Trump is tightening his speech in the final week of the campaign, while Harris is trying to regain her initial momentum

The United States has entered the final week of the campaign with the Republican presidential candidate, the former Republican president Donald Trumpbetting on an increasingly aggressive speech, while the Democratic vice president Kamala Harris will try to regain momentum with an act at the heart of American democracy.

This Sunday, Trump delivered a speech at Madison Square Garden in New York at an event attended by some 20,000 people and which included several speakers who launched racist and misogynistic proclamations that caused blisters even within the party itself.

The most popular are presenter and comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s words about the island Puerto Rico: “There’s literally a floating trash island in the middle of the ocean right now, I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” he said.

The words unleashed a wave of negative reactions, including from several artists such as singers Jennifer López or Ricky Martin, while the campaign tried to distance itself from this message in recent hours.

“This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign,” Danielle Alvarez, a senior adviser to the campaign, told ABC News.

The residents of Puerto Rico, a state of the Commonwealth of the United States, cannot vote in elections, but the millions of Puerto Ricans living in the United States can.

The Latino vote, key

In this election in particular, the Latino vote will be more decisive than ever, as an estimated 36.2 million people are eligible to vote this year, compared to 32.3 million in 2020. This represents 50% of the total growth in the number of eligible voters during this period. , according to data from the Pew center.

At yesterday’s event, Trump doubled down on his pledge to wage a massive campaign to deport migrants, in a speech described by outlets including CNN as “the most radical closing argument in modern presidential history.”

“Trump in the Garden: a final carnival of grievances, misogyny and racism,” the newspaper headlines today New York Times in an article recalling some of the speakers’ messages.

Like that of businessman Grant Cardone, who even suggested that Kamala Harris is a prostitute: “her pimp controllers will destroy our country,” he said. David Rem, a childhood friend of Trump, called Harris “the devil” and “the antichrist.”

According to the Harris campaign, the event in New York, which Trump sold as his symbolic closing event and closing arguments for the campaign, “went completely out of control” and became “an offensive, dark and dangerous spectacle.”

Harris will hold a symbolic meeting in Washington

To try to regain momentum and take advantage of the tight polls, Vice President Harris will hold an event tomorrow, Tuesday, exactly a week before he goes to the polls, in the heart of the US capital, on the Ellipse of the National Mall.

The setting chosen by the vice president has great symbolism because it is the space where the White House, the Capitol, the Abraham Lincoln Monument and the obelisk dedicated to George Washington are located.

The vice president will mention the 2021 attack on the Capitol, in which a mob of Trump supporters tried to stop the ratification of President Joe Biden’s election victory, an event for which the Republican was charged in court.

Precisely, Harris will speak from the Ellipse, south of the White House, the same location where Trump gave a speech to his supporters minutes before they attacked the Congress building and which, according to the prosecutor’s accusation, served to incite the attack .