After Taylor Swift or Bruce Springsteen, the parade of stars continues alongside Kamala Harris with support from Beyoncé expected at a meeting in Texas this Friday. Donald Trump continues to attract male voters, particularly African-Americans and Latinos, from the Democratic camp.
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.
- Kamala Harris continues her offensive against Donald Trump supported by strong supporters like Barack Obama. “We don’t need four years of an aspiring king, an aspiring dictator,” said the former president of the United States during a meeting in Georgia on Thursday. The Democratic candidate is also supported by many stars: Bruce Springsteen, Spilke Lee and Samuel L. Jackson and this Friday the support of the singer Beyoncé is expected in Texas. Before that Eminem, Stevie Wonder and even Taylor Swift took the side of the vice-president. Varied profiles which allow us to speak to several electorates, the influence of artists on the result of the American presidential election being proven.
- Donald Trump is also going to Texas this Friday, but he has chosen to focus on the male electorate, including African-American and Latino usually won over to the Democratic camp, by granting an interview to the first American podcast listened mainly to men .
- The Republican candidate was described as “fascist” by Kamala Harris, but also by his former chief of staff at the White House, John Kelly, who claimed to have heard Donald Trump say that Hitler had done good things. denied by the Republican.
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08:25 – Trump is a “wannabe dictator” denounces Obama
“We don’t need four years of an aspiring king, an aspiring dictator,” Barack Obama said on the stage of Kamala Harris’ meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, Thursday evening, asserting that the Republican candidate was trying always “to sell something” and that he only cared about “his ego, his money, his status”. A speech intended to highlight Kamala Harris, whom the former American president elected in 2008 and 2012 considers “ready for the job”: “If you elect Kamala Harris… she will focus on you”.
08:16 – Donald Trump talks to men, Kamala Harris focuses on women
The two candidates for the presidential election are going to Texas this Friday, October 25, but they will opt for very different strategies. Donald Trump responds to an invitation to the podcast from Joe Rogan, the host of the most popular podcast in the United States but followed mainly by men. The Republican candidate continues his logic of convincing the male electorate in this election which pits him against a woman. Kamala Harris will give a speech to women discussing the right to abortion, the consequences of the ban and poor medical care for women in general.
08:09 – A myriad of stars… and Beyoncé expected at Kamala Harris’ meetings
Kamala Harris continues to be supported by Barack Obama during his latest meetings and the pair have reappropriated the slogan “Yes we can” to mobilize the electorate less than 10 days before the presidential election. But the vice-president also counts on the support of a host of stars: Bruce Springsteen, Spike Lee and even Samuel L. Jackson were present at Thursday’s meeting in Georgia, one of the highly coveted swing states. And this parade of stars should end in apotheosis this Friday with the presence of Beyoncé expected at a meeting in Texas, another swing state of weight. The support of the American star is rare enough to be highlighted.
10/24/24 – 11:51 p.m. – Beyoncé alongside Kamala Harris on Friday
The Democratic candidate will be able to count on the precious support of singer Beyoncé this Friday. From Houston, his birthplace, the icon, whose song Freedom has established itself as the anthem of Kamala Harris’ campaign, will take the stage to support her a few days before the end of the campaign. Yesterday, we were already talking about the arrival of Bruce Springsteen at another Kamala Harris rally, who is counting on the notoriety of these different personalities to convince the last undecided while the match against Donald Trump promises to be more than close.
10/24/24 – 10:35 p.m. – When Barack Obama promotes early voting
In a rather amusing video posted to social media, former President Barack Obama shows how easy it is to vote by mail. After preparing his envelope, the former tenant of the White House got out of his car in the middle of the street in Chicago, under the amused gaze of passers-by, and went himself on foot to the post office box where he dropped off his carefully packaged ballot. In these last days of the campaign, calls are increasing in the different camps to invite Americans to vote in advance in the 2024 presidential election.
24/10/24 – 9:01 p.m. – Kamala Harris welcomes the support of Republicans, according to her, who are aware of “what is at stake”
The mayor of Waukesha in Wisconsin, Shawn Reilly, and the former member of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 2023, Fred Upton, both Republicans, gave their support to the Democrat. A point returned to by vice-president and candidate Kamala Harris this Thursday. “Regardless of political party, people who have been leaders in our country understand what is at stake and are courageously speaking out, many of them, in favor of what we need, which is a President of the United States who be aware of the obligation to uphold the American Constitution and our democracy,” she declared from Philadelphia to the press.
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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.