The distance duel continues. “Bloodbath”, “carnage”, “chaos”… Donald Trump did not skimp on virulent remarks this Tuesday, during his speech on immigration in Michigan and Wisconsin, decisive states to win against to Joe Biden in the November presidential election.
The septuagenarian, who had only held one rally since the confirmation of his new duel with his Democratic successor, wants to silence any speculation surrounding the slowdown in his pace.
Donald Trump focused his speech in Grand Rapids, Michigan, around immigration, accusing Joe Biden of having imported "the carnage, the chaos, and the killings from around the world" and having "dumped it directly" into Americans. Accustomed to very violent anti-migrant rhetoric, the former president denounced “Biden's bloodbath at the border” with Mexico.
Eradicate the communists
The expression, explosive to say the least, is the one that Donald Trump is using these days to criticize his rival's migration policy, a key theme of his campaign. The Republican Party even launched a website “BidenBloodbath.com” that warns of an “invasion supported and facilitated by Joe Biden.” In recent months, the Republican has affirmed that the American economy would be "a butchery" if he was not re-elected, accused migrants of "poisoning the blood" of the country, or even promised to "eradicate the communists , Marxists, fascists and thugs of the radical left”, calling them “vermin”.
This Friday, he also shared on his social network a doctored image of Joe Biden tied up, causing astonishment among his opponents. A few hours after Grand Rapids, Donald Trump headed to Wisconsin where he criticized Joe Biden for allowing what he called "the invasion of our country." “We will free this nation of Dirty Joe and his migrant armies from dangerous criminals once and for all,” he said. In his two speeches, he promised to put an end to “the looting, rape, massacres, and destruction of our American suburbs, cities, and villages.”
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Donald Trump organized the rally in Grand Rapids, a city near Lake Michigan where he held his last campaign meeting in 2016. The Republican then created a surprise and won the state - and the keys to the White House - facing to Hillary Clinton. But in 2020, Michigan preferred Joe Biden to Donald Trump, the Democrat having managed to win back suburban white voters, union workers and the large black community.
For the November election, polls so far show Donald Trump as the winner in the state. But the election should be played out in a pinch. Like in Wisconsin. Donald Trump also created the feat in this state in 2016, against Hillary Clinton.
Here again Joe Biden had managed to tilt it again in favor of the Democrats, in 2020. These states which switch from one party to another are decisive for the presidential election. The very particular electoral system of the United States means that they alone can decide the result of the national vote.
25 million raised by Joe Biden
The octogenarian president has plowed through these contested states in recent weeks: he has been in Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania... The Democrat also won $25 million this Thursday during 'a major fundraising evening, an extremely valuable windfall in a country where electoral victories are won with billions of dollars.
Donald Trump is due to host a fundraiser from his luxury residence in Florida this Saturday, during which he hopes to surpass the amount raised by Joe Biden. The Republican wants to stop any possible dynamic from his Democratic rival before being caught up again in his legal troubles.
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His first criminal trial begins on April 15, before potential deadlines in Florida, Georgia or the capital Washington. He confirmed this Tuesday that he had filed a guarantee of $175 million in court the day before to avoid legal seizures of his assets, in a case where he was sentenced in New York to $454 million in fines for financial fraud. . He appealed.
In his speech in Green Bay, Donald Trump also responded to Joe Biden who often describes him as a threat to democracy. “I am not a threat to democracy. Joe Biden and the fascists who control him – and they control him – are the real threat to democracy.”