The American presidential election is in full swing and the ruling Democrats have chosen their opponent to crystallize their criticism: Donald Trump. The Vice-President of the United States Kamala Harris declared on Wednesday that she was “damn afraid” that the former Republican president would return to power in November.
“I’m damn scared, and that’s why I’m traveling the country […] We should all be afraid,” she said on the set of an ABC television program. “But we must not run away from what scares us, we must fight against it,” explained the 59-year-old Democrat. These words echo those of Michelle Obama. The former first lady recently said she was “terrified” by the possibility of a second Trump term.
Harris wants to mobilize young people, African-Americans and women
The Democratic vice-president, President Joe Biden’s running mate for the November presidential election, is increasing her travels to mobilize young people, African-Americans and women, particularly around the defense of the right to abortion.
During the same show, Kamala Harris unleashed her blows against the Republican tycoon, the overwhelming favorite in the race for the Republican nomination. “Here is a man, the former president, who presents himself promising, basically, to be a dictator. An individual who wants to return to the White House and who says he is “proud” to have deprived American women of the right to control their own bodies. An individual who wants to be commander in chief and who recognizes that he would exploit the Ministry of Justice,” she enumerated.
Abortion at the heart of the campaign
Donald Trump recently said he was “proud” of the role he played, by appointing conservative judges, in the Supreme Court’s decision to end the constitutional right to abortion in June 2022. This right has been guaranteed throughout the United States since the 1970s by the famous “Roe V. Wade” case law. Following the Court’s decision, many conservative American states have banned voluntary terminations of pregnancies.
Defending the right to abortion is a major campaign focus for the vice-president. “What Kamala does has a powerful impact on young women,” commented a former spokesperson for Donald Trump, Kayleigh McEnany, reacting to this televised intervention on the conservatives’ favorite channel, Fox News.