Ahead of election, what do Latin Americans, Europeans think about Donald Trump, Kamala Harris?
As the world watches the U.S. election unfold, many, especially people in Latin America, believe that Trump is the only option to prevent the decline of American economic power and influence. Joseph Humire, an expert on Latin America and executive director of the think tank Center for a Secure Society, told Fox News Digital that many Latin Americans hope for a Trump victory on Nov. 5. Humire said the Biden administration’s policy toward Latin America has resulted in it being “the worst that I’ve seen.” “The last four years the region has gone into a very difficult direction,” he said. “Food inflation is really high. Organized crime and violence are really high. And, you know, little by little, they’re losing their democratic practices. There’s a huge democratic backsliding happening in the region.” Mexico’s army seizes local police weapons in cartel heartland amid gunfights, violence According to Humire, Latin Americans believe that if elected Vice President Kamala Harris would continue the policies of the Biden administration and thus continue the economic decline and stagnation in the region. On the other hand, Humire said the Latin American populace associates Trump’s presidency with a time when they experienced greater prosperity and that they see him as a sign of hope for better times when the U.S. had greater investment in the region and the economy was not so bleak. These people believe that Trump’s plan to lessen U.S. dependency on China would mean greater U.S. investment in Latin America. “Most of the countries in Latin America are very eager to have investment from the United States,” he explained. “If Kamala Harris wins, then you may have a lot of agnostic attitudes, but you’ll have people say, ‘The United States is pretty much done with.’ On the flip side, if President Trump wins, I think you’ll see a huge reaction in Latin America. I think you’ll see a lot of enthusiasm, not even just from the government leaders, from the people.” He also said that many politicos are closely watching the U.S. election, hoping it will bolster the ambitions of existing conservative, populist movements in South America. As U.S. influence in Latin America has waned, that vacuum has been filled by Russia, China and Iran, which has had a degrading effect on democracy in the region, Humire said. Argentine President Javier Milei serves as an example of a recently arisen populist leader who has said he was inspired by Trump’s success in the U.S. Humire believes that a Trump victory on Election Night could lead to a slate of additional conservative leaders rising across Latin America, especially in countries close to Argentina such as Chile and Colombia. As for the cartels, Humire said a Harris victory would essentially mean business as usual. “If Kamala wins,” he said, “they know they’ll look at that as an extension of President Biden, and they know how to work that. They’ve been pretty successful over the last four years, turning a lot of the policy failures of the Biden administration into profits and success for the transnational criminal organizations. And so, they’ll be more of the same.” Meanwhile, though some believe Trump’s strongman rhetoric projects the type of strength that is needed today, the consensus in Europe and the United Kingdom is that Harris should be the next U.S. president, according to Alan Mendoza, a British political analyst and founder of the Henry Jackson Society. Mendoza told Fox News Digital that “if Europe and the U.K. were voting, Kamala Harris would win by a landslide.” “Donald Trump does not obviously play to the European audience. He’s not trying to win over European hearts and minds,” he said. British invasion: Labour Party to descend on US to help Harris Mendoza said many Europeans are fearful that Trump will cut off all aid to Ukraine and pull the U.S. out of NATO at a time when the Russian threat is looming large over the continent. “We understand the threats. Russia is on the doorstep,” he said. On the other hand, he pointed out that Harris is inexperienced in foreign policy. He said some believe Trump would “restore” a sense of American strength and power that dissipated during the Biden administration. Mendoza said a Trump or Harris administration’s impact on Europe will depend on who they appoint to crucial roles, such as secretary of state. “A lot of this depends on which version of the administrations turn up,” he said. “It’s clearly going to be a gamble either way as far as Europe is concerned.” Beyond that, Mendoza said Trump’s persona does not play well with European sensibilities. Whether justified or not, Mendoza said that Europeans have an impression, reinforced by European media coverage, that Trump is anti-democratic, isolationist and ultraconservative on social issues such as abortion. “It was put very well by the historian Niall Ferguson fairly recently who said, if your main concern is the American empire, i.e., America’s power overseas, you’re going to back Trump, and if your main concern is the American republic, i.e., democracy at home, you might well vote for Kamala Harris,” he said. Regardless of who they support, like most Americans, Mendoza said Europeans will be watching as the election results pour in. “The U.S. election is being watched all around the world,” he said. “And, of course, Europe and the U.K. are no different in this. It is the big one. Even in this year of many elections, everyone understands the importance of the American election.” Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
GOP candidate delivers blistering closing message as most expensive Senate race in history comes to a close
BELLBROOK, OHIO – Ohio Republican Bernie Moreno is making his closing pitch to voters as one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country and the most expensive in American history enters its final days. Moreno addressed a large group of enthusiastic supporters on Saturday night in Greene County, Ohio, and also spoke to Fox News Digital about what he hopes undecided voters know about his race against incumbent Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown. “Sherrod Brown is too liberal for Ohio,” Moreno said. “I’m for Ohio. He’s for they/them. The reality is I’m going to work every single day to make the lives of Ohioans better. Sherrod Brown has failed: 200,000 manufacturing jobs lost, Generationally high inflation, instability in every corner of the world. He’s for the Green New Deal. He doesn’t represent Ohio’s values.” “He’s too liberal for Ohio. I’m going to make a change. I’ll work hard every single day and always remember that voters are in charge.” I’M BERNIE MORENO: THIS IS WHY I WANT OHIO’S VOTE FOR SENATE After trailing Brown in most polls all summer, Moreno has pulled virtually even with Brown in the last few weeks. Moreno was asked whether he is “nervous” about the race given that the polls are so tight. “No, because, look, the polls had to be tied with Matt Dolan in the primary and we won by 18,” Moreno said. “Now, I don’t think it’s going to be an 18-point victory. But based on the energy, the enthusiasm, the early vote, the idea that people just want a change.” “They’ve been crushed by the last four years. High prices, open borders, instability all over the world. They see the people in Washington, D.C., taking better care of illegal immigrants than American citizens. They see this country sending billions of dollars overseas when we have real needs here. So I think the temperature in the country, in Ohio, they want to change. Now, here’s Sherrod Brown trying to run as a change candidate, which of course, is nonsense, considering they’re the party in charge right now. They have been for four years.” VULNERABLE DEM SENATOR TIED TO ‘RADICAL GROUPS’ WORKING TO CLOSE MASSIVE POWER PLANT IN SWING STATE Moreno, who drew a loud applause from the crowd after saying he is looking forward to “firing” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., assuming Republicans take control of the Senate, criticized Brown for lamenting the idea that “greedy corporations” are generating high inflation. “Come on, look, you know the greediest organization on earth? Government,” Moreno said. “You talk about powerful, greedy corporations? That’s the government. You don’t love your people and your country when you allow government spending combined with an assault on American energy to drive our prices up so that you can’t afford McDonald’s.” LEAKED VIDEO EXPOSES DEM STAFFER ADMITTING ‘QUIET PART OUT LOUD’ IN FIERY TIRADE: ‘OPEN THE F—ING BORDER’ On immigration, Moreno also made the case that politicians in Washington, D.C., can’t claim to love the country while at the same time allowing millions of illegal immigrants to cross the southern border. “If you love the people of this country, I mean, when I tell you genuinely love Americans, not just the country, but the people in the country, you don’t allow 12 million people to come into this country without being vetted,” Moreno said. “Uncontrolled illegal immigration, you just would never allow that if you love this country.” Brown’s ads have blanketed the airwaves, hitting Moreno on abortion and his business record, while Moreno has labeled Brown a career politician who is essentially a rubber stamp for the Biden-Harris administration. “Ohioans know Sherrod has worked with Republicans and stood up to his own party to get things done for Ohio – from taking on special interests to lower costs, to standing up to bad trade deals that shipped Ohio jobs overseas, to passing bipartisan laws to protect Ohioans from dangerous fentanyl,” a Brown campaign spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “While Sherrod fights to make sure hard work pays off for all Ohioans, Bernie Moreno has made it clear that he only looks out for himself, refused to pay his own employees the overtime they earned and destroyed the evidence to get away with it, and would overturn the will of Ohioans by supporting a national abortion ban.” The contentious ad campaign between the two candidates has become the most expensive Senate race in American history and is expected to exceed $500 million, eclipsing the $412 million price tag of the 2020 Georgia Senate race between Jon Ossoff and David Perdue, NBC News reported. Tuesday’s Ohio Senate election is expected to play a key role in whether Republicans are able to take control of the Senate, with many believing Brown represents one of the strongest chances Republicans have to do so. The Cook Political Report ranks the race as a “toss up.”
Harris didn’t mention Trump’s name during rally for first time as candidate
Vice President Kamala Harris did not mention the name of her opponent, former President Donald Trump, for the first time at her campaign rallies while hitting stops in Michigan on Sunday, just two days before Election Day. Harris made four campaign stops across the battleground state without mentioning Trump’s name as she looked to close out her campaign for president on a positive note. The vice president ended Sunday with a rally at Michigan State University’s Jamison Field House in East Lansing, where she sought to contrast her optimistic tone with what she has described as the darker message of her Republican opponent. “We have an opportunity in this election to finally turn the page on a decade of politics driven by fear and division,” Harris said in a veiled reference to Trump. “We are done with that. We are exhausted with that. America is ready for a fresh start, ready for a new way forward where we see our fellow American not as an enemy, but as a neighbor.” ON ELECTION EVE, HARRIS AND TRUMP HOLD DUELING RALLIES IN THE BIGGEST OF THE BATTLEGROUNDS While Harris was hoping to end with a more optimistic tone, surrogates of the vice president have recently hurled insults at Trump and his supporters. On Tuesday, President Biden spoke during a virtual Harris campaign with Voto Latino, where he took a swipe at Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden. The rally made headlines after insult comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made a joke referring to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.” Biden, however, would go on to make his own headlines with his description of Trump supporters. “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden said. “His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and it is un-American.” FETTERMAN UNLEASHES EXPLETIVES AIMED AT TRUMP IN CNN INTERVIEW, CONCEDES 45 HAS ‘CONNECTION’ WITH PA VOTERS On Thursday, billionaire Mark Cuban appeared on ABC’s “The View,” making comments some deemed insulting against women. “Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women. Ever,” Cuban said. “It’s just that simple. They’re intimidating to him. He doesn’t like to be challenged by them.” Meanwhile, Trump made stops in Pennsylvania, another critical battleground state that could tip the scales of the election. Trump flipped Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in 2016, but all three turned blue for Biden in 2020. Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman and Joseph A. Wulfsohn, along with The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Iowa poll shows Democrats in position to flip 2 GOP House seats
Democrats are in a position to possibly flip two of Iowa’s four House seats, according to a new poll. The state’s four House seats are currently controlled by Republicans. Democrats have the upper hand in the 1st and 3rd Congressional Districts, while Republicans remain ahead among voters in the 2nd and 4th Districts, according to a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll. In the 1st Congressional District, 53% of respondents said they preferred the Democratic candidate, while 37% said they would vote or have already voted for the Republican. Democratic challenger Christina Bohannan, therefore, has a 16-point lead over Republican incumbent Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks in their 2022 rematch contest. SHOCK POLL HAS HARRIS LEADING TRUMP IN IOWA WITH 3-POINT SHIFT TOWARD VICE PRESIDENT IN RED STATE Miller-Meeks secured victory over Bohannan by nearly 7 percentage points in 2022. “This race was always going to be competitive,” Miller-Meeks campaign spokesman Tyler Menzler said in a statement. “In 2020, Mariannette Miller-Meeks won by 6 votes and in 2022, she won by 7 points.” “Just like yesterday, the final Selzer poll greatly defies the reality on the ground,” Menzler said. “And not even the Democrats are buying it. On Tuesday, Mariannette Miller-Meeks will win the only poll that matters and be re-elected.” The Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows 48% of voters in the third congressional district prefer the Democratic candidate, while 41% said they voted or will vote for the Republican. Democratic challenger Lanon Baccam has a 7-point lead ahead of Republican incumbent Rep. Zach Nunn. In the 2nd Congressional District, 45% of respondents prefer the Republican, while 42% prefer the Democrat. Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson has a three-point lead over Democrat Sarah Corkery. ALASKA, IOWA, MONTANA, 7 OTHER STATES END EARLY IN-PERSON VOTING ON MONDAY Republican incumbent Rep. Randy Feenstra wields a 16-point lead over Democratic challenger Ryan Melton. The poll found 53% of voters support the Republican in the 4th Congressional District, while 37% of voters support the Democratic candidate. The polling represents the first time since September 2020 that Democrats have the advantage statewide on the congressional ballot. In the last poll in September, Republicans were favored statewide, 52% to 44%. Since then, Iowa voters have shifted toward Democrats. The Democrat in the 1st congressional district had a 3-point lead in September, while the Republicans had the advantage in the three other races then. The new poll was conducted from Oct. 28-31 and sampled 808 likely Iowa voters. That included people who had voted already or who told pollsters they would definitely vote. Its margin of error statewide was plus or minus 3.4 percentage points, and for congressional districts, was a maximum of plus or minus 7.2 percentage points.
Trump campaign ‘expanding the map,’ Vance says in New Hampshire
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance is predicting a Trump victory in New Hampshire on Election Day, telling voters there that the campaign is “expanding the map” compared to past presidential races. “I believe that in two days we’re going to turn New Hampshire red and make Donald Trump the next president of the United States,” the Ohio senator and Trump’s running mate told a crowd in Derry on Sunday night. “I got to be honest, a couple of months ago, I wasn’t necessarily sure that the day before the last full day of the campaign, we’d be in the great state of New Hampshire. But I think that it suggests that what we’re doing is expanding the map,” Vance continued. “We’re bringing new voters into this coalition and for the folks in New Hampshire who want to live free, we are the only ticket in town, Donald J. Trump is the only president for you.” Vance said a margin of just .37% in 2016 “was the difference between Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump.” HARRIS PICKS UP ENDORSEMENTS FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICANS The state went blue that year, and then in 2020 President Biden defeated Trump in New Hampshire 52.9 to 45.5%. “I think what’s different this time around is that we have seen for the last four years the incredible failures of Kamala Harris’s governance and the way that it has affected people in this great state as much as anybody else in the union,” Vance said Sunday. GOP CANDIDATE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE POINTS OUT DEMOCRAT OPPONENT IS A MILLIONAIRE AFTER BEING ACCUSED OF FAVORING RICH “I’ve heard already since I’ve been in the state of New Hampshire, about the terrible toll of Kamala Harris’ open border, about the migrant crisis that has made its way hundreds of miles from the American southern border, right here to the state of New Hampshire,” Vance added. “I hear from New Hampshire families who can’t afford the cost of groceries, who can’t afford to buy a home, and I think our message in just two days to Kamala Harris is going to be very simple and my running mate loves to say it, you are fired. Go back to San Francisco, where you belong. We don’t want you in the White House.” In the final Fox News Power Rankings forecast before Election Day, New Hampshire was placed in the “leans Dem” category.
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