Donald Trump began his hour-and-a-half-long speech in North Carolina by asking the audience: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”.
“Noooo,” the cap-adorned crowd shouted back. In the speech, the attacks against the opponent continued.
– There is a lot of pressure that Kamala Harris is the worse alternative and that it will be an extension of what we have seen with the Biden administration, says Sofia Yohannes, SVT’s foreign correspondent on the ground in the USA.
Trump talked in his speech about how, according to him, Harris has destroyed much of what he built during his presidency and that he will make things much better.
Questioning voting machines
In the speech, Trump also continues to raise doubts about the voting process and questions voting machines.
– Many people we talk to are worried that this will lead to something similar to what we saw in 2020, which ultimately led to the storming of the Capitol, says Sofia Yohannes.
Harris also attacked
In her speech in Georgia, Kamala Harris chose to focus on her financial plans – and Donald Trump.
– Kamala Harris wants to emphasize that the future is bright if she wins. If she is allowed to become president, she must unite the country, says Sofia Yohannes and continues:
– And she emphasizes that Trump, for his part, is trying to divide the country and is very us and them in his rhetoric.
Character is important
The attacks against the other candidate are constant in both Harris’s and Trump’s speeches, which, according to Sofia Yohannes, has become an increasingly clear part of American politics.
– For many Americans, character is very important. You want a person in the White House who you think is a good leader. This is what the candidates want to push by saying that the other person does not have good character or is a good leader.
– But there are also many who would rather see that you focus on politics and the American voters and not on each other, says Sofia Yohannes.
The candidates will continue to campaign until Election Day. On Saturday, Donald Trump said he would visit North Carolina, where he gave speeches during the day, every day until the election.