Ahmed Shaaban (Washington, Cairo)
Yesterday, former US President and Republican Party candidate in the upcoming presidential elections, Donald Trump, delivered one of his most severe speeches attacking immigrants who cross the border illegally, while he also escalated his rhetoric against his election rival, Kamla Harris.
In the swing state of Wisconsin, Trump escalated his rhetoric, criticizing Harris.
The Republican presidential candidate was surrounded by posters of photos of immigrants in the United States illegally who were arrested on charges of murder and other violent crimes.
Trump devoted his speech entirely to talking about illegal immigrants, describing those who committed violent crimes as “murderers.” The former president held his rival Harris and President Biden responsible for allowing illegal immigrants to enter the United States.
Recent opinion polls conducted by the New York Times and Siena College showed Trump ahead of Harris in the “Sun Belt” states of Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina.
The Vice President of Al-Ahram Center for Strategic and Political Studies, Dr. Amr Hashim Rabie, believes that this poll is important in terms of the timing and environment that the three states in the American South enjoy, noting that Trump’s speech during the current and previous election campaign period was focused on protecting America from illegal immigration. Legitimacy, especially from Mexico. Rabie explained, in a statement to Al-Ittihad, that the issue of immigration made the residents of the southern states in a state of anxiety during the presidential election race, and therefore any speech that talks about the problem and resistance to it is very popular, on the basis of protecting it from the effects of immigration, especially unemployment and the low standard of living, and this What made Trump outperform Harris in the latest opinion poll.
He pointed out that Trump followed a strategy of raising voters’ fears in the “Sun Belt” states, which made him very popular and influential there, and therefore Harris will move in this context during the coming period with a more rational speech towards the problems of the three states, especially the immigration issue.
Rabie stressed that opinion polls do not determine the winner in the presidential race, but they give Harris an impetus to focus on the southern states more during the current period.
For his part, Tunisian political analyst Munther Thabet believes that the three states in the American south are conservative states, and therefore Trump has better chances of winning these states, and they can be adopted as an example upon which American society can settle at the end of the race.
In turn, Dr. Ahmed Maher Abu Jabal, a researcher in international relations and political science, said that the swing states are the ones that will decide the elections, and that all previous opinion polls did not resolve the debate about the superiority of any of the candidates, as the difference between them did not exceed more than a point.
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