Close to home: ‘Americans not focused principally on what’s going on in Ukraine, Gaza or east Asia’

President Joe Biden tried to explain this week that he doesn’t really think Donald Trump’s supporters are “garbage,” but that doesn’t mean that other people don’t believe the label occasionally fits. “I would say that some of them are garbage,” said Samantha Leister, 32, who went to see Kamala Harris at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. As for the rest of them? Leister, whose parents and father-in-law are backing Trump, says they are “misguided.” That same day, at Trump’s rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, the idea of voting for Harris was impossible to fathom. “I just think they are uneducated, and they believe all the lies,” said Shawn Vanderheyden, 44, who went to see Trump with his wife and two young daughters. “It’s unfortunate.” For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on the historic presidential election in the United States, FRANCE 24’s Yinka Oyetade is joined by Dr. Peter Trubowitz, Author and Professor of International Relations and Director of the Phelan US Centre at the London School of Economics. Professor Trubowitz is also Political Science and Associate Fellow at Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs.