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More than 80 million Americans have voted in the presidential election, according to a count Thursday by the University of Florida’s US Elections Project.
It sets the stage for the highest turnout rate in a presidential election in more than a century.
It comes as Joe Biden and Donald Trump were holding campaign rallies in the state of Florida on Thursday.
With the election just five days apart, both campaigns converged on Tampa, Florida’s second-largest city, in an attempt to block the battlefield state’s 29 Electoral College votes.
President Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in Florida in 2016, but an NBC News / Marist poll released Thursday had Joe Biden leading 51-47 points in the state, ahead of but within the poll’s margin of error. plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
Joe Biden had a dominant advantage among black voters (84-14), women (57-41) and independents (55-41) and was also favored by older people (53-46), who make up a large proportion of voters in the sunny state.
“Right now, Biden is raising the score among voters 65 and older and independents, groups that Trump led in 2016,” said Lee Miringoff, who conducted the Marist poll.
“Still, Trump is keeping pace with Biden among Latino voters, a group that Trump badly lost last time.”
Donald Trump was favored by Latinos (52-46), white voters (52-45), men (54-44) and white voters without a college degree (62-36) in Florida, who has sided with the winner of all presidential elections since 1964 with one exception.
Joe Biden, who leads by 7.7 points on a RealClearPolitics average of national polls, will hold two rallies in Florida: drive-in events in Broward County and then Tampa.
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President Trump was going to hold a rally in the parking lot of Raymond James Stadium, home of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League.
He will then fly to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where he will meet with troops and end the day with a campaign rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Like Florida, North Carolina is another state where White House candidates are spending most of their time and resources ahead of Tuesday’s election.
North Carolina has 15 votes in the 538-member Electoral College, which ultimately decides who wins the White House.
‘Large GDP number’
Today, Donald Trump seized on the Commerce Department’s report on third-quarter GDP growth as proof that the recovery he promised from the Covid-19 pandemic is underway.
After the worst recession on record, the US economy posted a staggering 33.1% annual growth rate in the third quarter.
“The GDP figure has just been announced,” Trump tweeted. “The biggest and the best in the history of our country, and not even close.
“Next year will be FANTASTIC !!!” he said.
“However, Sleepy Joe Biden and his record-breaking tax increase proposal would end it all. I’m glad this great GDP figure was released before November 3.”
The Trump campaign called the figures “absolute validation of President Trump’s policies.”
“President Trump will continue to reopen the country safely, while Biden is the candidate for the closures, inviting another economic shutdown that would devastate workers and cause even more health problems beyond what the coronavirus has caused.” said.
Despite Trump’s exuberance, economists warned that the rebound in the July-September period, after a 31.4% drop in the second quarter, was driven by consumer spending backed by massive government aid from $ 3 trillion, much of which has expired.
Biden’s campaign said that “with today’s report, we are still on track to have the worst economic recession in more than 70 years.”
“We are in a deep hole and President Trump’s inaction has meant that third-quarter growth was not enough to get us out of (him),” he said.
“The recovery is slowing, if not stagnant, and the ongoing recovery is helping those at the top, but leaving behind tens of millions of working families and small businesses.
“President Trump does not yet have any plans to get our country out of this crisis and move us forward.”
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