Washington, Oct 15 (EFE).- The candidates for the White House, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris, visited several key states on Tuesday, three weeks out from the election, with their campaigns getting increasingly personal.
President Joe Biden, who has not been very active in his vice president’s campaign, spoke at the Sheet Metal Workers Local 19 Training Center in swing state Philadelphia, which will be key to the Nov. 5 poll.
“I think he’s running to stay out of jail,” said Biden during the rally in his home state.
“I want to see that sentence,” he said of Trump’s hush money trial sentencing on Nov. 26, delayed until after the election.
“Trump says we’re losers, but the only loser I know is Donald Trump,” he added.
Harris was in Michigan, another of the states that will decide the winner of the elections. The Democratic candidate gave an interview to the popular African-American radio host Charlamagne tha God in Detroit.
The campaign’s goal was to reach African-American men, a group that has always voted overwhelmingly Democrat but in which Trump is gaining ground, according to polls.
She told him she will work to decriminalize the recreational use of marijuana.
“I know exactly how those laws have been used to disproportionately impact certain populations, and specifically Black men,” Harris said.
Trump is the candidate who has accumulated the most events in this final stretch of the campaign.
He started the day in Chicago as he invests his time in Democratic areas, which he has not done in past campaigns.
The New York magnate participated in a Bloomberg event at the Economic Club of Chicago among businessmen, in which he claimed that the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol was a day of “love and peace” in Washington and that “there was a “peaceful transfer of power.”
Trump would not reveal whether he has spoken with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin since leaving the White House, but said it would be a “smart” thing to do: “If I’m friendly with people, if I have a relationship with people, that’s a good thing, not a bad thing, in terms of a country.”
In the evening, the former president was in the state of Georgia, another of those considered a key state, where early voting began Tuesday. Trump participated in an event with Fox News voters and then held a rally in Atlanta.
In addition to insisting on his attacks on Harris, once again questioning her intelligence, Trump doubled down on his new rhetoric on the “enemy within,” which includes Democratic leaders.
But he was especially forceful on immigration, an issue that he was against in the 2016 elections and has been raising repeatedly for months.
And like his Democratic rival, he also addressed African-American men: “Any African American or Hispanic – and you know how well I’m doing there – that votes for Kamala, you gotta have your head examined. Because they are really screwing you. They are really screwing you.”
For Wednesday, both candidates have scheduled important television commitments for the final stretch of vote-rallying.
Harris will give her first interview with Fox News, the conservative media outlet most aligned with Trump.
The Republican will be on Univision, in a platform with undecided Latino voters in Miami. EFE
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