“American children are at the mercy of barbaric criminals,” the Republican presidential candidate said during a news conference at his golf resort in suburban Los Angeles.
The former president, who has been ramping up his partly false diatribes against migrants all week, once again mentioned the false and racist claim that Haitian migrants are stealing dogs and cats to eat in the city of Springfield.
“We're going to have mass deportations” in this small Ohio town, the Republican billionaire vowed, pretending to ignore that many of these migrants have residency.
“Third World”
During his press conference, the Republican candidate accused, without evidence, his rival from the November elections of illegally flying in “some of the worst assassins and terrorists”. “Kamala will turn America into a third world refugee camp. This is already kind of like that,” he insisted during another highly disjointed speech.
The Republican nominee has placed immigration, a top concern of voters according to polls, at the center of his new bid for the White House. Just as he did in 2016, campaigning on his proposed wall on the border with Mexico. If victorious on November 5, he promises to fight illegal immigration with mass deportations.
The stormy septuagenarian is due to participate in a meeting in the evening in Nevada, a western state, where the issue of immigration should, once again, be discussed at length. A far-right activist recently seen in her campaign entourage, Laura Loomer, in turn lashed out at Kamala Harris, whose mother is Indian, recently writing on X that if the Democrat wins, the White House “would smell to curry. »
Kamala Harris will be in the swing state on Friday, the pivot state, perhaps the most crucial in the presidential election: Pennsylvania, with its 19 electors.
Conspiracy theory
The vice president has not yet responded to these comments by her rival. When Donald Trump brought up the pet conspiracy theory during their televised debate on Tuesday, she reacted with a vehement shake of her head and a half-amused, half-outraged look.
This daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, the first female vice president of the United States, has not stopped attacking her identity since the beginning of the campaign, carried out in a very methodical manner and with a decidedly centrist positioning.
On Thursday, the 59-year-old Democrat delivered his already well-rehearsed speech in North Carolina, another pivotal state in America's historic South, on the Atlantic coast. “It's time to turn the page” on Trump, she insisted, promising to defend the middle class and abortion rights.
Once again, Kamala Harris, who stormed into the race after President Joe Biden withdrew less than two months ago, insisted the election will be “very close” and that she is “not the favorite.” The candidate, who by all accounts dominated her opponent in Tuesday's debate, will not be able to count on another matchup of this type to give her momentum: Donald Trump actually opposed a Thursday rematch.
In an America that today seems irreparably divided politically, the two candidates are neck and neck in the polls.