Marathon weekend for Trump and Harris at the close of the election campaign in the United States

This weekend, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump embark on a frenetic tour of a handful of highly contested states in search of the undecided vote for the elections in the United States. The Democratic vice president and her rival, the former Republican president, remain in a technical tie in the polls.

Both They focus on key states, where candidates often win narrowlyunlike the others who are traditionally Republicans or Democrats.

The former senator, who is seeking to become the country’s first female president, will use rallies in Georgia, North Carolina and Michigan to emphasize her message that Trump is a threat to American democracy.

Harris asks voters to “turn the page” on Trump, whom she describes as an authoritarian. “He is someone who is increasingly unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed by resentment, and the man seeks unchecked power,” he told his followers in Little Chute, Wisconsin.

The tycoon wants to recover the keys to the White House. If he succeeds, he would become the first president with a criminal conviction and four indictments behind him.

In an interview with Fox News on Saturday morning, Nov. 2, Trump criticized the state of the economy based on disappointing jobs numbers released Friday. It’s “a gift to me,” he said.

And he attacked a Democratic television ad in which wives of his supporters are seen secretly voting for Harris. “Can you imagine a wife who doesn’t tell her husband who she is going to vote for?“he asked himself. The 78-year-old Republican knows that, according to polls, women prefer Harris and men prefer him.

And it’s hard for the trend to have changed after he commented that he will protect women “whether they like it or not.”

In economics, the magnate intends to defend the industrial fabric of his country, if necessary with aggressive trade wars and tariffs of up to 200%. A message that will be repeated this weekend in North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Georgia.

Trump has hardened his rhetoric to the extreme, especially anti-immigrant rhetoric, to mobilize his bases. “Illegal migrants coming to this country kill people every day” and “are unleashing a violent wave of murders throughout the United States,” he claimed lately without evidence.

“Kamala’s final message to America is that she hates you,” he said Friday night in Warren, Michigan. “Nothing is more dangerous than giving immense power to a very weak and incompetent person with an extremely low IQ,” Trump said hours later in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Harris has surrounded herself with artists and athletes as a springboard to reach young people and Latinos, two important voters in extremely close elections. The list is long: Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Cardi B, LeBron James, Megan Rapinoe, Billie Jean King, Stephen Curry and Jennifer Lopez, the pop diva of Puerto Rican origin, or the Mexican band Maná are some of them.

“What are we talking about here? When I think about my children, my family and how they will grow up, I am clear about my vote. VOTE FOR KAMALA HARRIS!!,” LeBron said. His message came in the final stretch of the campaign, but Curry, who along with James and Kevin Durant is the best NBA player of his generation, has shown his support on several occasions in recent months, so much so that the charismatic point guard The Golden State Warriors participated in the Democratic convention by videoconference in August and with the Paris 2024 Olympic gold around their neck.

“Supporting her is an honor. A sophisticated leader who I am confident will be able to lead our country, bring hope, inspiration, unity.. There are many issues to face in our country, much progress to be made. But a level of decency and humanity in a top leadership position is essential and she has it,” Curry said in late September at the NBA media day.

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Other NBA heavyweights have also opted for Harris such as Chris Paul or, from the benches, two icons such as Gregg Popovich or Steve Kerr, who also participated in person at the Democratic convention. Likewise, two basketball legends such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson also signed up for ‘Team Harris’.

Something similar can be said of the WNBA, in which the list of supporters of the Democrat among players and former players is as long as it is illustrious: Diana Taurasi, A’ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart, Sue Bird, Candace Parker and Dawn Staley.

It is clear that not only active athletes have mobilized for Harris. There, for example, important personalities and references in the US appear, such as Billie Jean King in tennis, Carl Lewis in athletics or Megan Rapinoe in soccer.

In the final stretch, fear increases of a possible outbreak of violence if Trump loses and refuses to acknowledge his defeat, as he did in 2020. Businesses in the capital, Washington, have begun to protect their shop windows. Local authorities consider “unpredictable” what may happen after the polls close.

For now, Trump and members of his entourage maintain that there has been fraud and “cheating” in key states such as Pennsylvania.

On everyone’s mind are the images of a mob of Trump supporters attacking the Capitol on January 6, 2021 in an attempt to prevent the certification of current President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.