As Election Day in the United States (US) approaches, the big question now is - will America get its first woman president or a second Donald Trump term?
Kamala Devi Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate and the current vice president of the United States since 2021, is a Glass Ceiling Breaker in the US as she is the first woman, the first black American, and the first Asian American to be vice president. She is the highest-ranking female official in the US history.
She has been pushing her candidacy as representative of a ‘new generation of leadership’ and she has been making an appeal to young voters to support her.
Hillary Clinton, who had broken a glass ceiling by becoming the first woman to win a major party nomination for president, hopes that Kamala can finally break the ‘highest, hardest glass ceiling’ in America by becoming the first female president.
Hillary Clinton aimed at the highest glass ceiling, but she became unable to shatter the highest Glass Ceiling in America. Donald Trump won 2016 US election despite less popular votes than Hillary Clinton. This was because of the Electoral College, a system unique to the US where the outcome isn’t decided directly by popular vote.
Voters in the US go to the polls on November 5 to elect their next president. With only three days until US Presidential Election Day, both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris campaigned in the western part of the US, crisscrossing the key swing states of Arizona and Nevada, reports Al-Jazira. Kamala Harris campaigns with Jennifer Lopez, as Donald Trump talks to Tucker Carlson, reports the Guardian.
Kamala topped her night with a performance by Jennifer Lopez in Las Vegas, as she seeks to connect with Latino voters in the final days of the race. On the other hand, Trump appeared with far-right media personality Tucker Carlson in Phoenix, Arizona.
Kamala Devi Harris has been pushing her candidacy as representative of a ‘new generation of leadership’and as she closed her remarks at her star-studded Las Vegas event, she made an appeal to young voters to support her, reports Al-Jazira.
“I see the promise of America in all the young leaders who are here in our voting for the first time,” Kamala told the crowd.
Her voice rising with emotion, she spoke to the immediacy of the issues facing the younger generation and the activism she sees in their ranks.
“I love Gen Z. I love you. And here’s what I love about our young leaders. You guys are rightly impatient. You are rightly impatient for change. You are young leaders who are determined to live free from gun violence, to take on the climate crisis. You intend to shape the world you inherit,” she said.
She further said, “I love that about you because, for you, none of these issues is theoretical. It’s not political. This is your lived experience.”
Kamala Harris left the stage to her campaign anthem, Beyonce’s song Freedom, offering hugs to the night’s performers and her husband, Doug Emhoff.
Meanwhile, Trump gives rambling answers in Carlson interview. Jumping from subject to subject, with little mind for Carlson’s questions, he meandered through his appearance in Glendale, Arizona.
Trump spent time espousing the importance of firing people in his administration, saying he would make sure he appointed better people if he is re-elected. It was an apparent response to the deluge of former officials who have come out against Trump.
He also took time to deride former National Security Adviser John Bolton, as well as Republican Liz Cheney, who has been campaigning with Kamala Harris. Trump called Cheney the ‘repulsive little daughter’ of former Vice President Dick Cheney.
In addition, Trump made baseless accusations against the congressional panel that investigated the riot at the US Capitol on January 6 in 2021. He dubbed the proceedings a ‘cover-up’.
In the often hard-to-follow statements, Trump further attacked prosecutors in Georgia and New York who have indicted him.
AP reports, Donald Trump was set to visit Dearborn, Michigan, the nation’s largest Arab-majority city, on Friday.
Metro Detroit is home to nation’s largest concentration of Arab Americans, with a large chunk of them living in Dearborn. The city, which President Joe Biden won by a 3-to-1 margin, has been roiled by political turmoil, with many upset with the Biden administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war.
While Kamala Harris has been working through surrogates to ease community tensions, Trump’s visit will mark the first by either candidate, according to local leader Osama Siblani.
Earlier this year, Kamal Harris met with the city’s Democratic mayor Abdullah Hammoud though their discussion took place outside Dearborn.
Sam Abbas, the owner of The Great Commoner in Dearborn, told The Associated Press that Trump was set to visit his restaurant.
“We expect some remarks around ending the war and bringing peace to the Middle East,” said Abbas. “I’m not here to get political. I’m not here to tell people which way I’m voting. I am simply here because our family is being slaughtered and we just want to end the war. Stop the bombing.”
Israel invaded Gaza after Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack and last month launched an invasion of Lebanon to suppress Hezbollah. At least 43,000 people have died in Gaza, according to Gaza’s health ministry, which does not distinguish in its death toll between combatants and civilians.
The Trump campaign declined to comment on the visit. It follows Trump’s rally in Michigan last week, when he brought local Muslims up onstage with him. Trump has also received endorsements from two Democratic mayors of Muslim-majority cities.
While many Democratic leaders in the community have not endorsed Kamala Harris, they are still deeply negative toward Trump and say his endorsements don’t reflect a majority of the community. They also remember his call for a “total and complete shutdown” on Muslims entering the country and his travel restrictions on visitors from Muslim-majority countries. And some point out that Trump has suggested he would give Israel even more leeway to attack its rivals in the region.
Even so, Democrats worry that traditionally loyal voters may shift to Trump or third-party candidates like Jill Stein — or skip the top of the ballot altogether. This could prove pivotal in Michigan, a state both parties see as a toss-up.
Abbas said Trump allies had reached out to him several weeks ago about hosting Trump in Dearborn. Before hosting Trump, Abbas said he wanted to see a statement from Trump that he said showed Trump “has the intentions of ending the war and helping us rebuild Lebanon and helping the displaced and the injured.”
That statement came Wednesday, when Trump posted on X that he wanted to “stop the suffering and destruction in Lebanon.”
“I will preserve the equal partnership among all Lebanese communities,” Trump said on X. “Your friends and family in Lebanon deserve to live in peace, prosperity, and harmony with their neighbors, and that can only happen with peace and stability in the Middle East.”
