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As Reuters cited the election project, the current rate is paving the way to the highest voter turnout rate in more than a decade in US history.
The agency noted that “the pace of the polls broke records, reaching around 65% of total participation in 2016, and to reflect intense interest in the vote in which Republican President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, compete. “.
And large numbers of people voted by mail or at personal first polling places, amid fears of exposure to the Corona virus at crowded polling places on Election Day, which falls next Tuesday.
Trump remains behind Biden in national opinion polls, amid criticism of the Trump administration’s handling of the emerging corona virus pandemic, which has claimed the lives of some 229,000 people in the United States, coinciding with the number of new infections breaking daily records again as Election Day approaches.
However, competition remains fiercer in the undecided states that will decide the outcome of the elections.
Democrats have been heavily involved in early voting by mail, which Republicans have been trying to avoid amid Trump’s repeated attacks on the mechanism, and his claim that the system is vulnerable to widespread fraud.
Experts predicted that turnout would easily exceed 138 million votes, which the 2016 elections managed to attract.
And in 20 states, 19.9 million registered Democrats have already voted, compared with 13 million Republicans and 10.1 million with no party affiliation. The data does not show who was voted for.
It comes as US President Donald Trump, his rival Joe Biden and his top advisers have stepped up their shuttle tour of crucial states in the industrialized Midwest and the Southeast coast in a race against time 72 hours before the presidential election. , in an attempt to rally voters in swing states.
Trump and Biden are targeting critical states like Pennsylvania, where the president has stepped up his activity dramatically as his campaign has been disrupted four times there, while Biden and his former boss, Barack Obama, together for the first time look at their supporters in Michigan twice.
Meanwhile, Vice President Mike Pence is campaigning in North Carolina, where Trump and Biden compete equally, while Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris is in Florida to push for participation in another decisive state.
Pennsylvania, where Trump scored a narrow victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, has become one of the biggest states that can win voters this year.
The two candidates have taken their battle to the U.S. Midwest since Friday, each visiting three states located in the heart of the region that is among those hardest hit by the emerging Corona virus, in their frantic pursuit of every vote. .
