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October 29, 2024
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Follow the latest news from the campaign for the American presidential election, which will take place on November 5, 2024.
USA Elections 2024: Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, what do the polls predict?
After a summer full of twists and turns, the campaign for the American presidential election has continued since the start of the school year, with Kamala Harris and Donald Trump leading a relentless fight for the keys to the White House. They still have until November 5 to convince the (major) American voters.
► So, Kamala Harris or Donald Trump: what do the polls predict?
→ The non-bias of the Washington Post in the presidential election is a “decision in principle”, according to Jeff Bezos
The founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos denied Monday that his personal interests were behind the lack of support for a candidate in the American presidential election by the Washington Post, a newspaper of which he has been the owner since 2013, thus defending a “decision in principle”.
The decision “was made entirely internally,” writes Jeff Bezos in a column published by “WaPo”saying he “does not push” for his personal interests when it comes to the newspaper’s decisions.
“You can see my wealth and my business interests as a bulwark against bullying, or you can see them as a web of conflicts of interest,” says the billionaire.
→ Philadelphia prosecutors call for a halt to Musk’s election lottery
The prosecutor of Philadelphia, the main city of Pennsylvania, one of the states where the American presidential election is expected to be played, has announced that he will seek legal action stopping the million dollar lottery of Elon Musk rewarding a voter in a key state daily.
Elon Musk, patron de SpaceX, Tesla et X (ex-Twitter), who supports Republican candidate Donald Trump facing Democratic Vice-President Kamala Harris, inaugurated this lottery on October 19 by handing over a first check for one million dollars to a voter in Pennsylvania (north-east).
The prosecutor, Larry Krasner, recalls that it is his responsibility to “protect the population public nuisances and unfair commercial practices, including illegal lotteries”. It also has the responsibility to “protect the population from interference with integrity elections,” he adds.
→ Joe Biden has (already) voted
US President Joe Biden voted in advance in the presidential election which will designate his successor at the White House.
The Democratic leader cast the ballot on which he initially dreamed of seeing his name in a polling station in New Castle, a town in the state of Delaware near Wilmington where he has his private residence. The octogenarian has no not immediately confirmed that he had voted for Kamala Harris, although there is no doubt about it.
→ The Washington Post loses more than 200,000 subscribers after giving up support for Kamala Harris
More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions to the Washington Post by midday Monday, following the newspaper’s decision to drop its support for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, National Public Radio reported.
→ Kamala Harris in Michigan and Donald Trump in Georgia on D-8 of the presidential election
The two candidates for the American presidential election, Democrat Kamala Harris and her Republican rival Donald Trump, will continue their electoral marathoneight days before an election which promises to be extremely close.
Kamala Harris to visit Michiganwhere she must face the anger of part of the large American-Arab community against the United States’ support for Israel in its wars in Gaza and Lebanon.
For his part, Donald Trump will be in Georgiawhere he is scheduled to address a gathering of pastors and religious leaders before holding a meeting in Atlanta.
More than 41 million Americans have already voted early. President Joe Biden himself will vote on Monday, according to the White House.
→ Immigration, inflation and abortion: the data reality behind the slogans of the American campaign
The American campaign enters this week into its final straight line. We attempted to objectify the three themes that are currently polarizing debates in the United States through the prism of data. A snapshot of what the USA is like in 2024.
→ Trump fills Madison Square Garden, but his meeting is controversial
Donald Trump filled the legendary red caps on Sunday Madison Square Garden de New Yorkwhere he presented himself as the savior of the United States “destroyed” by Kamala Harris, during a meeting marked by insults against Puerto Ricans which caused a lot of reaction.
A rare occurrence in the campaign, he was introduced by his wife and former first lady of the United States Melania Trumpso far discreet.
Among the room drivers, between Elon Musk, Robert Francis Kennedy Jr, the wrestler Hulk Hogan, or the former ultraconservative Fox News host Tucker Carlson, a comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe, distinguished himself by comparing Puerto Rico, many of whose natives reside in New York, to “a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean”.
The sequence was quickly denounced on social networks, notably by the candidate’s campaign team, which went to a Puerto Rican restaurant in Philadelphia on Sunday. And several Puerto Rican starslike the prince of reggaeton Bad Bunny, or even Ricky Martin, showed their support for Kamala Harris by relaying videos of the Democrat in stories on Instagram.
→ In Houston, Beyoncé as a strong ally for Kamala Harris
“I’m not here as a celebrity. I’m not here as a politician. I’m here as a mother,” she said. Beyoncé on stage at a Kamala Harris rally in Houston, Texasbefore introducing the Democratic candidate for the American presidential election.
“(I am) a mother worried about the fate of the world in which my children and all our children live“, continued the 43-year-old singer. “It’s time for America to sing a new song. (…) We need you,” she added.
The global star, who gave the campaign its official anthem with his chanson “Freedom” (“Freedom”), gave a short speech to denounce attacks on women’s rights and in particular their right to abortion in around twenty American states, including her native Texas.
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