Barack and Michelle Obama They closed ranks with Kamala Harris in his race for the November elections in USA against Republican Donald Trump, who is reluctant to engage in a debate with her until she is nominated by the Democratic Party.
“This week, Michelle and I called our friend Kamala Harris. We told her that we think she will be a fantastic president of the United States. USA, and that has our full support,” said former President Barack Obama in a message on social network X after remaining silent for several days.
On Friday morning, support also came from the Paris Olympics, with American track legend Allyson Felix claiming that a Harris win in November “it would be monumental”.
The vice president, 59, is guaranteed the nomination between now and the Democratic Party convention, scheduled to begin on August 19 in Chicago.
Since President Joe Biden, 81, withdrew from the re-election race, he said, because of the “defense of democracy” and to make way for “young voices”, Harris has become the Democrats’ great hope.
A cause for concern for Donald Trump, 78, who has been forced to recalibrate his campaign, which has focused heavily on Biden’s age.
The campaign team of the former California senator and former prosecutor now describes her rival as a “78-year-old criminal”who was convicted in May in a criminal case and has other pending legal cases.
Biden’s downfall was precipitated by his disastrous performance in a June debate with Trump, who is now casting doubt on whether he will participate in one scheduled for Sept. 10.
He was scheduled to be against Biden on ABC.
“He is afraid”
He was expected to stand with Harris, but Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said it was “inappropriate” scheduling it when the vice president is not yet formally the Democratic candidate.
Pete Buttigieg, the US transportation secretary and a key supporter of Harris’s campaign, mocked Trump for being “unable to adapt.”
“It shows that he is afraid. It shows that he knows that if the two of them are together on stage, it is not going to end well for him.”Buttigieg said on MSNBC.
A week ago, Trump was crowned at the Republican convention after being wounded in an assassination attempt. He exuded confidence and triumphalism.
But in the latest polls she is tied with Kamala Harris, who is used to breaking the glass ceiling. Black and of South Asian descent, she is the first female vice president of the United States.
She accuses him of wanting to snatch the “freedoms” hard-won rights, such as the right to abortion, and he calls it “radical leftist lunatic” and claims, without reason, that he is in favor of the “execution” of newborn babies.
On Friday, Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Florida residence. “If we win, it will be very simple. Everything will be resolved and very quickly.“the former Republican president said.
“We are now closer to a third world war than at any time since World War II (…) because incompetent people are running our country.”“, he claimed.
The day before, Netanyahu met at the White House with Biden, but also with Kamala Harris, who warned him that she will not remain silent. “in the face of suffering” in Gaza, where Israel is waging war against Hamas after fighters from the Palestinian Islamist group attacked its territory on October 7.
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Source: Gestion
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