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21 days until the election, what are Kamala and Trump doing?
Image : There are only 21 days left before the 2024 US election, and the respective campaigns of Kamala Harris and Trump are in full swing. (Shutterstock)
There are only 21 days until the final voting day of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, and Kamala (or Harris) and Trump are working hard to win support from African-American voters, women and other key constituencies. The competition between the two candidates is very close and the campaign schedule is very tight.
On Wednesday (16 October 2024), Kamala was campaigning in Pennsylvania before being interviewed by Fox News; Trump recorded a town hall event with a Spanish-language TV station in Miami, Florida, and accepted a Spanish-language interview addressing questions from American voters before he holds a high-priced fundraiser tonight at Mar-a-Lago.
Kamala's interview show on Fox will air on Wednesday evening ET, while Trump's pre-recorded town hall event on women's issues with Fox News will air on the same morning.
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Kamala Harris calls on Republicans for support at Pennsylvania campaign event
Kamala appealed to Republicans and independent voters at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, portraying former President Donald Trump as a dangerous and destabilizing threat to American democracy.
Former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), who joined her campaign, said it was time to put "country before party."
Standing in front of a slogan that read "The country is above political parties," Kamala said the constitution was designed to ensure the peaceful transfer of power and was "not a relic of our past." The Constitution "determines whether we are a country where people can speak freely and even criticize the president without fear of being thrown in jail," she said.
In a town hall event hosted by Fox News that was broadcast that day, Trump once again called Democratic Party members "internal enemies" and more dangerous than foreign enemies. Trump called them "Marxists, communists and fascists."
The vice president's campaign criticized Trump's statement as "ridiculous."
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Trump answers tough questions at Miami town hall event
Trump faced tough questions at a town hall event hosted by Univision, the nation's leading Spanish-language television network.
A man at the scene asked about the incident at the Capitol on 6 January 2021.
Trump reiterated his view that no one did anything wrong on 6 January and said that from the perspective of the millions of participants, it was a "day of love."
The former president made similar comments in an interview with Bloomberg yesterday, saying, "Some people went to the Capitol, and there were a lot of strange things happening there. People were waved into the Capitol by the police, and people were yelling, 'Get in ’, but these people never got into trouble.”
Trump also answered questions about immigration, guns and abortion, including whether he agrees with his wife Melania Trump saying in a new memoir that she supports abortion rights.
Trump responded by saying that he encouraged Melania to support positions she wanted to support while promoting her new book.
Trump regards the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the justices he selected for the U.S. Supreme Court as an achievement of his term but Trump has said he would veto the federal abortion ban if re-elected, arguing that the issue should be left to states to legislate.
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The outcome of the U.S. presidential election is determined by the 95 electoral votes in the decisive battle districts
Reporter : Wu Xianglian / Editor : Li Muen / https://www.epochtimes.com/b5/24/10/17/n14352086.htm / Image : In the 2024 U.S. election, Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris (left) versus Republican presidential candidate Trump (right). (Wu Xianglian/Epoch Times synthesis)
The U.S. presidential election will be held on 5 November 2024. According to the U.S. electoral system, the president is elected by 538 electors, including 270 electoral votes. is the threshold for electoral victory. The Wall Street Journal reported that the outcome of this year’s presidential election will depend on a total of 95 electoral votes in seven swing states plus one congressional district each in Nebraska and Maine.
The seven swing states are Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, with a total of 93 electoral votes.
Among states, only Nebraska and Maine allocate part of their electoral votes based on the results of congressional district votes. Among them, Maine's 2nd Congressional District and Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District have 2 electoral votes. Together with 93 votes in the seven major swing states, there are 95 electoral votes in total.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday (16 October) that based on data analysis, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris is likely to win 225 electoral votes, while Republican candidate Trump is likely to win 218 electoral votes.
The report pointed out that for Kamala, Michigan and Wisconsin must be preserved. At the same time, Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes are also particularly important. If Trump wins Georgia and North Carolina, she must win Pennsylvania to have any hope of winning.
According to report analysis, the final result may be a deadlock. If Kamala wins comprehensively in the swing states of the "Rust Belt", Trump can tie it by winning all the electoral votes in other swing states and Nebraska, and then the House of Representatives will decide the winner of the presidential election, with each state's House delegation getting one vote.
The Journal's analysis draws on data from nonpartisan online reports: Cook Political Report, Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales and University of Virginia Politics "Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball" from the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
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