Trump’s deputy causes excitement in the election campaign finale

A few days before US presidential election go Kamala Harris and Donald Trump to get votes in the contested states Nevada and Arizona. Both performed in front of their cheering supporters. The Democratic vice president and the Republican are in a neck-and-neck race – and Nevada and Arizona could provide the decisive electoral votes. Harris sought a clear contrast to Trump. The ex-president wants to divide Americans, she said.

But she relies on unity, says Harris: “We have so much more in common.” For an attack, she used Trump’s recent statement that he would protect women, regardless of “whether women like it or not.” Trump is someone who simply doesn’t respect women’s freedom, Harris said.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and “Women’s Health”

Trump, for his part, promised that he would “bring back the American dream”, spoke again of an “invasion” of America by migrants and said that no one had been as bad in the vice office as Harris. At the same time, he announced that he would also entrust vaccination opponent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with “women’s health.”

To win the election, you need 270 votes from voters from each US state. Arizona has eleven electoral votes and Nevada has six. They are among the seven “swing states” in which both candidates have a chance of winning and which will decide the race for the White House. The election is on November 5th.

In the home stretch of the race for the White House, other celebrities lined up behind Harris. On Thursday (local time), basketball star LeBron James and several “Avengers” actors spoke out in favor of today’s vice president. When he thinks about his children and his family, the choice is clear: “Vote for Kamala Harris!!!,” wrote James of the “Los Angeles Lakers” on the online platform X.

Several actors from the “Avengers” comic film adaptations gathered in a video link. These included Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Mark Ruffalo (Hulk), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow) and Chris Evans (Captain America). “Every vote counts,” emphasized Ruffalo at X and called on people to vote for Democrat Harris and her running mate Tim Walz.

Trump wants ten billion dollars

Trump, meanwhile, demanded ten billion dollars (9.19 billion euros) in damages from the US broadcaster CBS News in a lawsuit. He accused the media company of manipulating an interview with Harris to benefit the Democrat. The calculation behind the choice of a court in Texas could be that the case will be assigned to a conservative judge.

The dispute was sparked at the beginning of October by an interview with Harris on the political show “60 Minutes,” in which she was asked about Israel. CBS aired two different excerpts of her response on two consecutive days. This segmentation led to accusations from Trump’s supporters that CBS intentionally portrayed Harris in a more favorable light. The broadcaster rejected the allegations.

A video circulated on Platform X, owned by Trump supporter Elon Musk, in which an alleged migrant from Haiti claimed that he had voted several times in the US state of Georgia. Brad Raffensperger, who is responsible for elections in the “swing state”, emphasized that this was not true and that the video was an example of targeted misinformation – “probably” from abroad. Raffensperger asked X and Musk to remove the clip. X was formerly known as Twitter. After purchasing the platform, Musk significantly relaxed the crackdown on misinformation.

JD Vance: Women “celebrate” abortions

Trump’s running mate JD Vance also caused controversy with comments in an interview with popular podcaster Joe Rogan. Among other things, he claimed that young people were changing their gender because it was easier for transgender people to get into elite American universities. On the other hand, he wouldn’t be surprised if he and Trump won more “normal gay votes.” He also criticized the fact that some women “celebrated” abortions.

Shortly after his nomination in the summer, Vance came under fire for previous misogynistic statements about childless women. In a 2021 interview, the father of three described leading Democratic politicians as “childless cat women”. Vance later complained that he had been misunderstood.