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In a speech to his Christian voters on Friday, Trump said that “in four years you won’t have to vote again.”

He also accused opponent Kamala Harris of being anti-Semitic.

– He puts on a show in front of the audience, says US connoisseur Emma Ricknell.

  • Donald Trump gave a speech to the Christian conservative group “Turning Point America” ​​in Florida, where he promised that if he wins, Christians will not have to vote again in four years.
  • Emma Ricknell, a US expert at Linnaeus University, comments that Trump’s statements are often exaggerated and form part of his show for the public, but emphasizes the gap in the view of democracy after the storming of the Capitol.
  • Trump also accused Kamala Harris of anti-Semitism and wanting to introduce extreme abortion laws, which Ricknell says could indicate a hardening election strategy.

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    During Friday local time, Republican President Donald Trump gave a speech to the Christian conservative group “Turning Point America” ​​in Florida. At the end of the speech, he urged his Christian constituents to go and vote.

    – Christians, go out and vote just this once. You won’t have to do it again. Four more years, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you will not have to vote again my beautiful Christians, I love you Christians, he says and continues:

    – In four years you will not have to vote again. We will have it so well organized that you won’t have to vote.

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    full screen USA expert Emma Ricknell. Photo: Linnaeus University

    Emma Ricknell is a US connoisseur at Linne University. She thinks the statement is strange.

    – To me, it sounds like he means that the movement will be so strong that they won’t have to work to gather votes. But that’s a very strange way of saying it, she says.

    “He puts on a show for the audience”

    According to her, Trump always says things that are “incredibly exaggerated”.

    – He puts on a show in front of the audience and it’s strange that he doesn’t think that what he says there will be listened to by people everywhere, she says.

    Since the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the Democratic Party has carried the rhetoric that Donald Trump and his allies are extremists willing to deny voters the right to vote and stay in power, reports New York Times. Now, however, Republicans are trying to turn the narrative around.

    – It is the way the 2020 election ended that could be singled out as the most explicit example of the problem with Trump and how he views democracy, it is difficult to escape, says Emma Ricknell.

    She sees a risk that the same situation could happen again now that the election is about to begin.

    – I think some people are afraid of that. I think it’s hard to escape the fact that it could happen again.

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    The attacks on Kamala Harris

    But Trump didn’t just urge his constituents to vote — he also took a real jab at opponent Kamala Harris. He called her anti-Semitic and accused her of “murdering children”.

    – If Kamala Harris gets her way, she will introduce a federal abortion law that allows you to tear the baby out of the womb in the eighth or ninth month and also execute babies after birth, Trump said during his speech.

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    Emma Ricknell thinks it sounds like he is now stepping up the rhetoric properly.

    – The abortion issue in particular may become very central. From what we know, Trump’s election strategy is to attack his opponent, she says and continues:

    – The abortion issue is an area where Harris has conducted his politics very much. Trump goes extra hard on that very point.

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