WashingtonNext Tuesday’s election will be won by a single margin. For a woman’s body, specifically. Beneath the conventional layer of campaigning on immigration, taxes or the cost of living, at the bottom of the great American political debate remains the same anthropological question as everywhere else: who rules in women’s sexual and reproductive health, which is as much as discussing the top-down model of society.
In Wisconsin on Thursday, Trump told the crowd, “Whether women like it or not, I’m going to protect them.” Trump referred to protecting women “from being assaulted, raped and killed by imported criminal immigrants” by Biden-Harris, adding: “Is there any woman in this stadium who would not want to be protected by the president?” The “whether they like it or not” has quickly been turned by the Democrats into the ultimate test of the character’s sexist psychology, as perceptible to the naked eye as the pumpkin makeup that covers his face.
The United States remains stuck in the Roe versus Wade of 1973, when the Supreme Court established that the Constitution protected the right to abortion. The tiktokers who work for the Democrats have fished out the “Bros versus Roe”, street polls in which a reporter asks two questions to a man or a group of men. First: “How many days in a month can a woman get pregnant?” Most people don’t have the slightest idea. And the second question is whether they plan to vote on Tuesday. And let people draw their own conclusions. The Bros who will decide for you, woman, don’t know everything about your cycle.
But Trump can say it all because he knows how to say it all. The magnetism of the character never disappoints: Trump is always Trump. Obscene, threatening, insulting. Any other candidate who insulted or threatened like he did would sound like an oil-soaked bread-and-butter. Trump has managed to get people glued to the screen when he comes out, even if it’s to load up on arguments against him.
Christy Bowe knows him. He has been a photojournalist for various media covering the White House since the Clintons. He has spoken to all the presidents. Trump says that he was “friendly and polite” with her and that he “has always behaved in a very spontaneous way, especially when he took her for press conferences in the gardens, before boarding Marine One” . But don’t be fooled, of course:
-“I was in the assault on the Capitol on January 6. Trump’s voice rang through the speakers of all the cellphones. I was so scared that I hid the accreditation. I was suffering for my safety, and it was surreal, because we were all Americans there. The Proud Boys shouted “Let’s hang Mike Pence!” You could feel the violence in the atmosphere. I am convinced that everything was absolutely planned”.
-Have you ever spoken to Harris?
– No, I cover the presidents and I have always seen her from a distance. It’s that Biden has been the president who has kept the most distance from photographers. They didn’t let us enter the Oval Office even once to take any day-to-day photos, which are different from the photos taken when he has a visit. And Melania is very hot”.
-Who will win?
-It is arm in arm and everything can change in the next five minutes.
Connie Morella has heard us. She is 93 years old, she was a Republican congresswoman for Maryland and the United States ambassador to the OECD. Before I can say anything, she tells me that her surname (in fact, her husband’s) is from a town in the flood zone of Valencia, and offers my condolences. I ask him how Trump is holding up so well in the polls. “I would also like to know. I guess there are people who think Trump will be better for their pockets. Inflation has destroyed many family economies.”
Back to the women. In an African-American neighborhood, Sefrina Gordon tells me that Trump will win, and then lowers her voice “because here, people are very sensitive”, and tells me that “the construction of the candidate has been so correct that it will not work. there is one hype artificial around the Kamala. They improvised the story that she would be an Obama 2, black and working-class like him, but a woman, and I tell her that there are a lot of people who don’t buy that.”
– But don’t you think that Trump uses violent and sexist language?
-Trump says the things that others don’t want to say and that leftist voters don’t want to hear.
There is one that says Harris is sure to win. He is the veteran political consultant James Carville, author of the phrase that gave Clinton the victory over Bush Sr.: “It’s the economy, stupid!” He went on the pro-Democratic channel MSNBC and told Joe Scarborough that Harris will win because he has “more money, more energy, more party unity and better advisers than Trump.”
Either she’s a great actress or she has a lot of confidence in herself, the thing is, Harris has been seen more smiling and calmer than Trump this week. “It’s that Trump plays more than Harris. If the president does not come out, his legal situation will be very complicated”, Connie Morella tells me, but both are nervous because this is neck and neckarm in arm.
“I will protect women whether they like it or not.” Watergate reporter Bob Woodward once asked Trump what the president’s job is. And Trump replied: “Protecting the people”. And Woodward concludes in his book Guerra: “It’s a good answer, but Trump didn’t protect people during covid. Trump is not only the wrong man for the presidency, he is unfit to lead the country. Trump ruled with fear and anger. With indifference about the national interest”. Well, for Tuesday, Harris and the big bro Trump are neck and neck.
