Fears Grow of Possible Acts of Political Violence // No Matter Who Wins, Millionaires Make Plans to Flee, Analysts Say
▲ In the image on the left, an appearance of the Women’s March in Chicago, one of its 50 mobilizations yesterday in the country in favor of Kamala Harris.Photo Ap
▲ Donald Trump supporters in North Carolina.Photo Ap
David Brooks and Jim Cason
Correspondents
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, November 3, 2024, p. 17
New York and Washington. Both presidential candidates carried out campaign tours in the south of the country, taking their battle to the key states of Georgia and North Carolina, among others, to offer what are already their closing arguments of an aberrant contest in which for now it is carried out between accusations of fraud, suppression of votes, threats of political violence, while several rich people have plans to flee the country and some hope that women will save this democracy.
Democrat Kamala Harris held rallies in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was accompanied, among others, by film director Spike Lee, singer Victoria Monet and the two Democratic senators from that state, where she was introduced by a young man who voted for the first time and who was presented as son of a migrant factory worker. The vice president repeated her speech from recent days in which she warned of the dangers of giving political power to her electoral opponent, and ensuring that for this reason she will triumph and be president. of all.
In the last elections, Georgia was won by Joe Biden over Trump by only 11,700 votes.
Later, the vice president repeated that message on a couple of stops on her tour in North Carolina, another of the seven key states that will determine this national election.
And, in an increasingly rare appearance in support of the election, President Joe Biden – whose absence has been the most notable part of his role in this election – held an event in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he was born, and where he highlighted his support for the unions whose votes will be decisive in a state that Democrats need to win to stay in the White House.
Republican Donald Trump held rallies in North Carolina (he will return three more times before the election on Tuesday to try to win it), where he emphasized with his famous modesty that We are just three days away from the largest political victory in the history of the world. Later, he will take his motion to an event in Virginia.
Yesterday, the Women’s March held more than 400 events in each of the 50 states in defense of reproductive rights and in support of Harris. We are facing a decision between freedom and fascismdeclared Rachel O’Leary Carmona, executive director of the organization, to the media.
Meanwhile, the polls continue to register a technical tie at the national level and in the key states, with analysts stating that they do not dare to make predictions about the result in those seven states.
They are a latent danger
And the race remains under siege over fears of possible acts of political violence during and after Tuesday, the final day of voting, with Trump and his followers fueling accusations of fraud and cheating by Democrats, including his eternal complaint that they are allowing the illegal vote of migrants.
Federal authorities and in several states continue to warn about threats of possible violence.
On the other hand, a survey by a company that advises wealthy Americans indicates that 53 percent of that nation’s millionaires say they are likely to leave the country after the election regardless of who wins amid fears of possible social unrest, NBC reported. News.
It is an all or nothing election, for those who decide to votesays reporter Dan Balz in an analysis in Washington Post.
Those on the losing side will feel like the apocalypse has happened. He indicated that the margins are so close in the seven key states, recalling that four years ago, the key states of Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin were won by less than one percentage point – and the difference was about 43 thousand votes.
He adds that never before in recent times have the margins of difference in all the key states been so narrow.
One of the factors, she indicates, along with other analysts, is the women’s vote – more men favor Trump, with more women opting for the Democrats – and women participate more.
Women are going to save this democracypredicted the English singer-songwriter and activist Billy Bragg, during a tour in the United States.
