As one drives along the 169-mile-long St Croix river, a tributary of the Mississippi that connects Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s home city Minneapolis to the politically fractious swing state of Wisconsin, the motifs announcing support for Kamala Harris are gradually outnumbered by billboards of Donald Trump, illustrating the hard combat the Democrats face in the November 5 election, despite their slender, yet persistent lead in opinion polls.
Economy and border security remain pressing concerns for voters, animated as many of them are with Trump’s nationalist rhetoric relayed in his big rallies and raucous television bytes. According to Trump, the people’s economic hardships, especially the skyrocketing food prices, are a fallout of, among other factors, unwarranted spending on immigrants’ settlements. He has attempted to seize people’s economic frustrations and optimise human tragedies brought about by Hurricane Milton to lend a coat of credibility to his portrayal of the American society beset by “fleeing jobs” and “criminals pouring in” from outside the borders.
“They [Democrats] stole the FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) money, just like they stole it from a bank, so they could give it to their illegal immigrants...,” Trump told a public meeting in Michigan on October 10. Congress allocated $650 million in the 2024 fiscal year to fund a programme that helps state and local governments house migrants, but there is no data to support Trump’s charges that FEMA disaster assistance money was diverted to house immigrants.
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