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An the weekend before the US presidential election, incumbent Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden intensify their battle for votes in key regions. The last Trump in the polls made three campaign speeches in North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin on Saturday. Biden performed twice in Pennsylvania. These states could decide the outcome of the November 3 elections. Meanwhile, Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff has tested positive for the coronavirus and is in quarantine. Pence still wants to continue his campaign appearances.
Overall, the final momentum of the US election campaign is accompanied by a sharp increase in corona cases. A record was set with more than 83,000 new infections in one day. More than 900 Americans died, the total death toll exceeded 224,000. Trump, who many poll voters don’t trust to tame the crown crisis, consistently downplayed the pandemic in the face of poor numbers.
“I had it, here I am,” Trump announced, alluding to his Covid-19 disease in one of the campaign appearances. “And now they say I am immune.” Trump had been treated with an antibody drug that was still experimental, which he called a “cure.” In each of the appearances, she also said that her 14-year-old son Barron had been declared healthy by doctors shortly after testing positive. In all three speeches, Trump gave three variations on how fast he was: after 15 seconds, after 15 minutes, and the next day.
More evidence and the media is to blame
Trump attributed the rise in corona infections in the country to the fact that more tests were conducted than before. “If we analyzed half, the number would be half.” In general, the virus is constantly talked about in the media. “If you turn on the television:” Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid, “the president complained.
“A plane crashes, 500 people die, they don’t talk about it. “Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid.” “After the presidential election he will not find out because the media just wanted to scare people now,” Trump said. Thousands of fans flocked to his performances, many of them without masks.
Celebrities promote Biden
Biden repeatedly accused Trump of failing in the Corona crisis that cost Americans their lives. He asked people to wear masks. “It will be a dark winter if we don’t change our behavior,” he said. “And all because the president is more concerned about the stock market than about you,” Biden told voters.
Unlike Trump, Biden spoke in front of people who attended election campaign events with their vehicles like in a drive-in movie theater. They expressed their approval with a concert of horns. In one of the performances, rock star Jon Bon Jovi gave a mini concert. A new Biden commercial, which premiered on Saturday, was voiced by Hollywood actor Brad Pitt.
Former President Barack Obama, whose Vice President Biden once was, campaigned for him in Florida. Obama was also tough on Trump’s crisis management in the pandemic: “He doesn’t even acknowledge that there is a problem.”
Long lines in front of polling stations for early voting
On Saturday morning, Trump took the opportunity to cast his vote in the presidential election from the beginning. Trump went to a polling station at a library in West Palm Beach, Florida. “I voted for a guy named Trump,” he later said on television cameras. He stressed once again that voting in person is safer than voting by mail. Florida, where Trump has officially resided for more than a year, is one of the states in which its residents vote before the official election date.
So far, more than 50 million people have cast their vote at polling stations or by letter. In the 2016 presidential election, nearly 139 million Americans voted. In light of the crown crisis, more people than usual are taking the opportunity to vote early. After there were concerns in recent months that mailed ballots might not arrive in time, many people have to wait hours to vote in person, for example in New York, where polling stations were opened for early voting. Saturday.
Trump has been claiming for months that with mass mailed ballots, the risk of voter fraud increases dramatically. Electoral experts and authorities emphasize, however, that there is no evidence of this. Democrats are warning against an attempt by the Republican president to cast doubt on the election result.
In the presidential elections four years ago, some 47 million American citizens took the opportunity to vote early. This time, according to data from the United States Electoral Project by political scientist Michael McDonald of the University of Florida, there were already almost 57.5 million. Of these, almost 18 million would have voted personally and around 39.5 million by letter.
