By Athena Papakosta

The former president of the United States of America, Donald Trump, described his election rally at the iconic Madison Square Garden stadium in New York three 24 hours ago as a festival of love. As a festival of love, however, he had also characterized the invasion of his followers in the Capitol in January 2021.

Donald Trump’s incendiary pre-election rhetoric is further fueling the already polarizing and divisive most divisive election contest in US history.

For their part, the Democrats are taking advantage of the fact. They accuse the Republican candidate of being a Nazi and put his bigoted and racist speeches at the center of the election campaign of the vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris.

But Donald Trump has a completely different opinion. “I’m the opposite of a Nazi,” he declares, while his wife Melania enlists to correct the misspellings. “He’s not like Hitler. All his supporters support him because they want to see their country be successful and we see the kind of support he enjoys,” he said – among other things – as a guest on FoxNews.

The Democrats, however, insist and point out that what was heard on October 27 in New York are reasons for Donald Trump not to return to the Oval Office. They even stand by the choice of speakers at Trump’s New York campaign rally, noting that their remarks were aimed at Latinos, including Puerto Ricans, anti-African Americans, anti-Jews and even anti-Palestinians. They also highlight the sexist comments made – once again – against Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s opponent in 2006, Hillary Clinton.

In his attempt to collect the disjointed, the former president of the United States on Tuesday afternoon addressed reporters in Mar a Lago in Florida.

“The love in that room was breathtaking,” he said. “It was like a love fest, an absolute love fest and it was an honor to be a part of it,” he added and added that “even politicians who have been doing this job for 30 to 40 years said they had never seen anything like it before.”

It had already been preceded by the awkward, but completely reflexive, reaction of Donald Trump’s campaign staff who distanced themselves from the comments of comedian Tony Hitchcliffe, who went so far as to describe Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean”.

In one week we will wait to find out who will emerge as the winner at the ballot box. Kamala Harris or Donald Trump?

According to the latest Ipsos poll for Reuters news agency, Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump by just one percentage point, 44% to 43%. Nothing is taken for granted with the two candidates essentially looking evenly matched and the winner expected to be decided down the line.

The vice president of the United States is now focusing on the fact that Trump’s return to the White House will bring more chaos and more division, insisting that she is offering a different path, explaining that she does not believe that those who disagree with her are the enemy. But whether the United States of America is ready for a female president remains to be seen.