Michelle Obama asked the question we're all thinking, but struggle to answer [View all]

Most polls show the US election is a coin toss, but are Americans seriously looking to a fraudster who increasingly uses fascist rhetoric and is hellbent on vengeance? Depends on their mood.

Seven minutes into a searing takedown of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Michigan last week, former first lady Michelle Obama posed the question millions of other Americans have been asking: “Why on earth is this race even close? I lay awake at night wondering what in the world is going on.”

Many Australians are wondering the same thing. How can it be that Americans may be days away from re-electing a man who was convicted of falsifying business records, denied the results of the 2020 election, encouraged an attempted coup in the US Capitol, uses increasingly fascist rhetoric about migrants “poisoning the blood” of the country and openly says he wants to use dictatorial powers to circumvent the courts and Constitution to take vengeance on his enemies?

And that’s only to count things that have happened since Trump was dumped from office in 2020, the first president since George H. W. Bush to be denied a second term.

Yet with election day approaching, most polls show the race is a coin toss, especially in seven key swing states that will decide the outcome. While the polls may be wrong (more on that later), they suggest it won’t be a runaway victory for the candidate promising to maintain democracy, Vice President Kamala Harris. Which, in turn, raises a big question for the Democrats: how did they let this happen?
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