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Here’s a look at what’s happening in the American election campaign two weeks before Election Day on November 3.
This combination of file images created on September 28, 2020 shows Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden (L) speaking in Tampa, Florida, on September 15, 2020, and US President Donald Trump speaking during an event for Black supporters at the Cobb Galleria Center on September 25, 2020, in Atlanta, Georgia. Image: AFP
WASHINGTON – A White House Candidate Across America; the other is at home, preparing for the final debate.
Here’s a look at what’s happening in the American election campaign, two weeks before Election Day on November 3:
Biden calls it a day, at breakfast
The campaign of Joe Biden, the former Democratic vice president competing against Donald Trump to win the Oval Office, announced earlier in the day that the 77-year-old had no public events on his schedule.
That raised questions for some about his health and his strategy going down the stretch, but it was believed that he was preparing for his final debate with the Republican incumbent.
“Has anyone seen Joe Biden?” joked Trump’s campaign team on Twitter, coining the hashtag #WhereIsJoe.
Trump in Pennsylvania, without Melania
While Biden remained at home, Trump, 74, headed to Pennsylvania, a battleground state he won in 2016 that is key to his re-election bid.
Trump, who follows Biden in the polls, has stepped up the rhetoric as his campaign enters the home stretch, attacking the former Democratic senator on multiple fronts, especially criticizing the accusation that Biden is corrupt.
His attack centers on a conspiracy theory about the business activities of the Biden family. According to Trump, Biden’s son Hunter sold access to his father in Ukraine and China while serving as Barack Obama’s vice president.
Trump had hoped to have his wife Melania by his side at the event in Erie, Pennsylvania, but the first lady chose not to travel, citing a “nagging cough” that has persisted since her coronavirus outbreak.
The campaign hopes to help her husband win some key votes among suburban women.
NYT reveals Trump’s business activities and bank account in China
In a new report, The New York Times revealed that Trump spent years cultivating business projects in China, where he even has a previously unknown bank account.
The news comes as the US president attempts to portray Biden as soft on Beijing, while brandishing a “America first” banner himself, presenting China as the biggest threat to America and global democracy.
The Chinese account, controlled by Trump International Hotels Management, is one of three the president maintains in foreign countries, including Britain and Ireland, according to an analysis of his tax records by the newspaper.
Records show the company “paid $ 188,561 in taxes in China while pursuing licensing deals there from 2013 to 2015,” the Times reported.
Biden leads the polls, but the gap narrows
According to the latest poll by The New York Times and Siena College released Tuesday, Biden leads Trump between 50% and 41% among potential voters.
Trump has no advantage over the challenger on any major issue at stake in the election, from his handling of the coronavirus pandemic to the economy, seemingly leaving him little room to breathe to make up the difference over time.
But according to another survey conducted by Investor’s Business Daily and the Technometric Institute of Politics and Politics (IBD / TIPP), the gap between the two septuagenarians has narrowed considerably, standing at just 2.3 percentage points: 48.1% for Biden a 45.8% for Trump.
The IBD / TIPP poll was one of the few that predicted a Trump victory in 2016.
His latest poll shows that Republicans support Trump and that Biden loses some support among unconvinced Democrats.
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