2024-09-26 05:57:00
It was the Democratic presidential candidate’s first solo television interview. On Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris defended her plans for the world’s largest economy.
The Democrat particularly attacked the record of her billionaire rival in the White House. She accused him of having caused America to lose 200,000 industrial jobs and assured that China had ” constantly played ” from its adversary on the technological and commercial level.
« For Donald Trump, the economy must serve the owners of the great skyscrapers. Not those who build them, nor those who install the electricity, nor those who wash the floors. “, criticized Kamala Harris, presenting herself instead as a child of the middle class.
The woman who took over the White House race from Joe Biden then accused her rival on MSNBC of not being ” not serious ” with his plan for high taxes on imported goods in the event of victory.
Cost of living too high
The 59-year-old candidate, however, acknowledged that the cost of living remained ” too high » for households, by repeating his few concrete promises: a tax credit for young families and for small business creators, assistance with purchasing housing, control of the often exorbitant price of medicines… All of this must be financed by heavier taxation on large companies and large fortunes.
The interview also took place in Pittsburgh, the historic capital of steel, in Pennsylvania. Among the seven famous swing states (Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada and Pennsylvania), these states where the vote between Republican and Democrat is often undecided from one presidential election to the next, Pennsylvania is the big prize. Indeed, it will offer 19 electors to the winner on November 5. As a reminder, the first to reach 270 electors will win the presidential election, which is an indirect vote.
Immigration
The Democratic candidate, who plans to travel to Arizona on Friday, a city bordering Mexico, also promised during the same interview to revive a bill from the current Democratic president if she wins. This bill, torpedoed by Republicans, planned to increase border police resources and restrict access to the right to asylum.
While the Republican seems to be losing his edge over Kamala Harris on the economy, at least according to polls conducted among voters, he is considered much more convincing on immigration, again according to opinion polls. The former president, who did not hesitate to spread racist false information about immigrants from Haiti, accuses his rival of having transformed the southern border into a sieve, and promises mass expulsions in the event of victory.
No new debate
However, American voters will have to make do with this solo interview by Kamala Harris, in the absence of a new debate between the two candidates. The Republican has in fact refused to repeat the exercise before the election date, despite the candidate’s proposal to organize one on October 23 on CNN. “I hope Donald Trump will join me,” she had launched on X. The latter had however responded that“it’s too late” for a new debate, arguing that “the vote has already started”in reference to the start of early voting in some states across the country (Virginia, Minnesota and South Dakota).
In the meantime, Donald Trump will also soon be visiting Pennsylvania as part of his campaign, more precisely Butler, the same place where he was the target of an assassination attempt in mid-July.
On Wednesday, the Republican, campaigning in another highly coveted state, North Carolina, attacked Iran, saying that it would be necessary to threaten to ” destroy “ the country if Tehran were to attack a candidate in the American election. Indeed, the former president, targeted by two assassination attempts, on July 13 and September 15, assured Tuesday that his life was directly threatened by Iran, in a context of redoubled hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shiite movement allied with Tehran. His campaign team indicated that it had been informed by American intelligence of threats ” concrete » assassination attempt against the Republican candidate, emanating from Iran.
Donald Trump also sharply criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is due to meet Kamala Harris on Thursday. Every time he came to our country he left with 60 billion dollars, I think he is the best salesman on the planet “, the former president joked.
US Congress avoids shutdown before election
The American elected representatives of the Congress adopted on Wednesday a text which allows to finance the government budget until December, and to avoid a ” shutdown »this paralysis of federal services, almost a month before the American election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
Both the House of Representatives and the Senate approved the deal Wednesday afternoon, which keeps the government operating at current spending levels through Dec. 20.
They had until Sept. 30 to agree on budgets for fiscal year 2025, which begins Oct. 1. Beyond that, federal agencies would have been left unfunded just five weeks before the tight Nov. 5 election.
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