内容摘要：Indigenous voices and needs are getting lost in this election. So I'm most concerned about what Canada's next government is going to do about, for example, the scandal that there are reserves in one of the richest countries in the world where people still don't have clean running water. I judge a country by how it treats its neediest.

Indigenous voices and needs are getting lost in this election. So I'm most concerned about what Canada's next government is going to do about, for example, the scandal that there are reserves in one of the richest countries in the world where people still don't have clean running water. I judge a country by how it treats its neediest.

The former president and his supporters have already started to attack Ms Harris based on her gender and ethnicity.Echoing comments from Trump’s 2016 race, in which the former president accused Ms Clinton of playing the “woman card” to attract voters, Trump’s allies have claimed Ms Harris was picked solely for the purpose of “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” (DEI).

It’s the kind of attack that Ms Harris would do best to ignore, as Ms Whitmer has done, said Mr Hemond.During Ms Whitmer’s run for governor and time in office, she has been subjected to a host of sexist remarks, including from Michigan’s former Republican Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, who once said he had “spanked” Ms Whitmer “hard” while working with her on the state’s budget.“Gov. Whitmer largely let others litigate the sexist comments that were made about her, which was smart,” Mr Hemond said. “There does seem to be a perceptual danger for female candidates in engaging directly with these types of comments.”

Mr Hemond added that ignoring these types of comments often makes for an effective strategy because a majority of voters are women themselves, many of whom can relate to having to handle “sexist comments gracefully”.Some liberal residents in Michigan hope voters will see beyond the DEI attacks against Ms Harris.

“She is intelligent, she has deep experience governing and making policy,” said Brandy, a voter in Southeast Michigan.

The Morning Consult poll also showed that Ms Harris’ ratings are a significant improvement on Mr Biden’s in swing states, and that she has gained 5 points in Michigan.Donald Trump's trade advisor, Peter Navarro, has suggested this week that the US could apply pressure on other countries, including Cambodia, Mexico and Vietnam, not to trade with China if they want to continue to exporting to the US.

The US and China together account for such a large share of the global economy, around 43% this year according to the International Monetary Fund.If they were to engage in an all-out trade war that slowed their growth down, or even pushed them into recession, that would likely harm other countries' economies in the form of slower global growth.

Global investment would also likely suffer.There are other potential consequences.