Trump will visit Pennsylvania and seek votes from Americans of Polish descent. He will meet with President Andrzej Duda.
The fight for the votes of Polish voters in the US is in full swing. It all started with Kamala Harris, when during the presidential debate on September 10 she mentioned “800,000 members of the Polish diaspora living in Pennsylvania” and suggested that Donald Trump would not mind handing Poland over to Vladimir Putin in exchange for favors. Her team then produced commercials that were broadcast in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. These are three key states in the Great Lakes, inhabited by a large percentage of Americans who claim Polish roots (5.84%, 7.79% and 8.19%, respectively). The background sound is the call of the Santa Maria bugle, and the narrator assures that Harris will “defend our great allies”.
The Democrat’s actions have not gone unnoticed by Trump’s campaign team. On Sunday, the Republican candidate is scheduled to appear at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, about 25 miles from downtown Philadelphia. This Marian shrine is called the American Czestochowa, and Ronald Reagan spoke here in 1984. President Andrzej Duda will also be in Doylestown on Sunday, arriving from New York, where he will be staying in connection with the 79th session of the UN General Assembly. A meeting between Trump and Duda is almost certain to take place in Pennsylvania. This will be the first conversation between the politicians since April, when they met at Trump Tower in Manhattan. This should be read as a campaign endorsement of the Republican, a kind of response to a political favor for the Polish president – he was received at the White House in 2020, just a few days before the first round of the Polish presidential election. The government in Warsaw and the head of the Foreign Ministry, Radosław Sikorski, welcome Duda’s contacts with the Republican, who has a chance of returning to the Oval Office. There is a consensus in Poland that isolationist tendencies among Republicans must be actively combated.
Sunday in Doylestown will be the culmination of a week of Trump rallies. After the failed attack in Pennsylvania, we can expect more activity than usual from the Secret Service, which has been criticized for allowing a gunman to approach the Republican candidate again (this time on a golf course in Florida). According to information from the DGP, the event in Doylestown will not resemble a rally, guests will be carefully selected, crowds are not invited and are not expected. The photos will probably be used in campaign ads for the Republican.
