Less than ten days before the still uncertain US presidential elections, Donald Trump plans to fill the legendary Madison Square Garden in New York with red hats this Sunday, October 27, while Kamala Harris sweeps Philadelphia, in the crucial state of Pennsylvania.
While the Democratic candidate has shown the support of several popular culture icons in recent days, such as Bruce Springsteen or Beyoncé, Donald Trump expects a show of force with his followers in “the most famous arena in the world”, where the Rolling Stones Stones, Madonna, U2 and the popular NBA and ice hockey teams, the Knicks and the Rangers.
For her part, Kamala Harris plans to call “neighborhood by neighborhood” voting, according to her campaign team, with emphasis on the black and Latino communities, to supply herself with votes in one of the seven disputed states that will be decisive in the elections. on November 5, one of the closest in American history according to polls.
Elon Musk will accompany Donald Trump on stage
In New York, a Democratic bastion where he was born and where he made his fortune in the real estate sector – several skyscrapers bear his name – before being convicted several times by civil and criminal courts, Donald Trump intends to present himself as the “best option to fix everything that Kamala Harris broke,” according to her campaign team.
A way to refer once again to the record of the vice president’s Biden administration, which he has continued to attack, between personal insults (“drugged”, “idiot”) about inflation, immigration and insecurity.
On Sunday at 5 p.m. in New York (10 p.m. Paris time), Donald Trump will take the stage, with his omnipresent campaign ally, the billionaire owner of Tesla and X Elon Musk, or even the great man of mixed martial arts (MMA). ) Dana White.
Perhaps he also responds to those who draw a parallel between his increasingly authoritarian, populist and nationalist speeches, and the choice of Madison Square Garden, the scene of an impressive Nazi demonstration in 1939.
“His first priority will be people like him”
The vice president will respond on Tuesday. He will make his own accusation against Trump a stone’s throw from the White House, the place where he harangued his followers on January 6, 2021, just before they attacked the Capitol.
“I’m doing it here because I think it’s very important for the American people to think about who will occupy the Oval Office on January 20,” he explained in an interview on CBS on Sunday, referring to the “danger” posed by Donald Trump and his policies.
“His first priority will be people like him” and not “working people, older people.”
The 78-year-old Republican, who would be the oldest president in US history to take office if elected, vowed not to be a dictator “except on the first day” of closing US borders. He also promises to expel millions of immigrants from the United States whom he accuses of “poisoning the blood of the country.”
On Saturday, during a meeting in Pennsylvania, after a stop in another crucial state, Michigan, he again accused “Kamala (Harris) of organizing an invasion of criminal immigrants from prisons and psychiatric hospitals around the world, from Venezuela to the Congo also accused journalists of being “enemies of the people.”
Kamala Harris had the support of Michelle Obama, one of Americans’ favorite personalities. The former first lady of the United States expressed her “real fear” of seeing Donald Trump return to the White House, who never acknowledged his defeat in 2020 and was accused by federal justice of attempting to illegally reverse the results of the vote.
“How can it be that this race is so close?” he insisted, implying that misogyny is part of the answer. Then, addressing the men: “From the depths of my being, I ask you to take our lives seriously.”
Source: BFM TV
