International Desk
Despite the historic upheaval in the US presidential election, pre-election surveys show a close race between Democratic Vice President Harris and Republican former President Trump. The elections are to be held on November 5. In the last week, both the candidates are making all efforts to influence the voters. Harris, 60, will deliver a speech on Tuesday at the same venue where Trump gathered supporters to protest his election loss in 2020. This incident took place before the attack on the US Parliament on January 6, 2021.
78-year-old Trump is also relying on symbols. He held a major rally at New York's Madison Square Garden, marking the beginning of his final attempt. Meanwhile, two ballot drop boxes caught fire in the Portland area of Oregon, as well as a similar incident in Vancouver, Washington. American investigative agencies are investigating this.
Such an incident has never happened before in the history of American presidential elections. The Portland Police Bureau said officers were called to a ballot box fire in Oregon around 3:30 a.m. local time on Monday. “Incendiary devices” were used there. The security personnel immediately brought the fire under control.
Multnomah County Elections Director Tim Scott confirmed that three parts inside the box burned, according to CNN. Now officials will contact those voters to provide replacement ballot papers. Such voters have been identified through the ballot box. The votes of voters whose ballot papers have been burnt will be counted. Police officials have appealed that those who had deposited their ballot papers here on Saturday and Sunday should come forward and tell about the same. Their votes will be counted.
A ballot box was set on fire at a polling booth near a bus station in Vancouver early Monday morning. Vancouver police are investigating. A “suspicious device” was found next to the burning ballot box. The Clark County Elections Office said hundreds of ballots were burned, CNN reported.
Donald Trump told his supporters on Monday that he is “not a Nazi.” He rejected the allegations of considering his authority as supreme. A former Chief of Staff of the Army had called Trump a fascist.
“The newest line from Kamala and her campaign is that anybody who's not voting for her is a Nazi. But I'm not a Nazi. I'm against Nazis,” Trump said at the Atlanta rally. Trump had to make this comment because his aides made racist comments during a mega-rally in New York's famous Madison Square Garden. Which is being widely condemned.
In an interview given to The New York Times, General John Kelly, the longest serving White House Chief of Staff during and after the Trump tenure, gave many sensational information. Kelly reported that Trump had commented that “Hitler had done some good things too” and that Trump “wanted generals like Adolf Hitler” in the US military.
In fact, tension is at its peak in the US elections. The rhetoric has intensified. Election surveys are showing that Kamala Harris and Trump are running very close in the race. The fear among people is that former President Trump may again refuse to accept defeat like in 2020. Trump is not backing down from his harsh rhetoric threatening his political opponents.
Kamala Harris told reporters on Monday: “Last night, Donald Trump's event at Madison Square Garden really highlighted the point I have been making throughout this campaign. Trump's focus on himself and on dividing our country. “All this is in no way something that will strengthen the American family, the American people.”
The challenge for both Harris and Trump in the last round of elections is to activate key supporters and attract voters. Because there is a tough race in the seven swing states. Every vote is important. Kamala Harris held three events in Michigan on Monday, while Trump hosted two events in Georgia. Now till the elections, the emphasis of both will be on seven swing states only.
On Tuesday in Washington, Kamala Harris is set to deliver a speech from the same location near the White House in what will be considered the “closing speech” of her campaign. Where Trump can be presented as a leader who likes anarchy. This is the same place where then President Trump incited his supporters to violently attack the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. That incident has been recorded in history as Trump being the person who promoted anarchism.
CNN has exposed 16 false claims made by Trump at Madison Square Garden. Former President Donald Trump made several false claims about immigration and other topics in his speech at a rally held Sunday evening at Madison Square Garden in New York City Repeatedly, many of which have long been refuted. This includes FEMA and North CarolinaFEMA and migrants, Trump's favorite immigration chart.Trump repeated his long-debunked false claim that his favorite chart about migration numbers at the southern border in which he said, when “Illegal immigration was the lowest it has ever been in history. This is not shown in the chart.
Trump repeated these false claims about Vice President Kamala Harris: “She was the border czar. She was in charge of the border.” Harris was never a “border czar,” a label the White House has always insisted is inaccurate, and she was never in charge of border security, which is the responsibility of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. In fact, President Joe Biden gave Harris a more limited immigration-related assignment in 2021, asking her to lead diplomacy with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to address the circumstances that have led to their Motivated citizens to attempt to immigrate to the United States. Migrants, cities and towns: Trump reiterated his pledge that if elected he would liberate every “city and town that has been invaded and occupied by migrants.” This is nonsense; No city in America has been taken over by immigrants.
Trump makes false claim about migrants in Springfield, Ohio. “You look at Springfield, Ohio, think about it – where, think about it, where 30,000 illegal immigrants were put into a town of 50,000 people.”That's a lie in more ways than one. Trump repeated his regular false claim that, because of Harris, “325,000 children are missing, dead, sex slaves or slaves. They came and went through the open border. Their parents may never see them again, almost any of them.”Trump was badly distorting federal data.
Trump repeated his false claim that he had “finished” the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, adding, “It was finished.” Trump didn't kill the pipeline. He signed project-related sanctions into law nearly three years into his presidency, when the pipeline was already about 90% complete, and the state-owned Russian company behind the project announced in December 2020 that construction would then resume. Starting from.
Trump repeated his false claim that “it took us four weeks” to defeat the ISIS terror group, despite generals telling him it would take five years. More than two years after Trump became president, the ISIS “caliphate” was declared fully independent. Trump falsely claimed that, when he was president, “we had no inflation.” Cumulative inflation during Trump's presidency was about 8%.
Trump falsely claimed that Harris's votes to break legislative ties in the U.S. Senate “led to the worst inflation in the history of our country.” Apart from the claims about Harris' role, it is not true that the US has had its worst inflation ever during the Biden administration; Trump can objectively say that the US inflation rate reached a 40-year high in June 2022, when it was 9.1%, but it was nowhere close to the all-time record of 23.7% set in 1920.
Trump claimed his support from police officers and law enforcement organizations, then lied about Harris: “I don't think they have a single cop. They're just looking for a cop.” Trump repeated his false claim that “I rebuilt our military, by and large – rebuilt all of our armies.” Trump repeated his false claim that his opponents “used Covid to cheat” in the 2020 election.
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