Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and the current master of the White House will face off through meetings in Pennsylvania, before a decisive ballot which will lay the foundations for the presidential election of 2024.
All the spotlights are on this state, a former bastion of steel, where the multimillionaire surgeon Mehmet Oz, dubbed by Donald Trump, faces the bald colossus and former mayor John Fetterman for the most disputed seat in the Senate.
Because on this seat very possibly depends the balance of powers of this upper chamber, with immense power.
During the mid-term elections, scheduled for Tuesday, November 8, the Americans are also called upon to renew all the seats in the American House of Representatives. A whole series of local elected positions, which decide their state’s policies on abortion and environmental regulation, are also at stake.
– Tide of red caps –
Joe Biden, who has so far rather avoided the campaign platforms in favor of fundraising for his party, descends into the arena on Saturday during a large rally in Philadelphia, the cradle of American democracy.
At the end of the afternoon, the soon to be octogenarian leader will find former President Barack Obama on stage and his undeniable oratorical talents for a major campaign meeting.
A few hours later, and 400 kilometers away, another former American president, Donald Trump, will join the tide of red caps he loves for an event in the small town of Latrobe, near Pittsburgh.
After a fierce campaign centered on inflation, the Republicans are showing growing confidence in their chances of stripping the Democratic president of his majorities on November 8.
If their predictions are confirmed, the Republican billionaire seems determined to take advantage of this momentum to formalize his candidacy for the presidential election as soon as possible, possibly as early as the third week of November.
Joe Biden says so far he intends to run again, but the prospect does not necessarily delight all Democrats, because of his age – soon to be 80 – and his unpopularity.
– Abortion and inflation –
The Democratic president is trying somehow to convince Americans that this election is rather “a choice”: on the future of abortion or gay marriage – all subjects on which he has promised to legislate, with solid majorities in Congress.
The right to abortion, blasted by the Supreme Court of the United States in June, has certainly been a central theme of the race in Pennsylvania. The family planning organization Planned Parenthood has also come to lend a hand to Democrat John Fetterman several times during the campaign.
But the rise in prices – 8.2% on average over one year in the United States – remains by far the main concern of Americans and Joe Biden’s efforts to pose as “president of the middle class” are struggling for the moment. bear fruit.
“Democrats are worried,” joked Pennsylvania Republican candidate Mehmet Oz, who ran a campaign focused on managing inflation and supposedly “out of control” crime.
“The radical left knows that the dynamic is in favor” of the Republicans, he said in a message to his supporters.
