Two weeks before the American presidential election, in a campaign with a more virulent tone every day, Kamala Harris redoubled her efforts on Monday to seduce moderate conservatives at a time when the dynamic seemed to be turning slightly in favor of her Republican rival.
The vice-president is making a whirlwind tour of three key states in the north of the country – Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin – in the company of former Republican parliamentarian Liz Cheney, a fierce opponent of Donald Trump.
For his part, the former president is in North Carolina, another hotly contested state in the election, hard hit by a hurricane at the end of September and where his supporters are spreading false information about government aid.

The American “swing states”: Pennsylvania / Jonathan WALTER, Olivia BUGAULT, Sabrina BLANCHARD / AFP
The target of the day for Kamala Harris: residential suburbs where she sought to court moderate Republican voters, who may have been burned by some of Donald Trump’s excesses.
In Pennsylvania, speaking of his desire to “turn the page”she estimated that the Republican’s domination of American politics since his surprise election in 2016 had led Americans to “turn against each other” and had “exhausted” the country.
Before warning voters, in Wisconsin: “Donald Trump is an unserious man, but the consequences of his return to power would be extremely serious”.
An argument supported by Liz Cheney who explained that her support for the vice-president had not been a difficult choice, as a political leader but also as a mother.
“If you can’t see yourself entrusting your children to someone, you shouldn’t make them the president of the United States”she said.
Neck-to-neck polls
The Democrats are throwing all their strength into the battle to support their candidate who has been in the running for only three months against Donald Trump who has been in the campaign for two years.
According to official figures released Monday, Kamala Harris’ campaign team spent $270 million in September compared to only $78 million for the Trump camp.
The vice-president, 60 years old as of Sunday, has collected more than a billion dollars since entering the campaign in July, after the withdrawal of President Joe Biden, according to the New York Times, unheard of for a quarter of campaign.
But this financial advantage struggles to translate into electoral capital.
If we are to believe the polls, the two candidates remain neck and neck but some recent surveys seem to show a slight lead, although still within the margin of error, in favor of Donald Trump.
Verbal violence
The Republican candidate, 78, said Monday that the Democrat was not “qualified to present”even judging that she was “a threat to democracy”. From Greenville, North Carolina, he again focused on the issue of immigration, “problem number 1”, “even in front of the economy” according to him.
Giving free rein to his xenophobic rhetoric, he promised that with his victory, “the invasion of migrants will end and the restoration of the country will begin”.
“I will save every American city that has been invaded and conquered, and we will put these vicious, bloodthirsty criminals in prison or expel them from our country”he declared.
In recent days, the Republican candidate has also stepped up his verbal violence against his rival, calling her a “shit vice president”.
“He’s not a very intelligent person.”he added Tuesday in front of a group of Christian voters.
The vice-president also toughened her tone against Donald Trump, whose behavior “debased” according to her, the presidential function.