U.S. election: Polls suggest tight race post-debate
12 September 2024 |
12:54 am
United States election remains a close call with little margin of victory among the top candidates, as Vice President Kamala Harris averages 49 per cent support across recent polls while Trump stands at 48 per cent
United States election remains a close call with little margin of victory among the top candidates, as Vice President Kamala Harris averages 49 per cent support across recent polls while Trump stands at 48 per cent, according to the latest CNN Poll of Polls.
The average suggests no clear leader in the race just eight weeks until Election Day. The CNN Poll of Polls is an average of the six most recent non-partisan, national surveys of registered or likely voters that meet CNN’s standards and ask about a 2024 presidential general election between Harris and Trump.
Yesterday, Vice President and presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, Kamala Harris, accused the former President, Donald Trump, of dividing the people of the United States of America along racial lines.
Harris said this, yesterday, during the first presidential debate with the Republican candidate and former President, Trump. The debate was organised by ABC News in Philadelphia.
She derided the Republican candidate and called him a bad loser of the 2020 election, accusing him of inciting an insurrection to run over the Capitol and killing many protesters.
According to her, world leaders were laughing at Trump, while military leaders called him a “disgrace.” She accused him of ingratiating himself with world dictators and got carried away by their flatteries.
“Honestly, I think it is a tragedy that we have someone, who wants to be President, who has consistently over the course of his career attempted to use race to divide the American people.
“I think the American people want better than that, want better than this,” she said, also stressing that the present administration had been clearing the mess caused by the Trump administration.
But Trump noted that the Biden-Harris administration had meted untold hardship on the people and tremendously hurt the economy, blaming them for the spreading unrest happening across the world.
He said the Ukrainian war and Israeli-Hamas war, among others, would not have happened if he had won a second term in office. He disclosed that Harris hated both Israel and the Arab population.
He blamed the global unrest on the Biden-Harris failed international policies and gross incompetence, and warned that their poor international policies would, inevitably, cause a Third World War.
“If she is President, I believe that Israel will not exist within two years from now, and I’ve been pretty good at predictions, and I hope I’m not wrong about that one,” Trump said.
He referred to the “poor immigration policies of the Biden-Harris administration,” saying over 11 million illegal immigrants had found their way into America, leading to astronomical rise in crime.
Trump told Harris not to wait till she became the President before delivering on her “bogus” promises to the citizenry, urging her to start giving them such dividends of democracy since she was the incumbent Vice President.
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