It is this Tuesday, November 5, that the United States will choose a new president. Many have already voted in advance. The campaign will have been eventful, full of dramatic events. A look back at the great moments that marked her.
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We thought that the campaign would be punctuated by Donald Trump’s legal calendar. But it is the age and health of Joe Biden that will have changed the course: after a failed presidential debate at the end of June, where he appeared confused to say the least, he throws in the towel on July 21 and supports her vice-president Kamala Harris as a candidate – which she will be, after having succeeded in rallying the Democratic apparatus behind her in record time.
For Alexis Buisson, independent journalist, author of Kamala Harristhe biography« Kamala Harris had a double challenge, she had to both show that Donald Trump should not come near the Oval Office, so really find the right formula for the electorate that he should not become president again “, he explains. “ Her second challenge was also that she had to finally run for office, because although she has a long political career, American voters as a whole do not know her or do not know her well, unlike the image that we can have abroad. »
Americans don’t really follow politics and are increasingly turning away from it. Kamala Harris ran into this problem of having to introduce herself or represent herself. I think she did the most she could in a very short time. She raised enormous sums of money which she used to open campaign offices, to mobilize volunteers…
Alexis Buisson, independent journalist
Two assassination attempts and shocking statements for Donald Trump
Donald Trumphe always makes the headlines, enters the two assassination attempts of which he was the victimand his statements that constantly force Democrats into a defensive position: he repeats the lies that Haitians in the town of Springfield eat their neighbors’ pets; and he affirms that the federal State – and therefore Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, does nothing to help the victims of Hurricane Helen, which devastated several states at the end of September.
The former Republican president led his third presidential campaign this year and if it could have been an opportunity to do differently this time, it was not, explains Soufian Alsabbagh, specialist in domestic politics of the States -United and author of The New American Right. “ He did not seek to change his candidacy. This is really what he did in style, in rhetoric in 2016 and in 2020. And he is proposing once again, for the third time, the same personality, with the same project – which is very light, in my opinion –, to the Americans », he deciphers.
More than ever, Donald Trump is campaigning for a base that is an arch-minority, always the same, and we do not see this kind of expansion of his electoral base. It’s a very risky bet and I think that Mr. Trump could lose by a lot, particularly with two very specific segments: that of the oldest voters and that of women who are rather well-off. These are usually two very strongly Republican bastions, but everything indicates that this year, the Trump campaign will lose feathers with these two segments of the electorate.
Soufian Alsabbagh, specialist in US domestic politics
Another thorn in the side of the Democrats: the war in Gaza, with during the Democratic primaries, the vote uncommitted« do not speak out », used to signal to the president a refusal of his policy of support for Israel after the attack of October 7. Finally, in the last days, the campaign became even more tense: Donald Trump multiplied the insults against Kamala Harris, who for her part called him a fascist.