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Michelle Obama said on Saturday that Donald Trump will not retake the White House, as the popular former first lady made an impassioned appeal to voters in the hopelessly close US presidential election. He expressed “genuine fear.”
Trump and Kamala Harris are both looking for holdout votes in Michigan ahead of the Nov. 5 election, with Harris focusing on abortion rights and Trump returning to anti-immigrant campaign themes. Ta.
President Obama said Democratic candidate Harris would be an “extraordinary president of the United States” if elected in just 10 days.
But she also spoke of feelings of frustration and anxiety that most on Harris’ team dare not express as she has lost momentum in recent weeks as polls predict a virtual dead heat. .
“My hopes for Kamala are accompanied by genuine fear,” President Obama said, dissecting President Trump’s record and asking, “Why is this race so close?”
“His erratic behavior, apparent mental decline, and history as a convicted felon, known slumlord, and predator responsible for sexual abuse… I’m a little angry about the lack of interest.”
Mr. Obama appeared alongside Ms. Harris and hammered home the vice president’s message that abortion rights and women’s health care overall were at stake in the vote.
“Don’t put our fate in the hands of someone like Mr. Trump,” Obama said, adding that the move could effectively ban abortions across the country.
About Trump’s attackPresident Trump launched a fierce personal attack on Harris at the rally, accusing her of pushing an “open borders” immigration policy.
“She’s crazy,” he said. “This man cannot be president.”
“She will destroy our country. Everyone knows it. No one respects her. The United States is now an occupied country. Kamala destroyed it, we I’ll fix that.”
More than 38 million people have already cast early votes, with Americans deciding whether to elect the country’s first female president or its oldest commander in chief.
President Trump, 78, still refuses to accept his defeat in the vote four years ago and is expected to reject the results if he loses again, potentially plunging the country into chaos.
Trump achieved a shocking victory in 2016 by overwhelmingly winning three blue wall states (Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania), but four years later, Joe Biden won back these states. It became.
He hopes to win back one or more of the trio and return to power with a victory in the so-called Sun Belt battleground states.
After the Michigan event, Trump headed straight to Pennsylvania for another rally Saturday night.
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Harris also highlighted abortion rights, a Republican weakness, by visiting local clinics and meeting with doctors, staff and medical students.
“Because of President Trump and what he did on the Supreme Court,” he told reporters, referring to Trump-elected judges who tipped the court to repeal the nation’s abortion rights in 2022. “We are facing a health care crisis in the United States.”
The penultimate weekend before the vote begins Friday night, with Harris appearing alongside superstar Beyoncé and Trump giving a three-hour interview to Joe Rogan, America’s most popular podcaster. I complied.
On Sunday, Harris, 60, will campaign in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the largest city in the battleground state that is likely to decide the winner of the election.
She plans to criss-cross the city, especially historically black and Latino neighborhoods, convincing irresponsible residents to vote.
President Trump plans to rally his supporters Sunday night at Madison Square Garden, the famous arena in the heart of Democratic-heavy New York.
The brash billionaire and former reality TV star seems intent on proving he can organize a grand spectacle and fill arenas in liberal bastions.
But critics, including Trump’s 2016 rival Hillary Clinton, have pointed out that Madison Square Garden was also the site of a pro-Nazi rally organized by groups supporting Adolf Hitler in 1939. are.
Part of Ms. Harris’ campaign strategy is to draw moderate Republicans away from Mr. Trump, who often casts some Americans as his “enemy.”
Harris told her supporters that as a prosecutor, she has fought “predators, fraudsters, repeat offenders, all kinds of perpetrators. I have faced them and I have won.”
“In 10 days, it will be Donald Trump’s turn.”
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