
While Democratic candidate Kamala Harris held a rally on Sunday, September 29, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Donald Trump went to Pennsylvania. These are two key states in this presidential campaign. And as during his trip the day before to Wisconsin, the former American president violently attacked his Democratic opponent.
socialist public health with high taxes and deadly wait times. You’ll wait six or seven months sometimes. And she supports free sex change for detained illegal aliens, on the backs of the taxpayer. That’s why in five weeks, we’re going to tell her: Kamala, you did a terrible job as vice president, you’re the worst border patrol officer in the history of the world, not just in our country. We need to change. Kamala, you’re horrible. Kamala, you’re fired!”
The public in Pennsylvania is thrilled. And Donald Trump is asking his supporters, and this is new from four years ago, to vote by mail and early in the presidential election.
Political debate workshops organized between Democratic and Republican supporters
Democrats and Republicans are seeking to convince undecided voters, independents, in a very tight race until the November 5 election. These independent voters are nevertheless increasingly rare, in a very divided political context. Faced with this, some Americans want to put aside their political differences or at least learn to live with them, explains our correspondent in Atlanta, Edward Maille.
In Georgia, one of the key states in the election, the Braver Angels association, for example, organizes political discussion workshops between Democrats and Republicans called "tools for better disagreeing", that is to say to learn to overcome their differences.
In Atlanta, during one of these workshops, about twenty people present must react to different political points of view. This is the case of Al Johnson, a Democrat who is participating in this workshop for the first time: "After the election, there will be half the population that will be very disappointed and the other half very happy, but we have to make sure we can talk to everyone."
Above all, we should not start by giving our opinion, but make sure we have understood the other person's. A valuable piece of advice for Lisa, who is also participating in the workshop: "When someone says something that I totally disagree with and my response is very emotional, I try to pause and be aware of it. And then I ask questions to find out why the person said that."
Barbara Brown leads this workshop and says that her family almost broke off all contact because of politics. In 2016, she voted for Donald Trump while living with her sister, who is a Democrat. "She lived downstairs and I lived upstairs. She didn’t come up and talk to me for three weeks after the election. There was a lot of tension at Thanksgiving that year, and she cried a lot. And some of my kids couldn’t even talk to each other.”
In the past few years, as political tensions have grown, Barbara Brown has seen an increase in enrollment in these workshops.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris commit to combating gun violence
It is one of the recurring themes of the American presidential campaign, gun control. Lacking a majority, the Democrats must be content with symbolic measures, such as the executive order that Joe Biden is signing. “What I am about to sign is called ‘Combating Emerging Gun Threats and Improving School Shooter Training’. I never thought I would sign something like this, but that’s how it is,” laments the American president.
Gun violence, leading cause of death among children
In the United States, one in five families has a loved one affected by gun violence. Especially children, reminds Kamala Harris. “Gun violence is now the leading cause of death among children in America. Not car accidents, not cancer… Gun violence. We agree that it doesn’t have to be this way,” she says.
The Democratic candidate proposes the return of the ban on assault rifles, laws to check the background of buyers or to impose secure storage. But Republicans and the Trump-Vance ticket oppose it, reminds Joe Biden. “Last year, after yet another school shooting, my predecessor said that we had to get over it. Senator Vance of Ohio said that these are the things of life. But who do they think they are?” the president exasperates.
No doubt for the defenders of a right to which many Americans are attached. In the United States, it is estimated that there are 500 million weapons in circulation, for 330 million inhabitants.