Attacks against Kamala Harris and racist excesses arose during Donald Trump’s last campaign meeting, this Sunday, October 27 in New York.
The essentials
- The US presidential election will be held on November 5, 2024, but Americans have already started voting since the end of September with early voting gradually opening in the different states.
- The Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris are the main candidates in the US presidential election. They are neck and neck in national and state poll results. In the seven swing states which will tilt the vote one way or the other, the gap is also very tight with an advantage which passes in turn from Trump to Harris.
- Sunday October 27, a highly anticipated meeting for the Republican camp was held in the legendary Madison Square Garden hall in New York. A meeting which brought together 20,000 people as well as people close to Donald Trump such as Elon Musk, Robert Francis Kennedy Jr, and the former conservative Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
- The meeting was marked by numerous controversial remarks concerning immigrants and certain communities in the United States, whether from Trump himself or through some of his speakers. Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, for example, compared Puerto Rico to “a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean.”
- During the evening, Donald Trump took another dig at his competitor by calling Kamala Harris incompetent, before Tucker Carlson slipped up by targeting the Democrat’s origins, calling her a “Samoan-Malaysian with a low intelligence quotient” . As a reminder, the Vice-President of the United States has Jamaican and Indian origins.
- Finally, one of the Republican candidate’s advisers spoke to the crowd to declare that “America is for Americans and Americans only.” An activist called Harris an “antichrist” while brandishing a crucifix in a white-hot room.
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10:12 – Trump slams Harris’ record and promises to ‘preserve (the country) from war’
In New York, crime has skyrocketed since Covid-19 and unemployment has now reached 5.2%, an assessment that Donald Trump did not fail to highlight during his meeting at Madison Square Garden this Sunday: ” Are you in a better situation than four years ago?” “No,” the audience responded overwhelmingly. He took the opportunity to highlight his program and reaffirm his desire to implement the largest project for the expulsion of irregular migrants. For him, the United States is now an “occupied country, which he will “liberate on the first day” of his return to the White House. “I am the only president who in eighty-four years has not “the beginning of war (…) My rhetoric will protect us from war,” he told the crowd.
09:16 – Democratic campaign HQ targeted by shooting in Arizona
In Tempe, near Phoenix, the windows of a Democratic campaign headquarters were shot at, as revealed in a report by France Info. In recent weeks, the office has been fired upon three times. After the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, violence seems to have taken over this campaign more generally, creating a heavy political climate in the country. The last shootings took place on October 6 according to ABC News. While it is impossible to say precisely that the premises were indeed targeted for political reasons, the “Arizona for Harris” signs inside leave little room for doubt. “I didn’t think this kind of thing could happen here,” said a woman who works near the Democrats’ headquarters.
08:34 – Star Ricky Martin is outraged after Trump’s comments on Puerto Rico
During Donald Trump’s meeting this Sunday, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe compared Puerto Rico to “a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean”, enough to trigger a real outcry on social networks and the reactions of certain people. stars of this community. Singer Ricky Martin, in particular, was indignant: “This is what they think of us,” he declared. He then advised his 18 million subscribers to support the Democratic candidate on November 5: “vote for Kamala Harris”.
08:23 – A meeting criticized before its time and compared to a Nazi rally
Even before the start of the meeting, the location posed a problem due to a Nazi rally which had been held in the same room in 1939. In fact, a pro-Hitler American organization, the German-American Bund, had organized a meeting at the Madison Square Garden. A similarity denounced by Hillary Clinton on CNN, former opponent of Donald Trump in 2016. This Sunday, Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’ running mate, confirmed for his part that there was a “direct parallel” between the two events. Donald Trump’s campaign team refutes his arguments, calling the comments “disgusting.”
08:12 – “America is for Americans and Americans only”
New controversies for Trump a big week before the election. This Sunday, September 27, during a campaign meeting at Madison Square Garden in New York, the Republican candidate accompanied by his close guard including Elon Musk, did not hesitate to multiply the controversial, even racist, outings against of Kamala Harris and certain communities residing in the United States.
After once again recalling the “incompetence” of his competitor, he accused her of having opened the country’s floodgates to bring in millions of “criminal” migrants, but that’s not all. Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson called the US vice president a “low IQ” Malaysian-Samoan. In reality, Kamala Harris has Jamaican origins through her father and Indian origins through her mother. A Trump advisor, Stephen Miller, did not hesitate to say that: “America is for Americans and Americans only”, before an activist called Harris “the antichrist” by brandishing a crucifix under the applause from the audience.
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What you need to know
The US presidential election will take place on November 5, 2024 and will mainly be between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris, despite the presence of a few other small candidates in the race for the White House. The election promises to be particularly close this year, according to the various national polls or those carried out in each state. In the United States, it is the results of the state-by-state vote that are decisive for the outcome of the election.
Each of the country’s 50 states represents a certain number of electors; the more populated the state, the greater the number of electors. It is ultimately these electors who vote for the future president of the United States. But the major voters are not distributed to the Republican and Democratic camps in proportion to the results of the vote, they all go to one and the same party: the one which obtained the highest score. To hope to win the presidential election, candidates must win the vote in as many states as possible to obtain as many electors as possible. You must win 270 electoral votes to be assured of victory.
The outcome of the election is already known in most American states which have very ingrained electoral habits: the territories on the east and west coasts are usually very progressive like California or New York and vote for the Democratic camp. , those in the Midwest are rather conservative and mostly support the Republican Party. But there are a handful of states, called swing states, which can swing from one camp to another from one election to another. These are the states that decide the outcome of the election: Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.