Harris crisscrosses Wisconsin, Trump leans on Musk

Photo: Nati Harnik Associated Press Wisconsin, the “dairy of America,” is one of six or seven states that are expected to decide the outcome of the American presidential election, which is being held by indirect universal suffrage.

Camille Camdessus – Agence France-Presse in Washington

Posted at 3:36 PM Updated at 8:07 PM

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Nineteen days to convince: Kamala Harris is launching a marathon tour of Wisconsin on Thursday, facing an increasingly offensive Donald Trump, ardently supported by Elon Musk.

The Democrat, a candidate for the White House for less than three months, has set her sights on this Great Lakes state, with a particular focus on young voters.

The vice president, who replaced Joe Biden at short notice in the race, first took part in an economics class at a Milwaukee university to detail her plan for the world's leading power — to which the press did not have access.

“All the Americans »

Before organizing a campaign rally on the other side of the state, during which the candidate pledged to be a “president for all Americans, regardless of their political party, where they live, or how they get their news.”

Kamala Harris, who has been making repeated appeals to moderate Republicans, gave her first interview to Fox News, the conservatives’ favorite channel, on Wednesday.

The show was watched by more than 7.1 million viewers. A record for a political interview during this campaign, according to the channel.

The Democratic candidate will participate Thursday evening in a new campaign event in Wisconsin, a crucial state for the election of November 5.

Known as the “dairy of America,” Wisconsin is one of six or seven states that should decide the outcome of the American presidential election, organized by indirect universal suffrage.

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Kamala Harris and her Republican rival are currently neck and neck, according to the polls — to be taken with a pinch of salt, of course.

The state of six million inhabitants is of particular importance to the Democrats, who passed on it in 2016, handing the keys to the White House to Donald Trump.

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Musk in Pennsylvania

The former president is not neglecting Wisconsin either: it is there that he was crowned in mid-July by his party as the Republican candidate for the election. This large convention with fanfare, was organized only a few days after the first assassination attempt against him.

Like his Democratic rival, the septuagenarian is crisscrossing the country three weeks before an election as indecisive as it is tense. He is also multiplying interviews and rallies, punctuated by statements of rare violence.

At a town hall meeting on Tuesday, he repeated some of his most virulent attacks on migrants, saying that prisons and mental asylums “around the world” were emptying inside the United States.

This week, Donald Trump also called on Kamala Harris to take a “cognitive test,” suggested to Joe Biden — whom he portrays as a declining old man — and engaged in particularly mocking imitations of French President Emmanuel Macron and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

In a podcast broadcast on Thursday, the billionaire, known for having bullied American allies during his term, also assured that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose country was invaded by Russia on February 24, 2022, “should never have” let this war

In the middle of the evening, Donald Trump will participate in a charity gala dinner and will grant a new interview, this time to a Catholic television channel.

In his new campaign for the White House, the former president is also relying on the support of Elon Musk. The richest man on the planet, in addition to financing the Republican's campaign, held his first public meeting with voters on Thursday in the highly coveted state of Pennsylvania.

Photo: Matt Rourke Associated Press Elon Musk held his first public meeting with voters on Thursday in the state of Pennsylvania to support Donald Trump's campaign.

On stage in front of a huge American flag, the Tesla owner explained that he was there because “Pennsylvania is crucial to the future of the world.”

“I can’t stress enough that Pennsylvania is going to decide the fate of America, and with the fate of America, the fate of Western civilization,” he added.