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Early voting began yesterday in Florida, one of the top states in the US presidential elections, which may be decisive in determining the winner on November 3 in case of convergent results, while support for candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden in opinion polls in this state is about the same. And 15 days before the elections, the Republican president will head to Arizona, another prominent state, where he will hold two meetings as part of his marathon electoral tour that he launched a week after confirming his “recovery” from Covid-19. There is no meeting scheduled for the Democratic candidate, according to US media, as he begins his preparations for the last televised debate scheduled for Thursday. On the other hand, the Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is preparing to move to Florida to renew her electoral campaign activities after being suspended for four days for the recording of Covid-19 cases in her environment.
She is expected to visit Orlando and Jacksonville, where she will be invited to participate in the elections early in person, while her husband Doug Amhoff will head to Miami and Palm Beach. Since the morning, many voters, wearing masks, lined up in front of the Miami Beach municipality to cast their votes.
“I’ve been waiting for the election for four years,” said Jacqueline Morris, a 40-year-old Democratic voter, taking selfies with a sign that read, “I voted.”
Early voting is receiving a lot of attention this year, reaching unprecedented levels, reflected in long lines in front of polling stations in the states where elections began. And 15 days before the presidential election, 28 million Americans cast their votes nationwide, in person or by mail, which is equivalent to about one-fifth of the overall expected turnout, according to the Independent Election Project. Democrats called for an early mass vote, as a precautionary measure amid the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic. Given this, Trump denounces an approach that would lead to “rigging” the elections, without supporting his statements with evidence, and promised that his voters would go to vote in large numbers on November 3, to discredit the polls that predict his defeat.
Trump records a drop in polls nationwide and in most critical states to determine the winner. And he realizes that he cannot ignore Florida, in which he narrowly won in 2016, and is therefore stepping up election rallies, in an attempt to further narrow the gap in intentions to vote with his opponent, according to two studies from two institutes that enjoy a positive reputation among Republicans. Biden is now 1.4% ahead of Trump in Florida, up from 4.5% two weeks ago, according to a survey by the two institutes. As for the former vice president, who campaigns with less dynamism and refrains from holding large rallies for fear of the epidemic, he did not forget the southeastern state either and visited it three times, since he especially tried to attract the important group of retirees who He cast his vote for the Republican candidate four years ago, but it seems he’s leaning this time. For Biden.
The focus will be largely on Florida on Election Night, first because of the intense contest, and because its 14 million voters and its 29 large constituency turnout are crucial to achieving the 270 majority needed in the election. commission to get to the White House. And in 2000, only hundreds of votes in this crucial state helped determine the winner between Al Gore and George Bush Jr., after a court battle and more than once the recount. According to the Miami Herald, the two camps have appointed teams of attorneys in anticipation of close proximity in the results, which would determine the name of the next president of the United States.
The US Supreme Court received a request to consider two symbolic issues related to Trump’s immigration policy, which will be studied after the presidential elections scheduled for November 3.
The Supreme Court agreed to consider the use of defense funds by the Republican administration to finance the construction of a wall on the southern border, one of Trump’s key promises in his 2016 election campaign. The president had declared a “state. “national emergency” to use the defense budget after facing rejection. Democratic representatives in Congress provided the necessary funds. The crisis resulted in the closure of federal government departments in early 2019 for a period of 35 days, an unprecedented period. The Supreme Court will also consider a presidential decree that allowed the return of more than 60,000 asylum seekers to Mexico while their files are examined.
The president of the United States attacked his critics of the members of his republican party, calling them “idiots”, at the same time that he called them to join his ranks after increasing their criticism of him and warning them of a painful defeat in the presidential elections planned for On November 3. Trump’s comments came as he and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, headed Sunday to win votes in states swaying in the final yards before the presidential election, whose polls show the wealthy real estate mogul is in danger of losing him. .
(AFP)
