2024-Voting for president

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Grammar 2 Gerund

Trump/his rhetoric

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Grammar 1 Titles and articles

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Harris/biden vs Trump

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Rules that can challenge the elections

The process

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Presidents of the 20th century?

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Table of content

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Presidents of the 20th/21st century?

American political symbols

M.X considers entering the political arena and running his country. Let's see what it takes and the different steps to follow so that he could become the head of the state and the head of the government. Take notes.

Step 1How to become president?

You must...

Who can run for president in the USA? CO

1-The requirements

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2-Caucuses and primaries GW-CO

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Let's apply that to the 2024 election

Ok, so far, so good? But it is not that simple, let's see if we can go through this...

Step 2A few tricky rules

The electoral college, the "winner take all" & the "swing states.

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How much did you learn?

ex: Ø President Trump was the front runner in this election. He is now the president of the USA.

Grammaire: les articles devant un titre

Titre + nom propre= pas d'article

Trump's power

Group1-The electoral college & "winner take all"

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Group 2-The general election and the swing states

Let's recap

You were asked to sketchnote the process of the American elections for the kids of your district. Sketnote in groups. you will have to adress the kids' class.

Your task 1: visual thinking

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Understood? So what is at stake with the two candidates?

Step 32016-2024

Does it sound familiar?

Grammar: the gerund

2024- Trump's supporters line of conduct

Listen and explain the line of conduct of Trump's supporters for 2024.Make a link with the previous video.Make a link with

On your own Listen to Biden's speech 1- CO: write the account of what you understand 2-Compare the line of conduct embodied by Biden for the Democrats to the one we studied (the Republicans')

Step 4: Biden's reaction

Before starting the written comprehension (NEXT PAGE), make sure you master every aspect of the American electoral system. Have fun! This will be checked in class next time. Follow the link and do the 7 levels.

1. Warm up

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Click on the icon corresponding to your group, read the text, all the texts are from the same article from the American newspaper USA Today, dated November 2024, then fill in the collaborative pad (yellow dot) 1. find out the reasons why Harris was defeated, 2. find out the point of view of the journalist 3. Look for the difficult words in an online dictionary (word reference) 4. collaborate to build a coherent paragraph using link words

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Team work:

How Kamala Harris lost the election: The fatal flaws in a doomed election bid

WASHINGTON – When Kamala Harris appeared on ABC’s "The View" last month, it was supposed to be a friendly forum to introduce herself to Americans unfamiliar with her story. The Democratic presidential nominee instead struggled to explain what she would do differently from President Joe Biden. “Not a thing that comes to mind,” Harris, the incumbent vice president, told the hosts. After President-elect Donald Trump’s lopsided election victory over Harris, that television moment underscored a fatal flaw of Harris’ campaign that doomed her election bid – an inability to separate herself from an unpopular president whose approval ratings have hovered around 40% for most of his four years in the White House. David Axelrod, former longtime adviser to Barack Obama, called the exchange “disastrous” for Harris as he recapped the election outcome on CNN early Wednesday. “There’s no doubt about it. The question is: What motivated it?” In poll after poll, Americans for months overwhelmingly said they believed the country was headed in the wrong direction.Harris cast herself as a "new generation of leadership" and the forward-looking candidate who would work across the aisle and seek solutions, not political warfare, to address America's concerns with rising costs and housing affordability.But given Harris’ status as a sitting vice president, she never fit the mold of a traditional “change candidate” and she remained tethered to Biden – staying loyal to him even as Americans made clear they disapproved of his handling of inflation and migration at the southern border.

Watch the video, take notes with your neighbors, compare and write the key elements in the notebook.

Did Harris focus too much on Trump?From the beginning, Harris tried to make the race a referendum on Trump.In the final weeks of the campaign, Harris escalated her rhetoric, calling the former president a fascist, warning that he is "unhinged and unstable," and highlighting the assessment of Trump's former White House chief of staff, John Kelly, who alleged Trump had made admiring statements about Adolf Hitler.She increasingly leaned into framing the election as a fight for democracy, much like Biden did before he dropped out of the race in 2024.“Kamala Harris lost this election when she pivoted to focus almost exclusively on attacking Donald Trump,” veteran pollster Frank Luntz said on X, formerly Twitter. “Voters already know everything there is about Trump – but they still wanted to know more about Harris’ plans for the first hour, first day, first month and first year of her administration. “It was a colossal failure for her campaign to shine the spotlight on Trump more than on Harris’ own ideas.”

National ConventionsEach party holds a national convention to select a final presidential nominee. State delegates from the primaries and caucuses selected to represent the people will now “endorse” their favorite candidates and the final presidential nominee from each party will be officially announced at the end of the conventions. The presidential candidate also chooses a running mate (Vice Presidential candidate). The presidential candidates campaign throughout the country to win the support of the general population.https://th.usembassy.gov/summary-of-the-u-s-presidential-election-process/national-conventions/

Caucus==> representatives==> National convention==> votes for the candidate of their party who will run for president==> electoral college==> president

Vocabulary 1

Study the evolution of Trump during the previous elections, get ready to explain.

Write the key elements on your notebook (on the left). Make it simple!!Get ready to explain orally.

What is a primary?

Did she focus too much on Trump? Harris, who campaigned aggressively on restoring abortion access, won female voters by a sizable 54%-44% margin, according to CNN exit polls, but it was a slimmer margin than Biden's 57%-42% performance with women in 2020. Trump won male voters over Harris by the same 54%-44% margin as Harris won women.Abortion ended up not being the galvanizing force it was in 2022 when Democrats exceeded expectations in the midterms. Harris' loss marks the second time in three election cycles that Democrats have fielded a female presidential candidate in hopes of making history − only to lose to Trump both times.

Democrats have plenty to second-guessHarris was an unproven political commodity at the top of the ticket, ending her 2020 Democratic primary bid before voting got started. She secured the Democratic nomination this time without receiving a single vote as Democrats quickly rallied around her after Biden’s exit. She tried to distance herself from some of the liberal positions she took as a 2020 Democratic primary candidate in an appeal to Republicans and moderates.At the same time, polling consistently showed Americans held fonder memories today of Trump's four years in office − particularly his leadership of the economy − than they did when he was in the White House. Many Americans were willing to forgive Trump's well-documented baggage: four criminal indictments, two impeachments and his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Most voters, 51%, said they trusted Trump over Harris to handle the economy, which 31% of voters cited as their top concern, according to CNN's exit polls.For Democrats, the second-guessing has now begun: Was Harris the right choice to take on Trump? Should they have looked elsewhere? Or should they have stuck with Biden?

Harris underperforms among Black, Latino votersTrump's victory became all but certain when the former president was the projected winner of the battleground state of Pennsylvania and its 19 electoral votes. It's a state that Democrats had lost only once since 1988. That came in 2016 with Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton. Harris and her campaign hoped to win the White House by bringing over moderate Republican and independent voters fed up with nearly a decade of division in the era of Donald Trump.Those efforts didn't work. And Harris was also unable to prevent core Democratic constituencies − Black, Latino and young voters − from splintering. Harris underperformed with voters of color − particularly Latino voters − but also Black voters in urban centers such as Philadelphia, Detroit and Milwaukee. Harris carried Black voters 86%-12% and Latino voters 53%-45%, according to CNN exit polls. But in the 2020 election, Biden won Black voters by a wider 92%-8% margin over Trump, and Latino voters 65%-32%. Trump expanded his base of working-class voters who lack college degrees, helping him make inroads with Latino men. And yet Harris also lost ground in many college-educated suburbs, which have become Democratic strongholds in recent election cycles. In Montgomery County outside Philadelphia, Harris defeated Trump by 23 percentage points. Biden carried it by 26 points. Meanwhile, Harris worked to limit the bleeding in heavily Republican rural counties in states like Pennsylvania, but she ultimately underperformed Biden in 2020 in these places, returning to the levels Clinton got in 2016.