Photo: Saul Loeb Agence France-Presse Accompanied by her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Kamala Harris stopped at a high school, where she attended the school's marching band rehearsal, on Wednesday, in Georgia.
Saul Loeb – Agence France-Presse and Aurélia End – Agence France-Presse in Savannah and Washington
Published yesterday at 9:19 p.m.
- United States
Fresh from her triumphant inauguration in Chicago, Kamala Harris is entering a new phase of her campaign, ten weeks before a presidential election that still promises to be very close, and while her rival Donald Trump is, like her, scouring the strategic states.
The Democratic vice president, running against the former Republican president, took a bus trip to Georgia on Wednesday, one of the seven “swing states” where the November 5 election promises to be particularly competitive.
Accompanied by her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, she stopped at a high school, where she attended a rehearsal of the school's marching band, then at a restaurant.
Kamala Harris believes she has a chance of keeping Georgia, a state that has voted for the Republican presidential candidate since 1996, but which President Joe Biden won narrowly in 2020.
It is also in this southern state that the The 59-year-old Democrat will give her first interview as a candidate on CNN on Thursday, along with her running mate.
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Interview then debate
A close adviser to her Republican opponent, Jason Miller, criticized Kamala Harris for using Tim Walz as a “human shield” in an interview with the Newsmax channel, one of the favorites of the radical right.
The interview with the reporter Dana Bash will air at 9 p.m., CNN said.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000The vice president, who has bitter memories of a failed interview at the start of her term on the subject of immigration, was facing increasing pressure to answer questions from a major American media outlet.
Since her sensational entry into the campaign, following Joe Biden's stunning withdrawal on July 21, she has limited herself to very brief exchanges with journalists or meetings with influencers.
The interview on CNN should be followed on September 10 by the next highlight of this extraordinary campaign: the highly anticipated debate with Donald Trump on ABC.
The former Republican president assured Tuesday that an “agreement” had been reached on the technical arrangements for the debate, two days after threatening not to participate, which the Harris camp did not confirmed.
“Swing states”
Kamala Harris has gained some momentum in the polls and is fresh off a triumphant Democratic nomination convention in Chicago.
But the race remains extremely tight, particularly in the famous “swing states” on which both candidates are now focusing their efforts.
Donald Trump, who was in Michigan on Monday, returns there on Thursday before heading to Wisconsin. He will then head to Pennsylvania on Friday.
His rival has a very similar program, since she will also be in Michigan and Pennsylvania on Monday, September 2, Labor Day.
The 78-year-old Republican can count on a very stable base, and even more fervent since he was the victim of an assassination attempt on July 13.
The numerous legal proceedings weighing on him do not change anything, and even further mobilize “Trumpists” convinced that their candidate is the victim, as he repeated again on Tuesday, of a “witch hunt.”
Polls
The site FiveThirtyEight, which aggregates several polls, credits the vice president with a lead of around three points over her Republican rival.
This in no way guarantees her of winning the majority of the votes of the electors.
The Republican billionaire multiplies the attacks against the personality of his rival, whom he describes as “not very intelligent,” and against her balance sheet.
“Five weeks ago […] she was considered a terrible vice president,” Donald Trump said during an interview broadcast Tuesday with Dr. Phil, a former American television star.
Kamala Harris' campaign team, for its part, released a video attacking the “2025 Project,” a very conservative government program developed by people close to Donald Trump.
The former president wants to have “total control” of the country, warns the narrator of the capsule in a serious voice.