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WASHINGTON – With only 20 days to go until the U.S. election, the dispute between presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden is getting even tougher. According to the Reuters / Ipsos poll published on Wednesday, the current head of the White House has narrowed the gap he had with the former vice president in Florida, one of the states crucial to winning the election. Now, Trump appears with 47% of the voting intentions, while his opponent remains with 49%. The two are technically tied for margin of error, but compared to last week’s poll, the Republican grew two percentage points.
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Nationwide, the poll shows that Biden remains in the lead, with a difference of 10 percentage points: the Democrat appears with 51% and Trump, 41%. However, the margin between the two candidates has narrowed since last week, before 12 points.
In the other five key states for voting in the Electoral College, Biden also leads the way in three of them: Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. In the first, the former vice-leader leads with a difference of 8 points, while in the other two the margin is 7 points.
In Arizona and North Carolina, as well as Florida, the Democrat and Republican are tied for error.
The Reuters / Ipsos poll also showed that there was a considerable increase in the number of respondents who said they had voted early in this election, in person or by mail. In Florida, 17% said they had already voted, while in last week’s poll 7% said yes.
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Michigan was the state with the most people who voted early: 22%. Last week, that number was 10%. In the other states, the variation between the two surveys was between 4 and 7 percentage points for more.
Preference for early voting or mail-in methods increased this year, due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. According to the US Elections Project, nearly 15 million voters have already cast their ballots to decide who will occupy the White House for the next four years.
The survey interviews were conducted between October 6 and October 14, which made it possible to measure the impact on voters of Trump’s anticipated withdrawal after being admitted to Covid-19 earlier this month.
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Focus on campaign fundraising
On Wednesday, as Trump followed his calendar of events in Iowa, Biden preferred to focus on virtual fundraising for his campaign. On Wednesday night, the Democratic team announced that in September they managed to raise $ 383 million ($ 1.9 billion). Until August, the candidate had already managed to add more than U $ 400 million (about R $ 2 billion).
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Among the strategies to get more funding, the Democrat aimed at fans of pop culture. On Tuesday, his party held an unusual campaign event, aimed at the Star Trek audience and featuring a tagline that played a pun on the franchise’s name: “Walk the vote to victory!” (“Walk the vote to victory”, in literal translation).
The cast of the musical Hamilton also announced Wednesday that they will be performing the show on Friday to raise even more funds for Biden’s campaign.
