The race for the White House intensified this Friday in Michiganwhere Kamala Harris and donald trumppractically tied In the polls just 18 days before the elections, they launched a frantic search for the working class vote in one of the key states that will define the future of the country.
The vice president started the day in the city of Grand Rapidsin Kent County, a traditionally conservative area in western Michigan where Trump won in 2016 but where the American president, Joe Biden, managed to win in 2020.
Harris pledged to revitalize Michigan’s important automobile industry and urged citizens not to believe Trump’s “empty promises.”
Kamala Harris: “We will work with unions to create good-paying jobs. This includes jobs that do not require a college degree”
“Together, we will renovate existing factories, hire local labor, and work with unions to create good-paying jobs. This includes jobs that don’t require a college degree,” the Democratic candidate said.
Age, a problem for Trump
Until three months ago all eyes were on Biden’s age, but with his withdrawal, the 78 years of Trump are beginning to weigh on the candidacy.
Harris echoed reports that the hustle and bustle of the campaign is taking its toll on trumpexhausted with all his commitments.
“His own campaign team has recently said that (cancelling engagements) is due to exhaustion. Well, if you’re exhausted on the campaign, that raises serious questions about whether you’re fit for the toughest job in the world,” the vice president said.
After Grand Rapids, Harris headed to lansingwhere he gave a speech at a branch of the powerful union United Auto Workers and ended the day with another rally in the county of Oaklandon the outskirts of Detroit, where he continued to appeal to the working class.
“Donald Trump is making the same empty promises he made in the past, hoping they will forget how he let them down last time,” he said.
Trump, in fact, was also in Oakland County this Friday at a round table with neighbors and a subsequent night rally in Detroit.
The foundations of the blue wall
Michigan, along with Pennsylvania and Wisconsinmake up the so-called blue wallso called because it had been dominated for decades by Democrats, but which Trump managed to conquer in 2016, breaking the vote of part of the working class.
In this traditionally blue-collar territory, Harris faces two challenges: the lukewarm support of the unions, which have shown less enthusiasm for her than for other candidates in the past, and the distancing of the Arab community, critical of the White House’s support for Israel in the war in Loop.
In fact, Harris took advantage of the rally outside Detroit to insist that the death of the Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar“can and should be a turning point” to “end” Israel’s war in Gaza.
Trump’s rally in Detroit marked his return to the city after his controversial statements last week, when he warned that “the whole country will end up like Detroit” if Harris reaches the White House, alluding to the serious crisis that the city for years, with a significant loss of population and the closure of factories.
Polls show a technical tie between the two candidates in Michigan, although Trump has closed the gap in recent weeks. According to the average of surveys of FiveThirtyEight, Harris has a 47.5% support in front of 47.2% Republican.
The battle for Michigan, with 8.4 million voters, promises to be close: Trump won in 2016 by just 11,000 voteswhile Biden won in 2020 with 155,000 supports.
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