Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden cast their votes in their hometown of Wilmington, Delaware on Wednesday after a speech about their plans to tackle Covid-19 if elected, while attacking the US’s handling of the pandemic. President Donald Trump.
“I will be a president who is not in this for himself, but for others. A president who does not divide us, but unites us. A president who appeals not to the worst in us, but to the best of us … A president guided not by illusions, but by science, reason and facts, “he said in the speech.
Trump, who voted in Florida last Saturday, is rallying supporters in Arizona on Wednesday, defending a traditionally Republican state that won in 2016 but where the race has turned competitive, with just six days left until the polls close for the elections. presidential.
Biden was in Georgia on Tuesday, a Republican state that hopes to break up and expand the battlefield in a growing sign of confidence that will lead him to Iowa as well, another state Trump led in 2016. “There aren’t many experts I would have guessed four years ago. years that the Democratic presidential candidate in 2020 would be campaigning in Georgia one week before Election Day, ”he said in Georgia. “But we do it, because something is happening.”
Trump will hold two rallies in Arizona, hoping to hold on to the state whose progressive leftward leaning due to growing Latino and youth demographics in recent years has been accentuated by frustration with the president’s handling of the pandemic.
Trump follows Biden in all national polls and battle states. It is behind Democrat by 8.7 percentage points on the FiveThirtyEight poll weighted average and 7.3 points on the RealClearPolitics average.
In Arizona, Trump trails Biden by 2.8 and 2.4 points on the FiveThirtyEight and RealClearPolitics averages, respectively. He had won the state by 3.5% in 2016, which was a considerably lower margin than Mitt Romney, who won it in 2012.
Trump will hold the first rally at an airport in Bullhead City, Arizona, which also serves the Laughlin side of Nevada, and then Phoenix. He won’t go to Nevada; her second son, Eric Trump, was there Tuesday.
Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris, is also campaigning in Arizona on Wednesday among Latino business owners in Tucson and blacks in Phoenix.
More than 71 million Americans have already voted, a record for voting early, in person, at the polling station or by ballot. That’s more than a third of the total 240 million eligible voters. Record early voting has already exceeded half of the 2016 total.
Trump had held rallies in Michigan and Wisconsin, the two states that won him the presidency in 2016 with Pennsylvania, and Nebraska, a conservative state that comes into play for its unique system (shared only with Maine) of granting electoral college votes. By congressional districts, not winner takes all.
Trump is behind Biden in both Wisconsin and Michigan: by 7.1 percentage points and 8.3 points respectively on the FiveThirtyEight poll average and by 5.5 points and 9 points on the RealClearPolitics average. Your path to victory will be dramatically shortened without these states.
First Lady Melania Trump addressed her first rally of this cycle in Chester, Pennsylvania, the most critical of the key states in this election.
And former President Barack Obama was in Orlando, Florida, where he launched a scathing attack on Trump. “What is your final argument? That people are too focused on Covid, “he said at a rally, referring to the president’s complaints about the epidemic. He said this at one of his rallies. ‘Covid, Covid, Covid’ is complaining, “Obama said. “He is jealous of the media coverage of Covid.”
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