Trump insists on his closing dash in Pennsylvania (and courting the Latino voter) | USA Elections | EUROtoday

If right this moment is Monday, this have to be Pennsylvania. Or North Carolina. Or Michigan. For the final day of his extravagant marketing campaign, the Republican candidate deliberate a visit to 4 cities unfold throughout three states, all of them decisive on this Tuesday’s presidential elections. In complete, he deliberate to cowl about 1,800 kilometers aboard his aircraft, Trump Force One.

It started within the morning, 50 minutes late than the scheduled time, in Raleigh, a college metropolis in North Carolina, a State to which it has devoted an uncommon quantity of power in latest days, as if it wished to guarantee it. The plan was to finish, maybe at daybreak, with an occasion in Grand Rapids (Michigan), the place the place he made his debut on stage along with his vice presidential candidate, JD Vance, two days earlier than the top of the National Convention. Republican from Milwaukee and only a week after struggling the primary of the 2 assassination makes an attempt she has survived throughout this marketing campaign. The central a part of Monday was spent in Pennsylvania, with appearances in Reading and Pittsburgh, the second metropolis within the State.

It made sense: it’s the one which contributes essentially the most electoral votes (19) among the many seven hinges and the most recent polls present an virtually excellent tie right here between Trump and his opponent, Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. In the case of Reading, their curiosity in courting the Latino vote was added, one of many huge points (and unknowns) of those elections.

He began virtually an hour and a half late, and supplied one in every of his traditional erratic speeches, throughout which he attacked Nancy Pelosi (“a disgrace”) and the press (“fake news”) and requested his individuals to mobilize to vote for him. tomorrow. “November 5 will be liberation day in the United States. And as soon as it arrives [al Despacho Oval] “I will launch the largest deportation in history of migrant criminals: they are like animals.”

“Pennsylvania built the United States and now it is going to save the country,” he mentioned, after portray a false apocalyptic picture of the United States on the point of financial despair, as he has achieved at each rally. “I have been waiting for this for four years and there is only one day left,” added the candidate defeated by Joe Biden within the 2020 elections. Trump appeared on stage with dozens of ladies behind him holding pink indicators that learn: “Women, with Trump.” The Republican is conscious that the feminine vote is what can frustrate his return to the White House.

Reading is a city that, like so many others on this a part of the nation, has seen higher days. With about 100,000 inhabitants (68.9%), it’s the most Latino in a State that has greater than one million Hispanics and virtually half one million Puerto Ricans. And there may be the reason for not solely why Trump stopped right here this Monday to talk earlier than hundreds of his supporters on the Santander Arena, the place the native hockey staff performs, but in addition why his opponent, Democrat Kamala Harris, determined shock addition of a short stopover in Reading as a part of their specific tour final minute: the vice chairman had 5 cities deliberate, all in Pennsylvania.

Proud of its railway previous and for being the place the place they invented that combination of bread and biscuit referred to as pretzelthe fault that Reading has turn into for a number of hours one thing like the middle of world politics lies with a joke: the one the comic Tony Hinchcliffe set free a few Sundays in the past at Madison Square Garden in New York. You know, the one the place he in contrast Puerto Rico to a “floating garbage island” in the midst of the ocean.

Four hours earlier than the beginning of the occasion, tons of of individuals had been queuing on the doorways of the stadium, a few of them the primary because the earlier night time. There had been solely a handful of Latinos in line in a predominantly white crowd, and it had its traditional share of extravagances at an occasion of this sort, like that man with some sort of rock within the form of a kind of huge heads. from Easter Island to whom he had connected a mop of orange hair in honor of the chief.

A pair fashioned by the Ecuadorian Edison Güiracocha and the Salvadoran Flor Pacheco, residents of Reading since 2010, cited financial causes for voting for Trump. Also ideological: “We don’t like the ideas that Democrats want to put into children’s heads. What is this about changing sex at 10 years old?” they requested themselves.

Slightly additional away, three buddies, Jay and Justin, brothers of Puerto Rican descent, and Kenny, the proprietor of a grocery retailer of Indian origin, proud as a result of the web site Politico had posted a photograph of his enterprise that morning for instance a report on the switch of Hispanic votes in Pennsylvania in direction of the Republican candidate, they thought-about that there was nothing offensive within the joke about Puerto Rico: “First, he didn’t say it, and second, “That comedian is dedicated to disrespecting others, so I don’t know why people are surprised,” Kenny said. “I was there, in New York,” Shawn DVS 7.0, a younger man of Dominican descent who outlined himself as “a conservative Christian rapper,” later defined. “When [el cómico] He blurted it out, not many people laughed, it was a bad joke, but not offensive. “Hispanics have voted Democratic for years because they are the ones who gave them all the facilities, but that is changing.”

“That insult to Puerto Ricans changed everything and not only among that community, because when they insult one, they insult all of us Hispanics,” Johnny Cepeda-Freytiz, who is running for re-election as a Democratic state representative in the Harrisburg Capitol and that has given its restaurant Mi Casa Su Casa to the Harris campaign. It is located on the main street of downtown, where the Republican Party also has its headquarters. “There are two reasons why a Hispanic may decide to vote for Trump: because he has been brainwashed to believe that he will come to solve all economic problems and because he suffers from a case of amnesia and does not remember how the things he did when he was in the White House.” Abortion, Cepeda-Freityz admitted, may also play a role, but only among those who do not understand “the concept of separation between Church and State.”

Trump’s appearance in Reading was also delayed. It was scheduled for 2:00 p.m. and around 3:00 p.m. it had not yet made its entrance onto the scene. The question at that time was not only whether he would win on Tuesday, but how he planned to fulfill his plans and, specifically, when he would take the stage in Grand Rapids (an appearance scheduled for 10:30 p.m.), given the tendency to offer long and unpredictable speeches. Also that, as he told his followers on Saturday night in Greensboro (North Carolina), he doesn’t know how to do it any other way. “I could come here, talk for 25 minutes and leave, but I’m not going to do it,” he told a mass of his faithful, who stoically endured a two-hour delay.

In addition to the lax management of schedules, the final stretch of Trump’s campaign has been characterized by an escalation in the candidate’s rhetoric, who at the Greensboro rally on Saturday seemed to be amused by the misogynistic comment of a supporter, who said that Harris never worked at McDonald’s, but “on a nook,” and on Sunday he joked in Lilitz (Pennsylvania) with the concept in the event that they shot him once more and the bullets must go by means of the place the place the press was positioned ( pretend information, he referred to as it) the concept wouldn’t “bother” him.