Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban said on Sunday, November 3, 2024, that Europe will need to rethink its support of Ukraine if Donald Trump is elected, as the continent “will not be able to bear the burdens of the war alone.”
Europe is concerned about how the outcome of the US election will affect the war in Ukraine and the continent’s security.
Orban opposes military aid to Ukraine and has made clear he thinks Trump shares his views and would negotiate a peace settlement for Ukraine.
“We (in Europe) need to realize that if there will be a pro-peace President in America, which I not only believe in but I also read the numbers that way, … if what we expect happens and America becomes pro-peace, then Europe cannot remain pro-war.
“Europe cannot bear the burden of [the war] alone, and if Americans switch to peace, then we also need to adapt.”
Viktor Orban
According to the final New York Times/Siena College poll, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump remain in a tight race in the country’s seven battleground states.
It showed Harris with marginal leads in Nevada, North Carolina and Wisconsin and Trump just ahead in Arizona.
The two are in close races in Michigan, Georgia and Pennsylvania, according to the poll, which surveyed 7,879 likely voters in the seven states from October 24 to November 2, 2024.
In all seven states, the matchups were within the poll’s 3.5% margin of error.
About 40% of the respondents had already voted and Harris led among those voters by 8 percentage points, while Trump leads with voters who say they are very likely to vote but have not yet done so, the poll found.
The outlet said that tied race in Pennsylvania shows Trump gaining momentum in a state Harris had led by four percentage points in all prior New York Times polls.
Sunday is set to be a busy day for Donald Trump with appearances in three swing states.
The Republican nominee will kick off the day with a rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania, followed by an afternoon event in Kinston, North Carolina, and rounding the day off in Macon, Georgia.
On the other hand, Harris will head to Michigan later on Sunday where the Democratic hopeful is due to speak at a campaign rally at Michigan State University in East Lansing.
In the campaign’s final days, Harris has sought to convince voters that she will bring down the cost of living.
She has also portrayed Donald Trump as dangerous and erratic and urged Americans to move on from Trump’s divisive approach to politics
However, Trump has argued that Harris, as the sitting Vice President, should be held responsible for the rising prices and high levels of immigration of the past several years, which he has portrayed as an existential threat to the country.
Trump Campaign Confident About Prospects
Trump’s campaign aides are bullish about their prospects with their internal polls showing them ahead of his rival Kamala Harris during the final weekend of the campaign before the election, even as they also concede they actually have no idea how America’s election will ultimately break.
The confidence is mainly coming from two places: some polls that show the former US president ahead in every battleground state and Republicans holding onto early vote leads in places like Nevada, which they extrapolate to read that the Sun Belt states may be increasingly out of reach for Harris.
The Trump campaign leadership is also taking solace in their polls showing a majority of the country thinks the country is on the wrong track – what they see as a leading indicator for momentum – and election forecasters like Nate Silver putting Trump’s odds of victory at 55% to Harris at 45%.
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