USA Podcast: The road for Kamala Harris is long, steep and rocky

The road for Kamala Harris is long, steep and rocky

Donald Trump and his rival are fighting for every vote. Be it from the unions in the Rust Belt or from women in the suburbs. Because nothing has been decided yet.

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Courting unions: Kamala Harris campaigns in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Labor Day.

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With Labor Day, the first Monday in September, died hot phase of the American election campaign started. The Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, visited the swing states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania on Labor Day, where she courted the unions. Traditionally leaning more towards the Democrats, many Republicans in the Rust Belt, the oldest and largest industrial region, voted for Donald Trump in 2016. He had promised workers battered by globalization that he would strengthen domestic industry again.

In 2020, Joe Biden appeared convincing when he promised the same language and brought the Rust Belt states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania back to the Democratic camp. Biden’s success is what Kamala Harris is trying to repeat in 2024. In the polls, she is slightly ahead of Trump, even in the Rust Belt, but nothing has been decided.

Donald Trump was not out on Labor Day. The Harris campaign responded promptly: “Trump is failing workers on Labor Day because he is an anti-worker, anti-union extremist who will betray working families for his billionaire donors if he comes to power,” said a spokesperson for the Harris team.

Trump with the conservative moms

Trump, however, is using his social media site to berate Harris for high gas and food costs and to praise his work in renegotiating the American trade agreement with Mexico and Canada. The NAFTA agreements from the Clinton years are seen by many as the root of evil, as they resulted in many American jobs being moved to low-wage Mexico.

In general, the unions are still dominated by men, and according to surveys, the majority of them want to vote for Trump. Women, on the other hand, tend to vote for Harris. The Republican wants to counteract this. He therefore visited the Mothers for freedom. Mommies for Freedom is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating LGBTQ and racism from classrooms.

School authorities are dictatorships

Trump called conservative school boards “dictatorships” that were hostile to parents’ wishes, echoing conservative frustrations that erupted in public meetings during the coronavirus pandemic. “Parents really love children. You have to give parents back their rights.”

Who is more successful with the unions and with women, Trump or Harris? Christof Münger, head of the International department, discusses this in a new episode of the USA podcast “Alles klar, Amerika?” with Fabian Fellmann, Tamedia’s USA correspondent in Washington. His colleague Martin Kilian is also connected, this time from Lexington, Kentucky.

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This continues until the US election

10 September: The second presidential debate is scheduled to take place at ABC News’ studios in Philadelphia, which will be the first between Republican Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate.

October 1: Vice presidential candidates JD Vance of the Republicans and Tim Walz of the Democrats meet for a debate at CBS in New York.

5 November: On election day, traditionally a Tuesday, a total of 538 electoral votes are up for grabs. Whoever gets 270 of them becomes President of the United States. In addition to the President, all 435 members of the House of Representatives and 34 Senators, one third of the US Senate, are up for election. In addition, gubernatorial and other elections and votes are held in various states.

You can find our complete coverage of the US elections here.

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