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Former President Obama Campaigns for His Former Vice
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In the latter stages of the US election campaign, President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden went on the final offensive, including mutual attacks. Before Tuesday’s vote, Biden tried to score points with the Obama factor: He appeared twice with the former president in the particularly competitive state of Michigan on Saturday. Trump spoke four times with supporters in Pennsylvania, another major swing state.
Biden wants to perform there on Sunday, Trump is expected in Iowa, North Carolina and Michigan. The Republican incumbent ranks behind Biden in polls both nationally and in several potentially crucial states. However, his re-election is not ruled out, especially since the electoral system means that the candidate with the most votes nationally may also lose. Both sides have declared that this year’s vote will be a fateful election and warn against the respective opponent as future president.
Tens of millions of Americans have already voted and cast their vote by letter or at the polling station. The University of Florida announced Saturday that more than 90 million citizens have already cast their vote by mail or in person at previously open polling stations. The number corresponds to 65 percent of the total number of voters four years ago. Formal election day is Tuesday.
Biden tried Saturday in Flint, Michigan, to take advantage of the annoyance of many compatriots over the past four years with Trump. “We are done with the chaos, the tweets, the anger, the hatred, the failure, the refusal to take any responsibility.” In his other appearance in Detroit, Biden said that it is wrong to turn Americans against others because of their gender, ethnicity or origin. “Everyone knows who Donald Trump is, let’s show who we are.” He reiterated his promise to serve all Americans if elected. “For God’s sake please vote!” Biden appealed, almost pleading. “It is time to get up and take back our democracy.”
Tuesday is everything, said former President Barack Obama, whose MP Biden had been until 2017. “You can choose change.” Obama promised it wouldn’t be as stressful on Biden and his vice-candidate Kamala Harris as it would on Trump. You won’t have to argue so much anymore. He praised Biden for his sense of responsibility and kindness. Biden really cares about Americans.
Michigan is one of the strategically immensely important swing states where it is not clear in advance whether the Republican or Democratic nominee will win by tradition. Pennsylvania is also a battlefield state. As in Michigan, Trump barely prevailed there in 2016; this time, the polls see Biden in the lead.
The high number of voters by mail could cause delays in the count in some states of the United States. Trump agreed with his supporters that they may have to wait several weeks for an electoral result. He also expressed anger that his Republicans could not legally avoid an extension of the deadline for vote-by-mail in Pennsylvania. Therefore, timely postmarked postal voting documents must be counted, even if they arrive three days after the election date.
Regarding the electoral results, Trump said during his appearance in Newton: “November 3 will come and go and we will not know. And there will be chaos in our country.” “Very bad things” and something “dangerous” could happen during the vote count, he warned. Trump did not provide more detailed explanations and evidence for his indictment.
For months, the president has been campaigning against the mail vote, the experience of which shows that there are more Democratic voters than Republican supporters to cast their votes. Trump says there is a huge potential for postal vote fraud. He did not provide any evidence for this. He insists that it must be clear on election night who won. In most of the previous elections, the winner actually turned out on election night.
The American president is not elected directly by the citizens, but by the electorate. Their votes go entirely to the winner in each state that sends these voters, no matter how close the result is. 270 electoral votes are required to enter the White House. In 2016, Trump won fewer votes nationwide than Hillary Clinton, but he won more voters.
Biden wants to address the nation on election night from his home in Wilmington, Delaware, as his campaign team announced Saturday. Trump, in his own words, will spend election night in Washington “between the White House and the (Trump) hotel” because the capital city administration has “set limits” for the use of his hotel there. Events with a maximum of 50 people are currently allowed in Washington. It is unusual for incumbent presidents to be in the White House on election night.
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