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برلمانى: رفع وكالة فيتش التصنيف الائتمانى لمصر يؤكد قدراتها المالية والنقدية
أكد النائب عمرو القماطى عضو مجلس الشيوخ، على الأهمية الكبيرة التى ينطوى عليها رفع وكالة فيتش التصنيف الائتمانى لمصر. قائلا إنه يؤكد ويعزز قدراتها المالية والنقدية واستقرار اقتصادها رغم الأزمات والتحديات.
ونوه القماطى فى تصريح له، بأن رفع التصنيف الائتمانى لمصر إلى B يساهم فى تقليل مخاطر التمويل الخارجى، وطمأنة للجهات الدولية المُقرضة والمانحة والتى تلجأ الدولة المصرية للاقتراض منها، وخفض معدلات الفائدة المتزايدة والتى ترتفع كلما زادت مخاطر عدم القدرة على السداد. كما أن النظرة المستقبلية من وكالة “فيتش”، تتوقف على تحقق توقعها بأن تكون مرونة سعر الصرف أكثر استدامة مما كانت عليه فى الماضى وكلها ايجابيات لصالح الاقتصاد الوطني.
وأشار عضو مجلس الشيوخ، إلى أن تبنى الدولة المصرية خطة إصلاح اقتصادى استثنائية حقيقية، الفترة الماضية بتوجيهات الرئيس السيسى آتت ثمارها فى رفع التصنيف الائتمانى لمصر وتقليل المخاطر، علاوة على مواصلة سير الدولة فى دعم القطاعات الإنتاجية، وخلق موارد دولارية جديدة وتقليل عجز الموازنة وترشيد الإنفاق العام.واختتم النائب عمرو القماطى، أن تقرير وكالة فيتش يعكس وجود قدرة مالية للاقتصاد المصرى على سداد مستحقات الديون السيادية المستحقة فى الفترة القادمة، وشهادة حقيقية بقوة الاقتصاد الوطنى المصرى فى مواجهة مختلف الأزمات.
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US election: It’s voting day – What polls say; what Harris, Trump are up to | US Election 2024 News
On the eve of Election Day in the United States, presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris blitzed through battleground states while trying to drive home key promises to supporters and voters still on the fence.
Vice President Harris zoned in on cities across Pennsylvania while former President Trump made stops in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
The Democratic candidate was joined by pop culture figures including Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey, while Trump called to stage his sons and former Fox News host Megyn Kelly, with whom he once had a contentious relationship.
What are the latest updates from the polls?
The race continues to remain tight according to the latest polls, with key swing states presenting narrow leads for both candidates.
According to FiveThirtyEight’s daily tracker, Harris has a 1.2-point lead over Trump nationally, a margin that has remained fairly static in recent days, though it has shrunk compared with a month ago.
In swing states, Harris has a one-point advantage in Michigan and Wisconsin, according to FiveThirtyEight.
Meanwhile, Trump’s lead in Georgia and North Carolina has shrivelled to under one point, while he is ahead by 2.2 points in Arizona.
In Pennsylvania and Nevada, less than half a point separates the two: Harris has sneaked ahead in the former, though only marginally, after trailing Trump narrowly for the past two weeks; while the Republican candidate is barely ahead in Nevada.
Yet, the gap between the two candidates remains within the margin of error of polls in all seven swing states.
Pennsylvania has 19 Electoral College votes, the most among the battleground states, while Nevada has the fewest – six.
Still, Al Jazeera correspondent John Holman said that Nevada could prove to be crucial because of how close the race is. Key election issues resonate strongly here, with Nevada facing one of the highest unemployment rates and costs of living in the US.
More than 82 million Americans have already voted this year, according to a tally by the Election Lab at the University of Florida. The figure represents more than half of the total votes cast in the 2020 presidential election.
What was Kamala Harris up to on Monday?
Harris spent the final day campaigning in Pennsylvania.
The Democratic candidate started off with an event in Scranton, the hometown of President Joe Biden. She continued touting a message of unity while stating that the country is ready to move on from the Trump era.
Between rallies, Harris stopped by the Old San Juan Cafe, a Puerto Rican restaurant in Reading, Pennsylvania, trying to woo a community that has a large electoral presence in the state and that has come into focus after a comedian made racist comments about the US territory at a Trump event recently.
In the afternoon, Harris made her way to the steel city of Pittsburgh where she pledged to sign into law a national reproductive rights bill if passed by Congress.
Harris capped off the day with a big rally in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which featured music stars Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin, as well as influential media personality Oprah Winfrey.
Harris speaks during a campaign rally at Carrie Blast Furnaces in Pittsburgh [Gene J Puskar/AP Photo} What was Donald Trump up to on Monday?
Donald Trump continued his campaign with a whirlwind tour through North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
In his first stop at Raleigh, North Carolina, the Republican candidate claimed a decisive advantage in the presidential race, which he said was “ours to lose”.
Trump went on to attack Harris on crime and immigration, arguing that “you’ll have open borders the very first day” if she is elected.
The stop marked Trump’s third consecutive day in the state while Al Jazeera’s Phil Lavelle reported an unusually low turnout in Raleigh, describing the venue as “only half full”, with empty seats visible around the edges.
Trump wraps up a campaign rally at JS Dorton Arena in Raleigh, North Caroline [Evan Vucci/AP] Later, Trump went to Reading, Pennsylvania, where he again suggested that he would carry out mass deportations by invoking an antiquated law, and to get Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighters to battle migrants.
Trump said he told UFC CEO Dana White – a backer of the former president – to set up a league. “At the end, I want the migrant to go against the champion, and I think the migrant might actually win, that’s how nasty some of these guys are,” Trump said. “But I don’t know, I doubt that,” he added, trailing off.
He also reiterated unfounded election fraud claims.
Trump also said Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, who could siphon votes from Democrats in some swing states, particularly those outraged by the war in Gaza, “may be my favourite politician”.
He ended his day in Grand Rapids, Michigan with a final appeal to voters.
Trump, Donald Trump Jr and Michael Boulos listen as Eric Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Reading, Pennsylvania [Chris Szagola/AP Photo] What’s next for the Harris and Trump campaigns?
Hailing from California, Harris has voted absentee by mail. Her home state, which carries 54 Electoral College votes, is anticipated to vote Democratic this year, continuing a trend that has lasted for the past 36 years.
According to the NPR radio network, Harris will host a watch party at her alma mater, Howard University, in Washington, DC. The District of Columbia, with its three Electoral votes, is expected to support the Democratic candidate, consistent with its historical backing in every presidential election.
Meanwhile, Trump’s campaign announced plans last week to host an election watch party at the Palm Beach Convention Center instead of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach.
Despite previously indicating he would vote early, Trump has decided to cast his ballot in Florida on Election Day. Throughout this election cycle, he has encouraged Americans to vote early, even while expressing doubts about the integrity of the electoral process.
Florida, with its 30 Electoral votes, was for many years a swing state, won by former President Barack Obama twice and by Trump in 2016 and 2020. This year, however, Trump is favoured to secure a comfortable victory in the state.
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First-term Democrat tries to hold on in Washington state district won by Trump in 2020
SEATTLE (AP) — Among the nation’s most closely watched races is a rematch in southwestern Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, where first-term Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is defending her seat against Republican Joe Kent, a former Green Beret who has called for the impeachment of President Joe Biden.
Other campaigns of note in the state include the 8th Congressional District, where Democratic Rep. Kim Schrier is seeking a fourth term, and the 4th Congressional District in central Washington. There’s no danger of that seat flipping parties, but the incumbent there is Rep. Dan Newhouse, one of two remaining House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump. He faces a challenge from the right in Jerrod Sessler, a Navy veteran.
Here’s a look at Washington’s liveliest congressional races:
3rd Congressional District
Gluesenkamp Perez, who owns an auto-repair shop with her husband, came out of nowhere two years ago to win a seat that hadn’t been in Democratic hands for over a decade. She beat the Trump-endorsed Kent by fewer than 3,000 votes out of nearly 320,000 cast.
Her predecessor, moderate Republican Jaime Herrera Beutler, held office for six terms but failed to survive the 2022 primary after voting to impeach Trump over the Jan. 6 insurrection. The district narrowly went for Trump in 2020, making it a crucial target for both parties this year.
The race gained additional attention last week when an arson attack struck a ballot box in Vancouver — the district’s biggest city — scorching hundreds of ballots. Another ballot box was hit across the Columbia River in Portland, Oregon. People who cast their votes in the targeted Vancouver drop box were urged to contact the county auditor’s office to receive replacement ballots.
During her tenure Gluesenkamp Perez has balanced progressive policies with some measures popular with Republicans, including securing the U.S.-Mexico border — something she criticizes Biden for failing to do — and introducing a constitutional amendment to force presidents to balance the budget.
She supports abortion access and has hammered Kent, who previously has said he supported a national abortion ban, for changing his position after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Kent now says abortion laws should be left up to the states.
Gluesenkamp Perez supports policies to counter climate change, but also speaks openly about being a gun owner. A top priority is pushing a “right to repair” bill that would help people get equipment fixed without having to pay exorbitant prices to the original manufacturer.
Kent is a former Green Beret who served 11 combat deployments before joining the CIA. His wife, Shannon, a Navy cryptologist, was killed by a suicide bomber in 2019 while fighting the Islamic State group in Syria, leaving him to raise their two young sons alone. Kent remarried last year.
His last campaign raised questions about his ties to white nationalists after he hired a Proud Boy as a consultant and, during a fundraiser, lavished praise on Joey Gibson, the founder of the Christian nationalist group Patriot Prayer. Kent said he disavows white nationalism.
He has cited inflation and illegal immigration as top concerns.
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Kent and Gluesenkamp Perez disagree on a major local issue: the replacement of a major bridge across the Columbia River between Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington. Gluesenkamp Perez supports plans to replace the existing bridge. Kent has argued that a separate new bridge should be built while the old one is maintained. Plans for the replacement bridge would have “light rail that dumps downtown Portland’s problems into downtown Vancouver,” Kent said.
4th Congressional District
Newhouse’s bid for a sixth term is running up against Sessler, who was one of two Trump-endorsed candidates in the August primary. Together, Sessler and Tiffany Smiley took more than 52% of the vote — spelling trouble for the incumbent.
Newhouse is endorsed by the NRA and Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, and he has mostly steered clear of the subject of Trump. He’s instead focused on agriculture and border security in a state with millions of acres of pastures, orchards and cereal grain lands where immigrant labor is extremely important.
Sessler’s positions are in lockstep with Trump. He says he will fight for strong national security measures, including “an impenetrable border”; work to dismantle regulations imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency and other administrative agencies; and encourage tariffs and other sanctions on China.
“China’s obsession with global power, combined with its atheistic mindset, which removes the morality component, makes it a dangerous adversary,” Sessler said in one of many video statements about issues posted to his campaign website.
8th Congressional District
The 8th District, a mix of wealthy Seattle exurbs and central Washington farmland, had always been held by the GOP before incumbent Democratic Rep. Kim Schrier, a pediatrician, took office in 2019. She has survived a series of somewhat close races since then, taking about 52% or 53% of the vote.
Schrier combines progressive stances, such as protecting abortion rights, with an emphasis on securing highway money or funding for specialty crop research facilities. The Washington Farm Bureau endorsed her this year.
Schrier’s opponent is Carmen Goers, a commercial banker who says she is running to tamp down inflation, stop further regulation of American businesses, support law enforcement and cut back on crime. She also promised to “go to war with the Department of Education,” saying that instead of learning reading, writing and math, children are being “caught in the culture wars of the progressive left.”
Goers took 45% of the vote in the August top-two primary, compared to about 50% for Schrier. Two other Democrats combined for close to 5%.
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Trials, drop-outs and assassination attempts: 15 moments that defined the US election campaign | US elections 2024
1. The challengers
The hard-right Florida governor Ron DeSantis was widely seen as the most probable Republican candidate to prevent former president Donald Trump from becoming the party’s nominee for a third consecutive election. However, in January, despite being backed by the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, DeSantis ends his flailing campaign – and eventually endorses Trump, whose team had smeared him as “Pudding Fingers” owing to his alleged eating habits. Running almost as an incumbent, Trump’s last serious challenger ends up being the former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, who, against all expectations, takes on the mantle of the anti-Trump vote. Casting doubt on Trump’s mental fitness and his loyalty to the US constitution, the former UN ambassador garners significant support – and perseveres until Super Tuesday in March, when she finally stands aside, leaving Trump as the last major candidate standing for the 2024 Republican nomination.
Nikki Haley (left) and Ron DeSantis (right) failed to prevent Trump from becoming the Republican nominee for a third time. Composite: Bloomberg, Getty Images, Reuters, EPA
2. The president
In the annals of American politics, incumbent presidents seeking re-election typically enjoy a significant edge over their challengers. However, Joe Biden – the country’s oldest president – bucks the trend as his meandering remarks, frequent misspeaking of names and halting speech raise concerns that he might just be too old to take on Trump again. Nevertheless, essentially unopposed, the 46th president of the US runs the board in the Democratic primaries and is named the party’s candidate for 2024, while vowing that, despite his advancing years, he remains the most capable contender to defeat Trump once again.
Joe Biden waves to supporters after speaking at a campaign event in March. Photograph: Brynn Anderson/AP
3. The trial
The first real jolt of the election campaign arrives on 30 May, when a jury of 12 New Yorkers makes Trump the first ex-president in American history to become a convicted felon. They find him guilty of committing a crime – 34 of them, in fact – when he falsified business records to disguise $130,000 (£100,000) in hush-money payments to the porn star Stormy Daniels, to hide the scandal from American voters on the eve of the 2016 election. It is far from Trump’s only legal woe: at various times he has faced more than 90 criminal counts, including racketeering charges in Georgia for a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results, where he marked another milestone: the first mugshot of an American president. (That case itself later takes a dramatic turn when the district attorney, Fani Willis, is revealed to have had an affair with a prosecutor she hired, and the case remains on hold while a judge considers whether to disqualify her.) Separately, in February, a federal judge orders Trump to pay $83.3m to the writer E Jean Carroll, who had sued for defamation after Trump publicly disputed that he had sexually assaulted her – an accusation the judge ruled was “substantially true”. Many of the other cases remain in limbo while Trump pursues his well worn legal tactic: delay, delay, delay.
Donald Trump’s mugshot released by the Fulton County sheriff’s office. Photograph: Fulton County sheriff’s office/Reuters
4. The debate
Biden’s performance in the opening presidential debate against Trump on 27 June in Atlanta is perhaps one of the worst in American history. Shaky, raspy-voiced and slack-jawed, his disastrous showing is punctuated by repeated stumbles over words, uncomfortable pauses and at least one point where he trails off before claiming: “We finally beat Medicare.” Top Democratic figures and donors panic, while recriminations swirl about the role of his campaign and of the media in failing to adequately account for his apparently declining mental fitness. The drum beat for Biden, 81, to step aside becomes increasingly relentless, as Democratic strategists finally join average voters in questioning whether the party might yet swap him out for a younger standard bearer to face off against Trump.
Trump and Biden during the first presidential debate in June, when the president’s poor performance shocked Democrats. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP
5. The immunity ruling
On 1 July, the supreme court drops a bombshell of its own: it rules that Trump is at least partly immune from criminal prosecution for anything he did in his “official capacity” as president. The decision, a major victory for Trump, destroys the likelihood of a criminal trial for Trump over trying to subvert the 2020 election occurring before the new election in November 2024. It is also the latest example of what most observers agree is the rightwing capture of the supreme court that Trump himself made possible by appointing three arch-conservative judges. Having already overturned Roe v Wade – a monumental victory for the anti-abortion movement, for which Trump proudly claims credit, that made abortion a huge issue in the 2022 midterms and now the 2024 election – the conservatives had caused even more of a furore in May when photos proved an upside down flag flew outside the home of Justice Samuel Alito, a symbol of support for Trump’s “Stop the Steal” movement that was prominent at the 6 January riot. Since the immunity ruling, the special counsel Jack Smith has hit back, filing a new indictment with more streamlined allegations; Trump in return has promised to fire Smith “within two seconds” if he wins re-election.
6. The shooting
On 13 July, during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Trump is shot and wounded in his upper right ear by Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, who fires eight bullets with an AR-15-style rifle from the rooftop of a nearby building. As security agents cover the president, he stands with a raised fist and shouts: “Fight, fight, fight”, in what becomes an instantly iconic photograph and moment. The shooting claims the life of one attender and two others are left in critical condition; Crooks is killed by security agents. Just nine weeks later, on 15 September, Trump is allegedly the target of a second aspiring assassin at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, where Secret Service agents find Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, hiding in the bushes with a rifle. As well as setting off a crisis in the Secret Service, the events give Trump a rallying cry for his re-election effort: he appears at the Republican national convention days after the Butler shooting wearing an ear bandage, to a rapturous welcome.
Suspected shooter killed after Donald Trump assassination attempt – video report
7. The withdrawal
At 1.46pm on 21 July, Biden announces he will no longer seek re-election – ending weeks of fevered speculation and mounting pressure from lawmakers, donors, activists and voters terrified of his inability to beat Trump. A key intervention comes from the actor and Democratic fundraiser George Clooney: “It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fundraiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010,” he writes. Biden’s longtime political ally and ex-House speaker Nancy Pelosi also plays a crucial role in limiting the president’s legacy to one term in what she says is a “cold calculation” for the sake of the country – and later tells the Guardian she has not spoken to her old friend since.
8. The coronation
Taking the stage in Chicago on 23 August to a thunderous standing ovation, the vice-president, Kamala Harris, with the full-throated support of Biden, officially accepts the Democratic presidential nomination, making her the first Black woman to lead a major party ticket. Harris declares the election an opportunity for the country to “chart a new way forward” and encourages voters to write the “next great chapter in the most extraordinary story ever told”. The impact is immediate and dramatic: she goes on to raise more than $1bn in less than three months, a record, and draws boisterous crowds to energetic rallies where she focuses on reproductive rights, economic help for the middle class and safeguarding US democracy.
Kamala Harris accepts Democratic nomination, urges Americans to ‘fight for this country’ – video
9. The wildcard
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the scion of the most famous Democratic family whose independent campaign for president had at times reached as high as 10% in national polling, drops out. Kennedy had faced a string of scandals, including accusations he had assaulted a former babysitter. He also admitted that, yes, it was him who dumped a bear carcass in Central Park in a case that had mystified New Yorkers a decade earlier. After dropping out, the environmental campaigner turned vaccine skeptic then plays both sides – reportedly making overtures to Harris in August to discuss endorsing her in exchange for a job, then opting to back Trump, who has allegedly offered Kennedy control over the health agencies. Among third-party candidates still running are the environmentalist Jill Stein, who also stood as the Green party’s candidate in 2012 and 2016, the progressive activist Cornel West and Chase Oliver of the Libertarian party.
10. The running mates
In July, the Ohio senator JD Vance formally accepts Trump’s offer to run as his vice-presidential nominee – a dramatic change of position for Vance, the author of the hit memoir Hillbilly Elegy who once described himself as a “never Trumper” and called his new boss “America’s Hitler”. But if there is one quote for which JD Vance will be remembered in history, it is his controversial definition of leading Democrats: “A bunch of childless cat ladies,” he told the Fox News host Tucker Carlson in 2021. On the other side of the aisle, Harris chooses the Minnesota governor Tim Walz, a native of rural Nebraska who was a teacher and high school football coach and served in the National Guard for 24 years before entering politics. Walz captures national attention with a surprisingly effective takedown of Republicans: “These guys are just weird.”
The VP picks: Tim Walz (left) and JD Vance. Photograph: AP
11. The billionaire
The wealthiest man on the planet formally declares what most people had suspected after he bought Twitter and rebranded it as the more extreme X: he is a fully fledged cheerleader for Trump. First endorsing Trump after the assassination attempt, and then dancing and leaping on stage at a Trump rally, the boss of Tesla, Space X and several other companies takes to the newest of his many jobs with a gusto that shames even the most politically active billionaires. Musk becomes everything from a Trump policy adviser to a mega-donor and (through his America Pac campaign group) a leading figure in the Republican “ground game”, its effort to get voters to the polls. In October, he also begins giving away $1m a day to Pennsylvanians who are registered voters – causing a judge to demand his presence in court for running an “illegal lottery”. To those who ask what’s in it for Musk, observers point to billions in federal contracts and Trump promising him a role in helping to gut regulators.
Elon Musk jumps around on stage at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP
12. The debate 2.0
On 11 September, Harris outperforms Trump in their first debate, appearing to vindicate Biden’s decision to gracefully bow out and marking a dramatic change in fortune as she takes a slight polling lead over Trump – though the polls essentially remain tied for the remainder of the race. However, it isn’t Harris’s victory that most attracts headlines from the debate, but the former president’s claim about immigrants from Haiti: “In Springfield, they are eating the dogs,” Trump said. “They are eating the cats. They are eating the pets of the people that live there.” Quickly immortalised in a viral song, the statement – an obvious and quickly debunked lie – appears at first to hurt the Republicans, but far from repudiating it Trump and Vance begin repeating it as part of an anti-immigrant focus that the campaign embraces as its driving principle, including a promise to carry out the largest mass deportation in US history.
Harris v Trump: highlights of the presidential debate – video
13. The celebs
If Trump can rely on the support of the world’s richest man, Harris can count on that of its biggest-selling recording artist. In a post on Instagram minutes after the debate, Taylor Swift endorses Harris, encouraging her fans to register to vote and signing it “Childless Cat Lady”, a reference to Vance’s slur. She is hardly alone: Charli xcx had already set off a series of pro-Harris internet memes by tweeting “kamala IS brat” – referring to a lifestyle inspired by noughties excess and rave culture, as well as the name of her hit album Brat – and eventually Beyoncé, Eminem (whose hit Lose Yourself was rapped by Barack Obama at a Detroit rally where the superstar told his home city to “use your voice” for Harris) and dozens more popstars back Harris. From actors such as Robert De Niro – who clashes with Trump supporters outside the ex-president’s hush-money trial in New York – and the cast of Marvel’s Avengers movies, or athletes such as LeBron James (“When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me”), most of the highest-profile celebrity endorsements have gone to Harris – though Trump can boast he has Hulk Hogan, Dr Phil and Kid Rock in his camp.
‘Love me some Eminem’: Obama raps on stage at Harris campaign rally – video
14. The rally
Anger and vitriol take centre stage at New York’s Madison Square Garden as Trump and a cabal of his acolytes hold a rally marked by racist comments, coarse insults and threats about immigrants. The rally features nearly 30 speakers, with some of them making a series of racist remarks about Latinos, Black Americans and Jewish citizens. “I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” Tony Hinchcliffe says, among other controversial remarks including singling out a Black man in a remark about watermelons. In the subsequent hours, Democrats, celebrities and Hispanic groups on both sides of the political aisle condemn the comments as “offensive” and “derogatory”, with many voters of Puerto Rican heritage saying they will change their votes to Harris – potentially a key voting bloc in the swing state of Pennsylvania. The event had already drawn comparisons to an infamous Nazi rally held at the arena in 1939, with the Democratic National Committee projecting images on the outside of the building repeating claims from Trump’s former chief of staff that he had “praised Hitler” – and although Vance dismisses the comparison, many note it was only in 2016 that Vance himself had suggested Trump could become “America’s Hitler”.
Donald Trump fills Madison Square Garden with anger, vitriol and racist threats – video report
15. The final pitches
The days leading up to election day are always the most frenzied, and the 2024 race is no exception, with the candidates trading insults and billions of people around the world glued to the latest polls, which do not show a clear lead for either Trump or Harris. With the White House illuminated behind her, Harris draws a crowd of more than 75,000 people in Washington DC, referring to Trump as “another petty tyrant” who had stood in the same spot nearly four years ago and, in a last-gasp effort to cling to power, helped incite the mob that stormed the US Capitol. Meanwhile, Trump continues to smear immigrants and arrives at a rally in a garbage truck, a stunt to attack Democrats. Police chiefs and sheriffs across the country brace for potential violence against election workers, disruptions at polling locations and harassment of voters, while unfounded allegations of voter fraud prompt fears that Trump could, once more, refuse to accept the results if he loses – and this time get millions of Americans to do the same.
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وصل السباق الرئاسي المحتدم في الولايات المتحدة بين المرشح الجمهوري دونالد ترمب ومنافسته الديمقراطية كامالا هاريس، الثلاثاء، خط النهاية مع توجه ملايين الأميركيين لمراكز الاقتراع للاختيار بين مرشحين يقفان على طرفي نقيض.
وألمحت حملة ترمب إلى أنه قد يعلن النصر بنهاية يوم الانتخابات حتى رغم عدم إكمال فرز ملايين مثلماً فعل قبل 4 أعوام. وقال الرئيس السابق مراراً، إن أي هزيمة يُمنى بها “لن تحدث إلا نتيجة تزوير واسع”، مكرراً بذلك ادعاءات أطلقها عام 2020.
لكنه عاد، الثلاثاء، وأكد أنه “سيقر بخسارة الانتخابات حال كانت نزيهة”، مشيراً إلى أنه “واثق جداً” من الفوز، وأعرب عن إحباطه من أن إعلان النتيجة “قد يستغرق وقتاً”.
نهاية السباق الرئاسي
النتائج النهائية التي تحسم الفائز لن تعلن قبل أيام إذا جاء الفارق بين الأصوات ضئيلاً في ولايات محورية وحاسمة كما هو متوقع.
وأظهرت استطلاعات الرأي في الأيام الأخيرة من الحملة الانتخابية تقارب المرشحين بشدة في 7 ولايات متأرجحة ستحدد في الأغلب الفائز وهي أريزونا وجورجيا وميشيجان ونيفادا ونورث كارولينا وبنسلفانيا وويسكنسون.
وسيترقب الناخبون الأميركيون مع ظهور النتائج الأولية ليلة الثلاثاء، ليس من سيفوز بالسابق المنتظر منذ أشهر لكن مدى احتدام المعركة الانتخابية، وكم من الوقت قد تستغرقه عملية فرز الأصوات لتحديد الفائز، بحسب صحيفة “نيويورك تايمز“.
وستكون جورجيا أول ولاية متأرجحة تغلق مراكز الاقتراع، وذلك عند الساعة 7 مساءً بالتوقيت الشرقي للولايات المتحدة، تليها ولاية نورث كارولاينا، وذلك في تمام الساعة 7:30 مساء.
ورجحت “نيويورك تايمز”، أن يتم فرز أغلب الأصوات في كلتا الولايتين، والإعلان عن النتائج وذلك عند منتصف ليل الثلاثاء.
أما في بنسلفانيا، التي سعى الجمهوريون والديمقراطيون بشدة خلال الأشهر الأخيرة للفوز بها، ستغلق مراكز الاقتراع عند الساعة 8 مساءً بالتوقيت الشرقي، بحسب الصحيفة الأميركية التي أشارت إلى أنه نظراً لعدم السماح ببدء فرز أصوات بطاقات الاقتراع المرسلة عبر بالبريد حتى يوم الانتخابات، فمن المتوقع أن يستمر الفرز حتى صباح الأربعاء.
وستغلق مراكز الاقتراع في ولايتي ميشيجان ويسكنسون عند قرابة الساعة 9 مساءً، ولكن قد تستمر عملية الفرز لوقت متأخر من ليل الثلاثاء.
أفضل المسارات لكلا المرشحين
للوصول إلى البيت الأبيض، يتعين على ترمب وهاريس الحصول على 270 من أصوات المجمع الانتخابي الذي يتكون من 538 صوتاً، موزعة على الولايات الخمسين، ومقاطعة واشنطن (العاصمة واشنطن DC).
واعتبرت صحيفة “نيويورك تايمز”، أن أفضل مسار للمرشح الجمهوري للوصول للمكتب البيضاوي هو الفوز بولاية بنسلفانيا وجورجيا ونورث كارولاينا.
أما هاريس فستكون بحاجة إلى ولايات الجدار الأزرق الثلاث في الغرب الأوسط وهي ميشيجان، وبنسلفانيا، وويسكونسن.
وكانت هذه الولايات تقليدياً، تميل لصالح الديمقراطيين، الذين فازوا بها في 7 من آخر 8 انتخابات رئاسية منذ عام 1992، باستثناء 2016 عندما حقق ترمب فوزاً مفاجئاً فيها على منافسته الديمقراطية هيلاري كلينتون.
واستعاد الرئيس جو بايدن هذه الولايات في 2020، وفي حالة حفاظ هاريس عليها تحصل على 44 صوتاً، “ميشيجان 15 صوت، بنسلفانيا 19، وويسكنسون 10″، وهي عدد الأصوات التي تحتاجها بالضبط، لإضافتها إلى الـ226 صوتاً من الولايات الديمقراطية، حتى يصبح المجموع 270 صوتاً.
ومع اتجاه حملة ترمب إلى إعلان النصر قبل إكمال عملية فرز ملايين الأصوات، توقعت “نيويورك تايمز” أن يزيد ذلك من احتمالات تصاعد الخلافات بشأن الانتخابات، وخلق ضغوط إضافية على النظام.
وأعلن ترمب فوزه مبكراً عام 2020 انتصاره في الانتخابات، إذ أعلن فوزه في الثانية صباح ليلة الانتخابات، ما أثار شكوك مناصريه من فوز بايدن ومن النظام الانتخابي نفسه، الأمر الذي أشعل حركة انتهت بالهجوم على مبنى الكابيتول في 6 يناير 2021.
فجوة بين الجنسين
قال مسؤولون في حملة ترمب، إنهم يراقبون نتائج التصويت المبكر التي تظهر زيادة المشاركة بين النساء مقابل الرجال. ولهذا المؤشر أهمية بالنظر إلى أن هاريس تقدمت على ترمب بنسبة 50 إلى 38% بين الناخبات المسجلات، وفقاً لاستطلاع أجرته “رويترز/إبسوس” في أكتوبر، بينما تقدم ترمب بين الرجال بنسبة 48 إلى 41%.
وأدلى أكثر من 80 مليون ناخب بأصواتهم بالفعل في التصويت المبكر، لكن الساعات المقبلة ستحدد ما إذا كانت حملة هاريس أو ترمب صاحبة الأداء الأفضل في حث المؤيدين على التوجه إلى مراكز الاقتراع للإدلاء بأصواتهم.
وحطم الناخبون، من الديمقراطيين والجمهوريين، أرقاماً قياسية عمرها قرن من الزمان في آخر انتخابين للرئاسة، ما يشير إلى الحماس التي يثيرها ترمب في تحرك الحزبين.
ولدى حملة ترمب عملية خاصة بها لحشد الأصوات، لكنها أوكلت فعلياً معظم العمل إلى مجموعة العمل السياسي الداعمة للرئيس السابق والتي يمكنها جمع وإنفاق مبالغ غير محدودة من المال.
وركزت الحملة بشكل أكبر على الاتصال بالناخبين الذين لا يذهبون غالباً إلى صناديق الاقتراع، بدلاً من مناشدة الناخبين الذين يمكنهم التحول إلى أي من الجانبين.
والكثيرون في هذه الفئة من أنصار ترمب، لكنهم ليسوا ناخبين يمكن الاعتماد عليهم عادة.
ويقول ترمب وفريقه إنهم، بعد انتقاء الناخبين الذين يريدون الاتصال بهم، يرسلون مندوبين إلى الأماكن التي تحدث فرقاً، ويتخذون خيارات ذكية في الإنفاق.