Headlines: Biden goes on the offensive, Trump is on the defensive
Trump-Pence and Biden-Harris signs are placed outside the lawn of a library in Miami, Florida on October 27, 2020. CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP
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The electoral campaign is entering its home stretch, with meetings that follow one another.
Their choice says a lot about the strategy of the two candidates.
This is an analysis to read in the
Washington Post
.
Looking closely at the electoral agenda of the two candidates, the newspaper believes that Donald Trump has chosen a defensive strategy.
With a few exceptions, it concentrates its meetings in the States which are more or less acquired to it.
As if his team had given up on the possibility of expanding the electorate.
The
Washington Post
quotes North Carolina, which the outgoing president has visited seven times since the Republican convention last August.
It is a state that should not cause him too much trouble, notes a political scientist interviewed by the newspaper.
For his part, Joe Biden, with his advantage in the polls, chose a more offensive approach.
This is why he will travel to Iowa at the weekend, a state that his rival won in 2016 with a 10-point lead.
This
Washington Post
analysis
is shared by The
New York Times
, which sums up the two strategies in one sentence: as Joe Biden tries to broaden his support, Donald Trump is speaking exclusively to his electoral base.
New evening of protests in Philadelphia
The rally in honor of Walter Wallace Junior, a 27-year-old African American killed by police last Monday, began peacefully, local newspaper
The Inquirer
writes
.
The police intervened when about 300 people started walking towards a police station, the daily said.
The looting then took place in the northern part of the city, a Walmart supermarket was among others targeted.
The anger of the inhabitants was triggered Monday after the death of the young Walter Wallace Junior, shot dead by two police officers in the middle of the street as evidenced by a video which has since been circulating on social networks.
The man who was armed with a knife suffered from bipolar disorder, a disability known to police, according to
The Inquirer
.
“
What is particularly shocking,
”
says an African American rights activist, is that everyone saw how Walter Wallace Jr. was killed in front of his mother.
Another woman who took part in the protest said she feared her son, also African-American and suffering from bipolar disorder, could also be killed by police.
Another participant cautioned against political exploitation of this drama, adding:
"
Either way, whether it's Biden or other candidates, no one is looking after us
."
Cubans soon deprived of Western Union
The American money transfer group will close its offices in Cuba in a month, following new sanctions imposed by Washington.
The US government has banned Western Union from working with Fincimex, the military-owned Cuban finance company.
In a statement published on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Fincimex criticizes the decision which, I quote, underlines "
the cynicism, the contempt of the Cuban people and the opportunism of the American government
".
The sanction will come into force on November 27.
Contacted by the Cuban news site
14ymedio
, one of the more than 400 Western Union agencies explains that it has not yet received specific instructions and that the office will remain operational until the end of November.
Money sent via Western Union by relatives living abroad is a very important source of income for Cuban families.
Several billion dollars thus arrive in Cuba every year, through a system managed by the Cuban authorities.
According to an expert speaking on the
14ymedio
website
, the Cuban government is using part of this money for real estate projects on the island.
And Emilio Morales of Havana Consulting Group added:
“
How to explain that the military built 57 hotels in two years.
Where does the money for these investments come from if tourism generates barely 2.4 billion dollars? ...
”.
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