4 days before the election, Trump criticizes cars like those of his sponsor Musk // Harris relies on Los Tigres del Norte to attract the Latino vote
▲ In Arizona, the Northern Tigers entertained the Democratic rally.Photo Afp
David Brooks and Jim Cason
Correspondents
La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, November 1, 2024, p. 17
New York and Washington. All the politicians are disguised in this halloween: or as a convicted and multiple accused of sexual abuse and rape, presenting himself as a protective of women, or a vice president who presumes to be a promoter of peace when her government is accused of complicity in genocide, but the “show must continue”
While parades and parties dressed as ghosts, mummies, witches (politically correct), skulls and bloody madmen were being prepared (it used to be a day for a children’s game, but adults have stolen the date), the election is what most It scares many, especially for opponents of the right-wing scare campaign who are still amazed that the tie between the two candidates persists.
Proselytism maintains an incessant rhythm of events and tours in the seven key states that will determine the national result of this election with the elections, which conclude on Tuesday – although no one knows when there will be a final result and if it will be accepted (especially if it is in against the Republican candidate). And in these final days, Latino suffrage is in the spotlight.
That can be heard and seen in Democrat Kamala Harris’s rallies yesterday in the key states of the southwest: Los Tigres del Norte offered their music at a campaign event in Phoenix, Arizona, and later the candidate held another event with Maná and actress and singer Jennifer Lopez in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Democrats have used racist comments made by Republicans against their opponents, such as the phrase of a comedian at Donald Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden: Puerto Rico is a floating island of garbagein an effective strategy to promote the Latino vote (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t1u4oi84FA), along with celebrity testimonials from the shows.
An opinion article signed by Ricky Martin, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Rita Moreno – three of the most awarded artists in music, film and theater – was published yesterday in The New York Times. In this writing, they praise the massive cultural contribution of their island to the United States and repudiate the racist expressions they have suffered.
America is changing, as always: how it looks, what it listens to, what it eatsand they argue that these modifications are worrying for some, which explains the racist comments, but that no one stops this transformation, so they invite: Forget the noise. listen to the harmony. Puerto Ricans, unlike Latino migrants and their families, are born with the right to vote in the United States, and could be decisive in some of the key states, including Pennsylvania.
The Republican had managed to expand the support of sectors of the Latino electorate, but that stumble at one of his events could have been a very expensive gift for the Democrats. Trump unknowingly gave his opponents another gift. In one of his increasingly incoherent speeches at an election rally in Wisconsin, the candidate accused of sexual abuse by more than 20 women and found guilty in a civil rape case, and who in the past has said that because he is famous the women They allow him to touch even their vaginas whenever he wantsit was declared protector of women and that will protect them whether women like it or not.
Harris immediately highlighted the comment in her speeches and interviews, emphasizing that, along with nullifying the right to choose an abortion, the comment reveals Who is the tycoon: a man who believes that female citizens should not decide for themselves.
At all his events, Harris insisted: we are here because we are fighting for a democracy. And along with this he repeated that It’s time for a new generation of leadership in Americathat is, she (she is 60 years old), to contrast with who is now the oldest presidential candidate after the departure of Joe Biden, Trump, at 78 years old.
Yesterday, at a proselytizing rally in New Mexico, Trump decided to resume his attack against electric vehicles, accusing that Democrats are using Gestapo tactics to force people to buy electric cars.
All of this is even stranger given that his great friend, who has contributed almost $150 million of his own fortune to his campaign, is Elon Musk, the richest man on the planet and owner of the electric car company Tesla.
In his speeches in Albuquerque he commented that he went to that state “because I like you, it is good for my credentials with the Hispanic or Latino community… I love Hispanics… they are good workers, they are good entrepreneurs, and they are great people, they are warm.” .
The former president also had events in Nevada and Arizona, two keys on the electoral map, and where the relatively broad support of some Latinos continues to surprise. And on all its scales it returned to the point that the elections they are rigged –if he doesn’t win them–.
Threats of violence
Trump continues to fuel the volatile environment with threats of violence in his actions and statements, accusing his opponents of being the enemy within of the United States, including journalists. With this, an aberrant contest proceeds that continues to break with the supposed norms of an election, and where the antecedent of an attempted coup d’état and the Republican’s refusal to commit to the most basic rule of an election is still present: recognize and respect the result.
Meanwhile, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported that its emergency team has trained more than 700 communications professionals in personal safety this year for coverage of the presidential elections in this country, due to concerns that violence politics passes to the physical plane, as well as the task of authorities to maintain order at all costs.
The organization offers videos and other information on protection. Since the beginning of 2020, the US Press Freedom Tracker has documented more than 800 attacks against journalists covering political events and protests.
