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US presidential, Wp poll: Harris-Trump 49% to 45%. The tycoon: rigged Dem convention

At the beginning of July, Trump was at 43%, Biden at 42% and Kennedy at 9%.

18 August 2024

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New poll in favour of Kamala Harris , the Democratic Party's presidential candidate. According to a Washington Post-Abc News-Ipsos survey of the November national vote, the Dem presidential candidate leads 49% to 45% in a duel only against Donald Trump, the Republican Party candidate, while including third-party candidates she is at 47% to the tycoon's 44%, with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at 5%.

In early July, Trump was at 43%, Biden at 42% and Kennedy at 9%. Given the margin of error in this poll, which only tests national support, Harris' lead among registered voters is not considered statistically significant.

Harris and Walz by bus to Pennsylvania before Chicago

Kamala Harris and her deputy Tim Walz will spend the day on board a bus in southwestern Pennsylvania, before travelling to Chicago in the evening for the Democratic convention that opens tomorrow 19 August. The vice president and the governor of Minnesota will be accompanied by their spouses, Doug Emhoff and Gwen Walz, and then Harris and her husband will hold a in Rochester, Beaver County, where Donald Trump won in 2020.

It was the eighth visit in a year and the second in a month by the Democratic candidate to Pennsylvania, a key state for victory in the 5 November elections and still poised between her and the tycoon.

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Trump launches counterprogramme at Dem convention

Meanwhile, Donald Trump is launching a counter-programme at the Dem convention. Tomorrow, 19 August, he will hold a rally with his deputy JD Vance in York, Pennsylvania, a swing state where he has already been yesterday: focus on the economy.

In the following days his campaign plans to highlight different themes as the tycoon holds campaign rallies in other swing states.

Trump, Dem convention rigged, Harris illegitimate nominee

'A rigged convention', the consequence of a 'coup d'état against Joe Biden': this is Donald Trump's latest attack on his rival Kamala Harris on the eve of the event that will crown the Democratic nominee.

In his rally last night in Pennsylvania, the tycoon again challenged Harris's legitimacy for entering the race without a grassroots vote after Biden had won the primary. An argument he could use to contest the outcome of the election, should he lose.

Biden opens Dem convention and passes torch to Harris

Joe Biden bids farewell to the leadership and officially hands over the baton to Kamala Harris who in just a few weeks has put a party in an identity crisis back on track and turned around the fortunes of an election that had been lost.

The elderly president opened the Democratic convention in Chicago with an investiture speech for his deputy, presenting her as an 'exceptional leader', the only guarantor at this time of democracy and the freedoms that Donald Trump threatens.

"The president will explain how, in the battle for America's soul, we ensured that democracy prevailed, and now, with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, we must ensure that democracy is preserved," a Biden advisor reported.

In the mecca of basketball and of Michael Jordan's one-time Chicago Bulls, the United Center, the commander-in-chief will also claim his achievements in these four years in the White House - from maxi climate investments to infrastructure and from healthcare to the recovery of the economy after the Covid crisis - and will take the opportunity to enjoy the last embrace of his Democratic supporters.

The organisers have prepared signs for the audience saying 'spread the faith', a typical Biden expression. On the other hand, the president arrives at the convention at the end of a positive week for the administration, as the White House pointed out in a note highlighting the reduction in illegal border crossings with Mexico, crime, inflation and drug prices. These are all results to be flaunted in Chicago in order to attack the Republicans who, the statement emphasises, blocked action on the border with Mexico and did not vote on either the bill to fund law enforcement or the bill to reduce the cost of drugs.

Hillary Clinton present tomorrow

Also speaking on the first day of the Democratic kermesse will be Hillary Clinton, who after so many years will find herself on a stage together with the man who wanted to run in 2016 in her place but was preferred then secretary of state by Barack Obama, and the first lady Jill, her husband's staunchest supporter, always at his side.