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United StatesTrump doubles down on eve of midterm elections
Ohio, Iowa, Florida, Pennsylvania: Donald Trump announced four meetings on Wednesday to support Republican midterm candidates in the final hours of the campaign.
The former president, surrounded by investigations, threw himself headlong into the campaign for this election during which the Americans renew all of the 435 seats in the American House of Representatives and a third of the Senate.
Organized two years following the next presidential election, these elections, scheduled for November 8, are de facto converted into a referendum on the occupant of the White House, Joe Biden. But this election also acts as a life-size test for the political future of the Republican billionaire, who openly flirts with a candidacy in 2024.
Concretely, the battle for control of Congress is being played out in a handful of key states – the same ones that were already at stake in the 2020 presidential election, and which Donald Trump will visit in late October and early November.
Just hours before the opening of the polls, the ex-businessman will be in the hotly contested state of Ohio, where his foal JD Vance, is opposed to the elected Democrat Tim Ryan.
Democratic President Joe Biden alternates between meetings with the working class and meetings with wealthy sympathizers to fill the coffers of his party, which hopes at least to maintain its control over the Senate.
Un Republican candidate once more accused of paying a woman for an abortion
Herschel Walker, the anti-abortion Republican candidate vying for a Senate seat in Georgia, one of the nation’s most scrutinized elections, was once more accused on Wednesday of paying a woman to interrupt her pregnancy.
The former American football star is locked in a close race that might determine whether or not the Republican Party takes control of the upper house of Congress in the midterm elections next month. But his campaign has been marred by several controversies: he is accused of domestic violence, of having had children outside his marriage and of having paid to terminate the pregnancy of a former girlfriend.
Another woman on Wednesday said the former Dallas Cowboys player pressured her to have an abortion when they were having an extramarital affair several years ago.
“Herschel Walker is a hypocrite and he is not fit to be a United States senator,” the woman, whose identity has not been revealed, said during a press conference organized on Zoom. “We do not need people in the Senate who profess one thing and do another,” she added, adding that “Herschel Walker spoke out ‘ once morest women who have abortions.’ “But he pressured me to have” an abortion, she assured.
(AFP)