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US ready for woman president - Kamala Harris

POSTED ON October 23, 2024 •   Politics      BY Benedicta Bassey
The United States presidential candidate for Democratic party, Kamala Harris/ Photo credit: AP News

The United States presidential candidate for the Democratic party, Kamala Harris, said America is “absolutely” ready to elect its first woman president, adding that she wants to turn the page for the nation.

As the US election begins in two weeks, Harris and Trump are saturating swing states canvassing for votes.

Speaking on the national NBC network, Harris said, “Absolutely, America is ready to elect its first woman"  but also noted her candidacy was about “turning the page.”

“People are exhausted with Donald Trump and his approach, because it’s all about himself,” she said.

Speaking to North Carolina supporters, Trump pitched a very different message.

“This election is a choice between whether we will have four more years of incompetence, failure and disaster, or whether we’ll begin the four greatest years in the history of our country,” he said to cheers.

During the rally, he repeatedly called Harris and her running mate Tim Walz stupid.

The race is, however, clouded by extraordinary tensions and fears of violence or a refusal by Trump to recognize the results if he loses, as he continues to do over his 2020 loss to Joe Biden.

Harris told NBC that her campaign was “of course” ready for a scenario where Trump prematurely claims victory during a vote-counting process that could take days to complete.

Biden, who has been an infrequent presence in Harris’s campaign, took a shot at Trump Tuesday by re-wording the ex-president’s notorious anti-Hillary Clinton chant of “Lock her up”.

On a visit to New Hampshire, Biden told a small crowd that “politically we have to lock Trump up.”

With Trump facing multiple pending criminal charges as he competes against Harris to succeed Biden, the White House has been very careful not to weigh in on the Republican’s legal problems.

The Trump campaign responded that Biden and Harris had a “plan all along… to politically persecute their opponent.”

About 18 million Americans have already voted by mail or in person  representing more than 10 per cent of the total in 2020.

Some polls appear to give the Republican, who at 78 is the oldest nominee from a major party in US history, a slight edge recently  but all within the margin of error.

Whatever the result, US voters will make history on November 5: they will either elect the country’s first woman president or put the first convicted felon into the White House.

Speaking at a rally in Madison on Tuesday, the former president rolled back the years with fiery attacks on Trump.

“Don’t boo, vote!” he implored people after his jibes.

Non-traditional media, including podcasts, have played a vital role in the campaign in targeting specific audiences like young women and Black men.

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