A few days before the election, the President of the United States is accused of having described Donald Trump’s supporters as “trash”. The Republican candidate did not miss the opportunity to attempt a publicity stunt by posing in a garbage truck in response.
The essentials
- The US presidential election will take place on November 5, 2024, but 57 million Americans have already started voting early in many states.
- Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris are the main candidates in the US presidential election. National and state poll results remain very close. In the seven swing states that will tilt the vote in favor of one of the candidates, the gap is tiny with an advantage passing from one to the other.
- This Wednesday, Joe Biden made a gaffe that embarrassed the Democratic candidate. The President of the United States is accused of calling supporters Donald Trump “garbage”. For his part, he assured that his words had been misinterpreted and that he wanted above all to oppose the hate speech made last weekend at Donald Trump’s meeting, particularly on Puerto Rico.
- “I want to be clear, I strongly disagree with any criticism based on political preference. […] I will represent all Americans, including those who did not vote for me,” responded Kamala Harris, further distancing herself from the president.
- Donald Trump, for his part, jumped at the opportunity to try a communication stunt by posing in a garbage truck, “in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden”. Wearing an orange vest with reflective stripes, he also told his supporters during a rally: “Kamala and Joe treat you like trash, I see you as the soul of America.”
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09:55 – The two candidates in Nevada and Arizona this Thursday
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will be in Nevada this Thursday, a key state in the American election. In this state, the major issue for the candidates is the Latino community, representing 30% of the inhabitants and 20% of the electorate. Kamala Harris will hold a meeting in Las Vegas alongside Puerto Rican star Jennifer Lopez. The two candidates will also visit Arizona, Trump will notably meet with far-right commentator Tucker Carlson. Kamala Harris, for her part, will attend a rally in Phoenix where the Tigres del Norte group, very popular with the Mexican diaspora, will be present.
09:00 – Donald Trump’s publicity stunt successful?
By posing in a garbage truck in response to Joe Biden’s comments, Donald Trump tried to turn the situation in his favor. The sequence was widely commented on on social networks and as reported Le Figaro, certain disturbing details have been noted by Internet users. They noticed that the former president was struggling to grab the vehicle door handle, trying several times. He also seemed to be dragging his left leg. At 78 years old, this left potential voters questioning his physical health.
08:45 – Donald Trump driving a garbage truck to respond to Joe Biden
Less than a week before the election, Donald Trump attempted a communication stunt, a use of which he is very fond, to respond to Joe Biden. The president is accused of having described the supporters of the Republican candidate as “trash”. The latter first denounced the president’s comments, ensuring that he “finally said what he thought” of the Trumpists. Then, in Wisconsin, Donald Trump put on an orange jacket and posed in a garbage truck: “What do you think of my garbage truck?”, he said, presenting it as “l “honor of Kamala and Joe Biden”. Still wearing his vest, he gave a meeting and released a new tackle targeting Joe Biden, and through him Kamala Harris: “Kamala and Joe treat you like trash, I see you as the soul of America “. Donald Trump thus tried to turn the situation to his advantage. The controversy, in fact, started from his camp after racist remarks at Madison Square Garden in New York on Sunday. Tony Hinchcliffe, a guest comedian on stage, called Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory in the Caribbean, a “floating island of garbage.”
10/30/24 – 11:51 p.m. – When will we know the results of the American presidential election?
The American presidential vote takes place on November 5, 2024. But time difference requires and the United States being a much larger country than France, by comparison, the final results will, for sure, not be known that day . It should indeed already be the morning of November 6 when all Americans finish voting. This election also promises to be close, which should also affect the officialization of the results. Because electoral officials might want to take their time so that the results are unassailable afterwards. The counts should therefore be long, and even longer in the famous key states. During the last presidential election in 2020, Americans were called to the polls on November 3 and the final results announced on November 7, four days later.
10/30/24 – 10:56 p.m. – Electoral fraud? Pennsylvania Secretary of State Responds After Trump Accusations
On Tuesday, Donald Trump assured: in the key state of Pennsylvania, “cheating” on “a scale never seen before” would be underway. Allegations to which the Pennsylvania Secretary of State was keen to shed light this Wednesday. “The people who manage Pennsylvania’s elections at the national level are professional officials who all operate within the framework of the Pennsylvania election code and state laws,” Republican Al Schmidt tried to reassure CNN, saying : “There is no evidence of anything indicating any widespread voter fraud.”
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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 from one election to another can switch from one camp to another. These are the states that decide the outcome of the election: Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.