US presidential election: if Trump “was elected, he would ban abortion throughout the country”, warns Harris

In the home stretch of the campaign, the two candidates are going blow for blow. Kamala Harris strongly responded Thursday to Donald Trump on the rights of women and immigrants, two crucial themes of a very tense American presidential campaign. Five days before an election with an unpredictable outcome, the opponents are engaged in a tight chase across the seven key states.

They were in two of them on Thursday, Nevada and Arizona (southwest), in particular to attract the Latin American electorate. Kamala Harris, 60, continues to want to mobilize women by promising to restore the federal right to abortion, facing Donald Trump, 78, accustomed to sexist outings and sentenced in civil court in 2023 in New York to tens of millions dollars in compensation for sexual assault.

“This man does not respect the freedom of women”

“We know that this man simply does not respect the freedom of women or the intelligence of women to make decisions about their own lives,” she tackled Thursday evening in Las Vegas. “And we know that if he were elected, he would ban abortion nationwide.”

Donald Trump, a populist tribune with increasingly authoritarian rhetoric, once again promised during a meeting in Albuquerque (New Mexico), not far from Mexico, to put an end to an “invasion” of millions of illegal immigrants and expel them. An antiphon repeated in Glendale, Arizona, where he accused immigrants of having caused a wave of crime – which no official statistics show.

Immigration, Donald Trump’s favorite theme

“Prisons around the world are being emptied to be dumped in our country,” he assured, depicting an America overwhelmed by “murderers” and “drug traffickers”. According to him, the fault lies with Kamala Harris, a leader who is “dumb as her feet” and whose “open border” policy with Mexico would have completely failed.

The billionaire continued to fuel the controversy of the week triggered on Sunday in New York by a Trumpist comedian who described the American territory of Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage”. President Biden responded by calling Donald Trump supporters “garbage”, before Kamala Harris tried to correct the situation.