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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks to reporters outside the Delaware State Building after casting his vote.
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- A US judge is ready to consider whether Houston officials should discard 127,000 votes.
- The 2020 elections have seen a record number of mail-in ballots.
- US President Donald Trump has previously refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power.
US President Donald Trump seeks support in four battle states, while Democratic rival Joe Biden focuses on Pennsylvania and Ohio during the final campaign day of his White House run.
Trump follows Biden in national opinion polls. But the contest looks so close in enough changing states that Trump could still muster the 270 votes needed to prevail in the state-by-state Electoral College that determines the winner.
– A federal judge in Texas will consider whether Houston officials should cast about 127,000 votes already cast at polling places in the Democratic-leaning area. The case has been brought by a Republican state lawmaker and others who accuse Harris County Clerk, a Democrat, of exceeding his authority by allowing direct voting as an alternative during the coronavirus pandemic.
– The election has all the ingredients for a never-ending court battle over its outcome: a highly polarized electorate, a record number of mail-in ballots, and some Supreme Court justices who seem ready to step in if there is a close contest.
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When longtime Democrat Mayra Gomez told her 21-year-old son five months ago that she was voting for Trump, she removed her from her life. The bitter divisions within families and among friends over Trump’s tumultuous presidency will be difficult, if not impossible, to repair, even after he leaves office.
– In Houston, George Floyd’s hometown, a season of protests at the polls ends.
– Each US presidential election has its own jargon, such as the “hanging chads” on voting cards in Florida that led to a historic court battle in 2000. A look at the jargon used in the days leading up to the November 3 election .
– There have been pockets of unrest in the battle states ahead of the Trump-Biden showdown in Tuesday’s election. Trump, who previously refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he decides the results are fraudulent, could bring in military or federal agents to quell civil unrest on Election Day. A look at the laws that give Trump authority in this area and the limitations on his power.
BY THE NUMBERS
Biden’s lead has widened somewhat in the closing days of the 2020 campaign in three critical Rust Belt states that Trump narrowly won four years ago, according to Reuters / Ipsos opinion polls released on Sunday. Biden leads Trump by 10 percentage points in Wisconsin and Michigan, and the presidential nominee is seven points clear in Pennsylvania.
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Cuba has more at stake in the November 3 elections than most Latin American countries, as the Trump administration has focused much of its foreign policy in the region on measures that it says are aimed at achieving democracy in the country.
Biden has vowed to push his own tax proposals on the first day if he wins Tuesday’s election, including raising the corporate tax to 28% and doubling the rate to 21% on foreign profits from patents, copyrights and trademarks. commercial.
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