so-called “key” states that will decide the outcome of the November 5 election.

The indirect universal suffrage voting system means that in the United States, the presidential election is not decided by the votes cast throughout the country but by those of electors, the number of which varies depending on the state.

Thus, from Michigan to Arizona, via Nevada, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina, the key states where Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are concentrating their campaigns, victory should be decided by a few tens of thousands of votes.

Vice President Harris was in Wisconsin on Thursday, in Ripon, where the Republican Party was born and she has appeared with Republican Liz Cheney, a figure of the anti-Trump right.

Kamala Harris will also campaign in the states of Nevada and Arizona, in the west of the country.

In the meantime, she will be able to count on a strong supporter in the person of Barack Obama.

Still very popular, the first black president in the history of the United States will go to the field in several key states between now and the election, starting on Thursday in Pittsburgh, an industrial stronghold in Pennsylvania, a state that is more essential than ever for these elections.

At 63, Barack Obama remains one of the most influential voices in the Democratic electorate and has already raised more than 76 million dollars in campaign funds this year. But he had not yet hit the campaign trail.

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