Donald Trump is betting everything on his electoral base

Supporters of Donald Trump in Mosinee, Wisconsin on September 17.

Donald Trump swallows the stages of his presidential race with the same energy as in 2016. After a weekend in Nevada, then a passage through Arizona, he went again to Wisconsin on Thursday, September 17. Minnesota was on the schedule for Friday before a meeting in North Carolina the next day. So many states that will be bitterly disputed on November 3, the day of the presidential election.

More than ever confused with the tenant of the Oval office, the Republican candidate donned the clothes of the first, on Thursday, to stigmatize during a trip to the National Archives “Riots and left chaos”, “direct result of decades of left indoctrination in our schools”. “It’s been going on for too long”, asserted the president before promising the creation of a national commission to promote a ” pro-American program that celebrates the truth about our nation’s great history “. Such a program does not fall under the jurisdiction of the Federal State.

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It is also the candidate rather than the president who had brutally denied, the day before, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Robert Redfield, by affirming that at least 100 million doses of a vaccine eagerly awaited against Covid-19 could be distributed in the United States “From October”, or before the presidential election. The director of the CDC had previously assured, during a hearing in the Senate, that it could not be administered in large quantities before the middle of the year 2021, or a little earlier. “He made a mistake when he said that”, said Donald Trump. “He was confused, I think. He probably misunderstood the question “, he added.

A battle of low blows

This activism is not limited to speeches. The president and his campaign team have also chosen a battle of low blows. “I can be brutal”, had threatened the Republican Sunday in Nevada. Videos rigged to weaken Joe Biden are increasing. On two occasions, Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, the President of the United States shared on his Twitter account a montage which suggested that the former vice-president had played the rap title on his mobile phone. Fuck the police, during a meeting in Florida with the Puerto Rican community, when it was the success of 2017, Despacito, whose author, Luis Fonsi, had just paid tribute to him. Donald Trump also shared, in the week, the message of a faithful, anonymous, accusing Joe Biden of pedophilia.

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