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Karl Manke cuts a customer's hair at his barbershop in Owosso, Michigan. Manke rose to fame when he refused to close his establishment during the pandemic.

Allen Thiner, in Worthington, Minnesota, a small town where the Latino population has grown significantly in recent years.

Kackie Houze deals the cards at a bar in Iddlewild, Michigan. This small lakeside township became known because when there was racial segregation it was where African-Americans went to summer.

County Fair at Richland Center, Wisconsin. The main activity at this fair is livestock.

Republican Party table at the county fair in Richland Center, Wisconsin.

Democratic Congressman Greg Landsman speaks at a party event in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Pro-Trump propaganda truck at Lori Brock's farm in Big Rapids, Michigan. A Chinese car battery manufacturing company intends to buy this land to set up a factory. This truck was brought in for a Republican rally and stayed indefinitely.

Katie Hostetler and her daughter, both Mennonites, aboard the ferry across Lake Michigan with Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the background.

The Senate chamber of the capitol in Lansing, Michigan.

A woman shows her T-shirt with propaganda in favor of Kamala Harris, in a residential neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska.

Tractor on a farm in Big Rapids, Michigan, near where the Chinese company Gotion intends to build a large car battery factory.

Trucks at the intersection of Highways 42 and 81, South Dakota.

Nikhil Kumaran, journalist, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

38th Street and Chicago Avenue, the place where Jorge Floyd was killed during a police intervention. The place where this painting is located is the exact place where he was murdered.

An abandoned house with a “Keep America Great” sign on Interstate 94 at Grass Lake, Michigan.

Cartel electoral a favor de Trump en una granja de ganado, cerca de Magnolia, en Minnesota.

María Isa Pérez-Vega, Democratic Latina Senator in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

A man mows the lawn of his home next to a road in Wisconsin, somewhere on the way to Richland Center.

A motorist in front of a pro-Donald Trump election propaganda sign on an Ohio highway.

A painting on a wall on a Minneapolis street.

corn fields near Barnes Road, Eaton Rapids, Michigan.

Sign with the image of Kamala Harris in a residential neighborhood in Muskegon, Michigan.

Toni Vargas, Democratic senator for Nebraska and candidate for election to the U.S. Congress, during an interview in Omaha, Nebraska.

Midwest vignettes: a journey through America's open wounds.

Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa... 4,000 kilometers across the two Americas that the Democrat Kamala Harris, who aspired to become the first female president of the country, and the Republican Donald Trump, whose return to the Oval Office scares half the world, are fighting over.

Read the complete story in El País Semanal

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