Monday 4 November 2024

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US election campaign enters home stretch

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As the U.S. presidential election approaches on November 5, with the outcome too close to call according to polls, Kamala Harris issued a call to Americans to put “country above party” and to reject the ambitions “of wannabe dictators.” “For too long, we have been consumed with too much division, chaos and mutual distrust. It can be easy then, to forget a simple truth: it doesn’t have to be this way,” the Democratic candidate said.

Ahead of the vote to decide the next occupant of the White House, we interviewed Rosario Marin, a former U.S. treasurer under George W. Bush who intends now to vote for Harris. "There is no Republican Party anymore. Trump is the party," says Marin, who also casts doubts on the Electoral College: "The system was meant to be fair at the time, but today it is unfair for the democracy that we are. I predict Harris will win by 10 million votes. And yet she may still lose."

Also this week, we interviewed Sean Baker, whose latest film Anora has been creating Oscars buzz after picking up the Palme d'Or in Cannes, took a look at the real life successions unfolding at some of the wealthiest companies in the world, and spoke to Jane Rosenburg, who has spent four decades sketching some of the most famous faces to pass through the U.S. judicial system, from Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán to Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein.

We hope you enjoy this selection of articles from EL PAÍS USA Edition

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