Trump incites against migrants, Harris warns against Trump

In the final phase of the election campaign Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in the US state Wisconsin canvassed for votes at the same time – only about eight kilometers apart as the crow flies.

While US rapper Cardi B welcomed the Democrat to the stage in a suburb of Milwaukee and explained that Harris had motivated her to vote, the Republican began his speech in the city center. Wisconsin is one of the hotly contested swing states.

In 2016, Trump won here against Hillary Clinton with a lead of 0.7 percentage points. 2020 won Joe Biden against Trump with a lead of 0.6 percentage points. This year there will probably be a head-to-head race again.

Trump calls his own team “stupid”

Trump didn’t spare any insults in his speech: When technical problems arose with the microphone, he called them his own team backstage as “stupid”; As he has often done before, he called Harris a “person with a very low IQ.”

At the same time, Harris warned of another Trump presidency: “This is not someone who is thinking about how they can make your life better,” she said. “This is someone who is increasingly unstable, driven by desire for revenge and resentment. And this man is bent on unbridled power.” She promised a politics of unity that was focused on the people: “I come on day one with my to-do list – not with a list of enemies.” She was one of her priorities affordable healthcare and the right of the Women on self-determination.

Fake video

But that didn’t stop Trump from appearing in… Michigan to refill. He claimed that Cheney would not have the courage to face the enemy in a real combat situation. Instead, she is sitting in Washington and wants to wage wars with other countries. He described Harris as the “candidate of endless wars,” while he himself was a “candidate of peace.”

Cheney, daughter of the former vice president Dick Cheney and supporter of Harris, has often been criticized for her interventionist foreign policy position. However, observers emphasize that Trump himself ordered military action several times during his term in office.

Meanwhile, concerns remain about possible Russian influence in the election campaign. A video circulated on Platform X this week showing an alleged migrant Haiti shows that several times in the US State of Georgia should have chosen. US security authorities said the video was fake and part of a Russian campaign aimed at sowing doubts about the integrity of US elections.

Since the tech billionaire took over Elon Musk X – formerly Twitter – takes less strict action against misinformation. Musk, who appears as a prominent Trump supporter, also supports him financially. The video, which has since been deleted, served Trump’s narrative of alleged voter fraud by migrants – a topic he regularly addresses.

Seven “Swing States”

The US Supreme Court also addressed an election integrity issue shortly before the weekend and temporarily stopped an attempt by Republicans to throw certain ballots in Pennsylvania to be excluded from the count – the US state could be the most populous of the seven “Swing States” be decisive for the outcome of the election.

The decision means that voters whose postal voting documents were rejected due to formal deficiencies can still vote in person using a provisional ballot paper. This could have saved thousands of votes, which tend to be attributed to Democratic voters, from being invalidated. With one caveat: The Supreme Court rejected the Republicans’ corresponding request – but could deal with the matter again later.