Photo: Chris Carlson Associated Press Kamala Harris in Charlotte, North Carolina, Saturday
Léon Bruneau – Agence France-Presse in Washington
Published yesterday at 9:30 p.m.
- United States
A month before the presidential election, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris went at it head-to-head on Sunday, accusing each other of incompetence and being “full of lies,” 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 outrageously inaccurate and insulting to suggest that this is happening, that women are doing this. This man is full of lies,” she hammered home.
While the Republican candidate has repeatedly tried to pose as a “protector” of women during his campaign, Ms. Harris recalled that “this is the same guy who said women should be punished for having abortions.”
Abortion is one of the major topics of the campaign, on which the Democrats intend to capitalize while the former president is trying to avoid taking a clear position, defending the fact that it is the states that should decide.
This podcast marked the first step in a media marathon that should lead Kamala Harris to speak out throughout the week on various prime-time television and radio shows, particularly on evening programs such as The Howard Stern Show or The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which are generally considered favorable to his campaign.
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“Grossly incompetent”
Donald Trump, for his part, went to Wisconsin, 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 to taxation, and once again accusing his rival of wanting to pursue a “communist” policy.
But the former president went further, judging Ms. Harris “grossly incompetent”, taking as an example the lack of a federal response, according to him, to come to the aid of the populations of the southeastern United States who were badly affected by hurricane Helene.
“This is someone who is going to steal your fortune and abandon you and your family when the waters rise,” he said. summary.
In front of several hundred people, the Republican candidate reminded everyone that early voting was open in Wisconsin: “I only ask 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 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 in the United States means that the presidential election is not decided by the votes cast throughout the country but by those of the electors, whose number varies according to the States.
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 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 The United States will be on the ground in several key states before the election, starting on Thursday with Pittsburgh, the industrial stronghold of Pennsylvania, a state that is more essential than ever for these elections.
At 63, Barack Obama remains a powerful voice in the Democratic electorate, having already raised more than $76 million in campaign funds this year. But he had yet to hit the campaign trail.