One month before the American presidential election, Joe Biden expressed concern, Friday October 4, about the risk that the vote would not be “peaceful”, due to the behavior of Republican candidate Donald Trump. “The things he said last time when he didn’t like the result of the election were very dangerous,” warned the American president. “I am worried about what they are going to do” during the vote, he said during an impromptu exchange with journalists.
As the November 5 election approaches, pitting Democratic Vice-President Kamala Harris against Donald Trump, illustrations of an American society on edge are omnipresent. The electoral centers of the most contested counties, targets of high tensions four years ago, have turned into fortresses, protected by wrought iron fences and metal detectors. The certification of the results of the presidential election at the Capitol, the scene on January 6, 2021 of an attack by unleashed Trumpists, will this time be supervised by the highest level of security possible for an official event.
“Cheating like hell”
The fear is that once again the vote will be so close that it will take not hours, but days to declare a winner. Donald Trump, who never acknowledged his defeat in 2020, has already laid the first foundations for a new challenge, accusing the Democrats on Friday of “cheating like hell” during a public meeting with voters. The Republican candidate also attributed the second assassination attempt of which he was the victim to the “rhetoric” of his opponents, while the Democrats accuse him, on the contrary, of being the instigator of a political climate that is sometimes unbreathable.
The septuagenarian Republican must also return this Saturday to the scene of the first assassination attempt, where he narrowly escaped being shot by a shooter in July, in the town of Butler in Pennsylvania, for a new campaign meeting . He will be accompanied by a distinguished guest: Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, owner of X, Tesla, and even SpaceX.
Before that, Donald Trump was in Georgia on Friday, a state hard hit by Hurricane Helen, which left more than 200 dead in the United States. During this trip, he criticized the White House for having “terribly” managed this crisis. And accused, without evidence, the Biden administration of having diverted funds from the federal natural disaster response agency to redistribute them to migrants.
Obama supports Harris
Kamala Harris was in Michigan, a key state in the Great Lakes region and symbol of industrial decline in the United States from the 1980s. The Democratic candidate began her trip to the large city of Detroit, the birthplace of the American automobile industry, where she wants to strengthen her image as a pro-union candidate. The working-class electorate was traditionally favorable to the Democrats, but Donald Trump has managed since his entry onto the political scene to attract the favor of many of its members.
To try to slow down this exodus, Kamala Harris will be able to benefit from strong support in the coming weeks in the person of Barack Obama. Still very popular, the first black president in the history of the United States will go on the ground in several key states until the vote on November 5, announced the campaign team of the Democratic vice-president.