The former president of the United States and Republican candidate, donald trumpstarred this Wednesday an intense day of campaigning in Wisconsin and Michigantwo key states that he hopes to take next November from his rival, Democratic President Joe Biden, taking advantage of a pause in his trial in New York.
The Republican gave a speech to his followers in Waukesha, outside Milwaukee (Wisconsin), and then did the same in Freeland (Michigan), in an attempt to mobilize the white vote of the manufacturing areas of the Midwest of the country.
Trump has repeatedly complained that the trial against him for allegedly falsifying business records to buy the silence of porn actress Stormy Daniels in 2016 keeps him away from the election campaign for the elections on November 5.
For this reason, he has not wasted his opportunity to attack this Wednesday in two campaign events against Bidenwhom he described as “the worst president in history” for inflation and for having allowed an “invasion” of migrants on the southern border.
One day after announcing in an interview with the magazine time who plans to use the Army to arrest undocumented immigrants, Trump promised the largest deportation the country has ever seen.
“Allowing the entry through the southern border of millions and millions of people, many of them very bad, is not sustainable. They are going to destroy the country. We are going to carry out the largest deportation in history. We have no other option,” he said.
University protests and abortion
He has also assured that Crime has skyrocketed under Bidenalthough he praised the work of the police officers and took the opportunity to congratulate the New York agents who on Tuesday They cleared the protest of pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University.
“The police arrived and in two hours everything was over. It was beautiful to see,” said the Republican, who said that Biden has been missing while the protests at universities spread.
Their appearances coincided with the entry into force today in Florida of a law that restricts abortion to six weeks of gestationwhen many women are not yet pregnant.
Trump has taken credit that the Supreme Court, with three of its nine judges appointed by it, overturned in 2022 the ruling that protected abortion at the federal level and defended that each state should have its own legislation.
Some of His followers asked him for a total ban on abortionbut the Republican, who fears that being too radical on this issue could cost him the elections, reminded them that the most important thing is to “win the elections.”
In fact, Democrats want campaign to revolve around reproductive rights and this same Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Florida to accuse Trump of wanting to ban abortion throughout the country if he returns to the White House.
A candidate charged four times
The Republican not only became the first former president of the United States to sit in the dock, but He also faces three other criminal cases who are still pending trial.
He is charged in a federal court in Washington for trying to reverse the elections he lost in 2020 against Biden and for having instigated the assault on the Capitol, in a court in Miami for illegally retaining classified documents, and in a state court in Georgia for electoral interference.
But his turbulent judicial path It has not taken its toll on him in the surveys. According to the latest polls, he slightly leads the race in several states that, like Wisconsin, will be key to defining the next occupant of the White House.
“I was accused of nothing, I didn’t do anything wrong. Then they accused me again, and again, and again (…) But the polls are going better than ever,” he mocked before a dedicated audience that he motivated to mobilize against. Biden faces fear that the president will “unleash chaos in our economy.”
According to the latest polls, Trump leads the voting intention at the national level, But the Electoral College system used to elect the president makes some swing states key to tipping the balance.
The Rust Belt regionof which Wisconsin and Michigan are part, is an industrial area cluegiven that Trump swept there in 2016, but Biden managed to turn it around in 2020.
Biden has the electoral support of the powerful motor union UAWvery influential in the area, and Trump did not miss the opportunity to warn that if the current president is re-elected all vehicles in the United States will end up being “made in China.”
