The United States has entered the last week of the campaign with the Republican candidate for the White House, former president (2017-2021) Donald Trump, betting on an increasingly aggressive speech, while the vice president and Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris, will seek to recover brio with an act at the heart of American democracy.
On Sunday, Trump gave a speech at Madison Square Garden in New York at an event attended by some 20,000 people and in which several speakers participated, who launched racist and misogynistic proclamations that have raised blisters even in the party itself.
In the most famous of all, the words of presenter and comedian Tony Hinchcliffe about the island of Puerto Rico still resonate: “There is literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now, I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” he said.
The words unleashed a wave of rejection reactions, including from several artists such as Jennifer López or Ricky Martin, while the campaign has tried in recent hours to distance itself from this message.
“This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign,” Danielle Alvarez, a senior adviser to the campaign, told ABC News.
The inhabitants of Puerto Rico, a commonwealth state of the United States, cannot vote for president, but the millions of Puerto Ricans who reside in the United States can do so.
decisive votes
In these elections, the Latino vote will be more decisive than ever, since it is estimated that 36.2 million people are eligible to vote this year, compared to 32.3 million in 2020. This represents 50% of the total voter growth enabled during this period, according to data from the Pew center.
At the Sunday event, Trump redoubled his promise to carry out a massive campaign to deport migrants in a speech that has been described by media outlets such as CNN as “the most radical closing argument in modern presidential history.”
“Trump in the Garden: a closing carnival of complaints, misogyny and racism,” headlined the New York Times this Monday in an article that recalls some of the messages launched by the speakers.
One of those was businessman Grant Cardone, who went so far as to suggest that Kamala Harris is a prostitute: “Her controlling pimps will destroy our country,” he said. Meanwhile, David Rem, a childhood friend of Trump, called Harris “the devil” and “the Antichrist.”
All this, while the Democratic candidate for vice president, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, recalled that a famous pro-Nazi meeting in 1939 was held in Madison Square Garden and made a comparison between the two events.
Harris version
According to the Harris campaign, the New York event, which Trump sold as his symbolic campaign closing event and closing arguments, “went completely out of control” and became “an offensive, dark and dangerous spectacle.”
To try to regain momentum and take advantage in the close polls, Kamala Harris will celebrate on Tuesday, exactly one week before going to the polls, an event in the heart of the American capital, on the Ellipse of the National Mall.
The setting chosen by the vice president has great symbolism because it is the space where the White House, the Capitol, the Abraham Lincoln Monument and the obelisk dedicated to George Washington are located.
The vice president will mention the 2021 assault on the Capitol, in which a mob of Trump supporters tried to stop the ratification of the president’s electoral victory, Joe Biden, an event for which the Republican was charged in court.
Precisely, Harris will speak from the Ellipse, south of the White House, the same location where Trump gave a speech to his supporters minutes before they attacked the Congress building and which, according to the prosecution’s accusation, served to instigate the assault.
Washington / EFE
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