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- US President Donald Trump and Presidential candidate Joe Biden are set to step up their campaign before their final debate this week.
- Trump will head to Nevada on Sunday and campaign every day before the final debate on Thursday.
- Biden will be in North Carolina, while his running mate Kamala Harris will travel to Florida on Monday.
US presidential rivals Donald Trump and Joe Biden will court early voters on Sunday as their campaigns escalate events ahead of their final debate this week.
Trump on Sunday will head to Nevada, a battlefield state where more than 100,000 voters have already cast their votes, according to state data. Trump will campaign every day leading up to Thursday’s debate in Florida, including stops in Arizona and North Carolina, campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said.
Biden is heading to North Carolina on Sunday, where 1.2 million voters have cast their ballots, according to state data. Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris, will return to the election campaign on Monday with a visit to Florida to mark the first day of early voting in person in that state.
So far, 25.83 million people have already voted in the November 3 presidential election, according to the United States Elections Project, breaking records.
Much of the early voting is due to security concerns about the pandemic that has killed more than 218,000 Americans and infected 8.1 million more.
Democrats have a significant advantage in early voting, driven largely by voting by mail. Of the 10.6 million votes cast by mail, 5.8 million have been cast by Democrats, according to the United States Election Project, led by the University of Florida.
Trump is lagging behind in national opinion polls and on the battlefield, and his latest campaign figures show he is also lagging behind in fundraising as the race intensifies.
‘Up to the wire’
In a memo sent to donors over the weekend, Biden’s campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon said the national numbers are misleading because the states that must win are close.
“We cannot become complacent because the most poignant truth is that Donald Trump can still win this race, and every hint we have shows this is going to go all the way,” he wrote.
On Saturday, Trump campaigned in Michigan and Wisconsin, two battle states that he narrowly won in the 2016 election.
At Saturday’s rally in Muskegon, Michigan, Trump repeatedly targeted Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat. He criticized state rules to stop the spread of the coronavirus, calling it “dishonest” and lightly made a right-wing plot uncovered by the FBI to kidnap her.
“Hopefully you’ll send her packing very soon,” Trump said, prompting the crowd to yell “Lock her up!” repeatedly.
Whitmer responded to the chants on Twitter. “This is exactly the rhetoric that has put the lives of me, my family and other government officials in danger as we try to save the lives of our compatriots,” he wrote.
