ATLANTA, GA and CHARLOTTE, N.C. (NETAVISEN): – Either Donald Trump is thinking about his enemies list, or I'm checking off my to-do list, Kamala Harris told a packed stadium Friday night Norwegian time in Atlanta.
The vice president has sharpened his rhetoric in recent days.
Women: Harris will become either the first female president, or the second female candidate to lose to Trump.
Photo: Joe Rydell
This week she got another card up her sleeve when former Trump adviser, retired Army officer John Kelly, said the description of “fascist” matched Trump.
On CNN on Wednesday, the presidential candidate herself responded flatly that she believes Trump is a fascist.
– The consequences of him assuming the position of president again are very serious! Kamala Harris told the crowd in Atlanta, Georgia.
Democrats are feeling nervous these days. Trump exploits national polls and wreaks havoc on betting markets. For those still looking to the polls for advice, things are almost deadlocked in the swing states, but even there Trump has a narrow lead.
FULL STADIUM: Kamala Harris and Barack Obama filled a football stadium in the swing state of Georgia.
Photo: Helle Ling Svendsen (Netavisen)
Hoping to repeat Obama
And in Georgia and North Carolina, Democrats are already working against the odds. States usually elect a Republican candidate for president, but either party could win states in this year's elections.
In 2020, President Joe Biden achieved victory in Georgia. In 2008, Barack Obama won North Carolina.
In North Carolina, they are talking about a repeat of Obama.
But managing it without Obama himself is not the plan.
These days, the former president is moving from swing state to swing state in hopes of helping Harris get the vote.
Thursday night in Atlanta, Harris and Obama held a campaign rally together for the first time.
Obama warns that just because Trump has acted foolishly does not mean his presidency will not be dangerous.
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Obama's move that caused an uproar
Two weeks ago, President Obama caused a stir when he suggested that some black men would not vote for Harris because she is a woman.
He added: “Parts of it make me think, and now I'm talking directly to men, that maybe you don't feel comfortable with the idea of having a female president, and you come up with other options and other reasons.” The beginning of October.
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Kamala Harris has not charmed everyone in the traditional voter base.
Although she will likely win a majority of black American votes in this year's election, there are still more people leaving the party.
In one New York Times poll Nearly eight in ten black Americans say they will vote for Kamala Harris.
Biden received 90 percent of the voters' votes.
15% responded that they plan to vote for Donald Trump, an increase of 4% from the 2020 election.
– I can't speak for all black men, but I have two black male brothers. They will definitely vote for Harris. Maybe I know someone who will vote for Trump, but he's one in a hundred, says Rosetta Medina.
– Can Harris have the same enthusiasm as Obama?
– It builds itself. People still recognize her. No two people can be the same.
– We didn't see you
But time is running out for Harris.
At a park in Charlotte, North Carolina, there's not as much Kamala Harris fever as there is at a campaign rally.
– She wants to convince blacks to vote, but many confront her. We didn't see you when Biden was president. We didn't see you! Ken Clarke says.
He comes from a Democratic family. Clark has loved every former president from Bill Clinton to Joe Biden and voted for them in every election.
He was one of the electors who voted for Obama in the swing state in 2008. No Democrat has won since 1976.
– Obama is a wonderful man, he told Netafisin.
But Harris couldn't steal his voice.
He believes it's not about Harris being a woman. Clark is tired of all the promises, the sales pitches, and the message that “your vote matters.”
In light of today's economic situation, he cannot afford a place to live. He is homeless.
– The situation is worse than it was ten years ago here in Charlotte, North Carolina. Housing costs are ridiculous. “You can't even stay in a slum hotel anymore,” says Clark.
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Criticism of the LGBT plan
Clark also doesn't like the Democrats' LGBT policies.
– God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.
The fact that prisoners receive gender-affirming treatment on taxpayer dollars clearly makes him angry.
– I don't understand it. I don't understand it. Make it logical. You have all these people starving and you're worried about trans people in prison?
And while there is a list of criticisms directed at Harris, that doesn't mean he likes Trump very much either.
Trump is an idiot, but everyone knew what he was like before he was elected. People can't be angry. He has a Napoleon complex. Anyone who says if my daughter wasn't my daughter I would marry her. So…
He is still considering voting for Trump.
-If he doesn't win now, he will run in four years. He just needs to get the waste out of his system. This is his mentality. He doesn't like to lose. Clark concludes that if he doesn't win now, the “good boy” will be back in four years.
embarrassed?
Christopher Edwards thinks Harris doesn't seem real sometimes.
– She is a little “
He believes the fact that Harris struggles with black voters may also be because she is a woman.
– We may be a bit reactionary in our society, but this can help her too.
-Some people are intimidated
LeVar Henley sits at a bus stop ten minutes away.
When Netavisen asked what he thought of this year's nominees, he pulled out a brochure from his bag that Kamala Harris had mailed to him.
-You want to get black people out of prison. She has my vote!
Political ads worked. Henley says he has previously been to prison eight times for various crimes.
Harris' past as a prosecutor still doesn't bother him.
– She did her duty. They chase everyone. But I don't think cannabis is a medicine. She might not get the votes of the people she put behind bars, but otherwise she got them, he believes.
This will be the first election in which the 29-year-old has voted.
He believes that Obama is right and that some black voters will not vote for her because she is a woman.
– This is not the norm. Some scare her. He points out that she has strong opinions and great power.
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