“Yes we can!” Kamala Harris took up Barack Obama’s famous slogan on Thursday, October 24 in Atlanta during a campaign rally in which the first black American president appeared as a “guest star” alongside Bruce Springsteen.
One with his microphone, the other with his guitar, the two men warmed up the room and called on the voters of Georgia to mobilize in the final stretch of the presidential elections on November 5. It is the first time since the start of the campaign that the former president appears alongside the Democratic candidate on the same stage.
“Donald Trump campaigns to be an American tyrant”
At the same time, Donald Trump concluded a speech in Arizona, another state that will be decisive for these elections examined by the entire world.
“We are a garbage dump, we are like the garbage of the world,” said the 78-year-old Republican, who continues to toughen his immigration rhetoric, meeting after meeting.
“We are going to clean up our country and expel the criminals,” he added in the afternoon during a meeting in Nevada, Arizona’s neighboring state, in Las Vegas.
He then resumed his insults against the vice president – “she is tremendously incompetent. Kamala, you’re fired. Get out of here” – and his rhetoric of calling the United States a country “occupied” by immigrants. “November 5 will be Liberation Day.”
The two candidates are focusing their efforts on the seven crucial states in which neither has managed to widen the gap beyond the margin of error: Georgia and Arizona, but also Nevada, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan and Wisconsin.
In Georgia, Bruce Springsteen praised Kamala Harris. “She is campaigning to be the 47th president of the United States. Donald Trump is campaigning to be an American tyrant,” he said.
Donald Trump “does not understand this country, its history and what it means to be truly American,” declared the American rock legend, insisting on the American dream also through the choice of the three hits he performed: “The Promised Land,” “Land of Hope and Dreams” and “Dancing in the Dark.”
But it was Barack Obama who had the honor of introducing the vice president of the United States on stage, before giving him a hug.
Last Sunday, the vice president was already in the Atlanta area, where she spoke at two churches attended by African-American faithful. He registered relatively disappointing voting intentions among this electorate, a category of voters that is, however, predominantly Democratic.
According to the American press, on Friday Beyoncé will perform during an election rally for Kamala Harris in Texas, a Republican state where the Democratic candidate intends to denounce the restrictions and bans on abortion in twenty states.
Faced with Donald Trump, whom she publicly described on Wednesday as a “fascist”, the 60-year-old candidate decided to bet everything on the defense of democracy before November 5, at a time when no poll managed to separate her from the former. Republican president.
He was responding to a question about comments by the Republican’s former White House chief of staff, John Kelly, who said that the former president had said that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler had “done good things.”
According to The Atlantic magazine, which cites two anonymous sources, Donald Trump also said that he “needs the same generals as Hitler.”
In Las Vegas, shortly before their meeting, Donald Trump stated that “he had never said that. He is a rag. He makes up stories, he had done it in the past. Just before the elections. It is a magazine that is sinking.”
The Republican also wants to dramatize, in his own way, the issues of the elections, presenting himself as a bulwark against the supposed “decadence” of the leading world power.
In an interview on Thursday, he also promised that, if he wins, he would remove “in seconds” a special prosecutor in charge of investigating his role in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, following his defeat in the November presidential election. of 2020, which he never acknowledged.
Source: BFM TV
