Polls opened early in New York, New Jersey and Virginia, marking the start of Election Day in the United States as Trump seeks to beat the odds and defeat challenger Joe Biden. The vote is widely viewed as a referendum on Trump and his singularly impetuous and painful presidency that Biden urged Americans to end to restore “our democracy.”
Republican incumbent President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden ended their most divisive and bitter election campaign on Tuesday with fervent calls on social media for undecided Americans to vote for them as they pledged to pull the country out of the forests. The November 3 presidential election has been listed as one of the most divisive in recent US history. The election is already setting turnout records, and perhaps no two candidates are more at odds over the future of the country and the direction they want to take.
Trump, 74, toured the major voting battlefields of Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania on Monday as his 77-year-old rival campaigned in Pennsylvania and Ohio, urging Americans to back them in the race for the White House. “To all of our fans: Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You have been there from the beginning and I will never let you down. Your hopes are my hopes, your dreams are my dreams and your future is what I am fighting for! days! “Trump tweeted after midnight. “A vote for Sleepy Joe Biden is a vote to relinquish control of the government to wealthy globalists, communists, socialists and hypocritical liberals who want to silence, censor, cancel and punish you. Get out there and VOTE #MAGA tomorrow!” the president wrote in another tweet, attacking Biden.
The Republican Party in a tweet said: Let’s make America great again and re-elect our fantastic president! We made history together four years ago and tomorrow we will make history again, the ruling party said. Biden, the former US Vice President, said he was “running as a proud Democrat, but I will rule as US President.” “I will work with Democrats and Republicans, and I will work as hard for those who do not support me as I do for those who do.
“Because that’s the job of a president,” he wrote. He noted that under President Trump, more than “230,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, 30 million people have lost hours, paychecks or jobs, and nearly one in five small businesses have closed.” “Are you better than four years ago?” Biden asked the voters.
If elected president, Bien said he will rebuild infrastructure, fight climate change and create millions of high-paying union jobs. “It’s time to rebuild better together,” Biden said.
National polls suggest a firm lead for Biden in Tuesday’s election. But its advantage is less in the handful of states that could decide the outcome.
Nearly 99 million people have already cast their votes in early voting, putting the country on the path to its highest turnout in a century. To be elected president, a candidate must obtain at least 270 votes in what is called the Electoral College. Each US state gets a certain number of votes in part based on its population and there is a total of 538 up for grabs on Tuesday.
The election comes amid the raging coronavirus pandemic. The United States has recorded more cases and more deaths than any other country in the world, reporting more than 81,000 new infections on Sunday alone. The United States has reported more than 231,500 deaths and more than 9,292,000 confirmed cases, according to the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 tracker, making the country the nation hardest hit by the deadly virus.
The US economy posted a record 33 percent growth in the third financial quarter of this year, following a record 31 percent contraction in the second quarter due to the enormous damage inflicted by the pandemic.
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