U.S. Election Campaign: The Rivals and Their Styles

Two different personalities, two different ways. One has a carefree approach, another tight guarded. 

As the November 5, the day of polling for the presidential election of the most powerful nation of the world nears, distinctive style of election campaign by the two rivals is becoming all too starkly visible.

While Democratic candidate Kamala Harris chooses to attract voters with supports of Obama couple, singers and artists, as well as going carefully on the issues of the voters, Republican candidate Donald Trump is all carefree. Tech billionaire Elon Musk is in support of Trump, but Trump attracts more attention by his characteristic style, rather than by his going after the issues and policies. Trump in his rallies tries to pull attention by musing about, according to some news organisations, ‘hydrogen power car exploding’, marvelling at how ‘billionaire Elon Musk’s rocket had returned to Earth in one piece’, how Kamala Harris was ‘working less than he was’, how Barrack Obama was “a jerk” and how the Chinese President Xi Jinping was a "fierce" leader. On Sunday, Trump kicked off his final round of campaign from New York’s Madison Square.

Democratic candidate Harris, on the other hand, had superstar singer Beyonce in Houston on Friday night to seek support for her.

While Harris has been arguing that Trump is “non-serious”, Trump’s campaign says that it is the style of Trump to attract voters’, and that Trump does argue out policy matters in his own ways.

While Mr Trump is on his third presidential election campaign, having won the first and lost the second, for Harris this is the first one.