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The story of Colombian Alfonso Cárdenas, who died on August 2 due to the coronavirus in the United States, was chosen by Joe Biden’s campaign to question Donald Trump’s measures against the pandemic.
The images illustrate the life of the Manizalita with photographs: the American dream, his life in the United States, his family and the disease.
“Alfonso’s death was preventable. Alfonso’s future was stolen, but not his dream. Vote as if your future depended on you because it is so, ”says Joe Biden’s campaign.
This is how the campaigns moved
Four days before the elections in the United States and amid a rebound in coronavirus infections, President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden courted voters in the Midwest, a region that fueled the Republican victory in 2016.
The current president is behind former vice president Barack Obama by about 8 points in the average of national polls -Biden, 51.6% and Trump, 43.1% –
But Tuesday’s victory is played out in a handful of states where the gap is much smaller.
Both visited several of them, all considered “red zones” for COVID-19 by the White House crisis cell, the same day that the United States, which mourns more than 228,000 deaths from the coronavirus and is the country most affected in the world due to the pandemic, exceeded 9 million infections.
When touring Minnesota and Wisconsin, with stops also for Trump in Michigan and Biden in Iowa, the differences in styles between the two aspirants to lead the world’s leading power could not be more evident.
Trump, apparently oblivious to the advance of the virus, which broke records in the number of new infections this week, continues to downplay the dangers of the disease.
“If they catch it, they will get better and then they will be immune,” said Trump, 74, near Detroit, at one of his massive rallies in which many are without masks.
“We just want to get back to normal,” he added.
While some economic data has improved in the United States, including a record third-quarter GDP expansion announced Thursday, Wall Street ended its worst week and worst month since March on Friday, bad news for Trump who is betting on the economic strength of his government to seduce voters.
Biden, meanwhile, intensified the criticism of the president.
In Des Moines, on his first visit to Iowa since the February 2019 Democratic primary, when he finished fourth, he insisted that Trump “waved the white flag” on COVID-19.
He also later questioned him for wanting to dismantle the Obama administration’s medical benefits, for not disclosing his tax returns, for circumventing climate change, for his trade policy with China.
“We can’t afford four more years of Donald Trump,” Biden said in Saint Paul at another “vehicle” event, the style of political gathering the 77-year-old Democrat adopted to prevent the spread of the virus.
“Nothing for granted”
Biden seeks to win back Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin, which Trump took from Democrats four years ago. And he wants to make sure he retains Minnesota, which has not voted for a Republican since 1972, but where Trump, who was on the heels of Hillary Clinton in 2016, hopes to win.
“I’m not taking anything for granted,” he said, in contrast to Clinton, who ignored states that had voted Democrats for decades, like Wisconsin, where he did not campaign.
Polls show Biden leading comfortable voting intention in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, but by just 1.3 points in Iowa.
Sara Riley, a 61-year-old lawyer who was at the scene in Des Moines, said she was not certain of a Biden win in Iowa. “I would not bet money,” she said, although she did predict that she will reach the White House.
Like Trump and Biden, a record 86 million Americans have already voted early by mail or in person before Election Day on November 3.
Texas from red to blue?
The electoral contest also took place in the southwest of the country on Friday, with tours of Vice President Mike Pence in Arizona, and Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris, in Texas, two other key states.
Texas, a traditionally conservative stronghold and a prized trophy that contributes 38 of the 270 votes needed to win the Electoral College election, could surprise by turning from Republican red to Democratic blue, something that has not happened since Jimmy Carter’s victory in 1976.
Nine million residents have already voted in Texas, which exceeds the total vote for the entire 2016 election in that state.
But Trump didn’t seem concerned. “In Texas we are doing very well,” he said.
According to the average RealClearPolitics poll, Trump wins by just 2.3 points in Texas and the race is tied in Arizona.
On Saturday, Biden will return to the Midwest with Obama, for his first in-person appearance in this stretch of the campaign with whom he was his right-hand man for eight years. Singer Stevie Wonder will be a special guest.
In an intense home stretch, Trump and Biden are focusing their greatest efforts on the battlefields that will decide the elections, such as Florida, where they both campaigned on Thursday, and Pennsylvania, targeted by Trump on Saturday and Biden on Sunday and Monday. .
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