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US President Donald Trump continued to appear at rallies, asking his supporters to vote early by attending polling stations rather than voting by mail or waiting until presidential election day on November 3.
On Wednesday, Trump addressed his supporters in Arizona, one of the key electoral states.
He asked the crowd, “Are you waiting until Tuesday (Election Day) to do this (vote)?” He continued, “It’s good that you do that now … Go directly to the polling stations.”
More than 74 million voters cast their votes by early voting in person or by mail, according to data compiled by the “Electoral Project” at the University of Florida. This number represents a record number of more than 53% of the total number of those who voted in the 2016 elections.
Experts say that counting the large number of votes sent, which exceeds 48 million votes so far, can take days or weeks, meaning that the winner cannot be announced on November 3, after the polls close. .
What do the polls say?
Democratic candidate Joe Biden still has a comfortable lead ahead of Trump in national polls overall, and shows growing dissatisfaction with Trump’s handling of the Corona epidemic, the largest public health crisis in modern American history. United States.
However, polls show intense competition between Trump and Biden in various states that can decide the final outcome of the election.
In all, a Trump campaign official said the president plans to visit 10 states in the last week of the campaign and will hold 11 rallies in the last 48 hours.
Trump traveled to Michigan, Wisconsin and Nebraska on Tuesday and spent the night in Las Vegas, Nevada. After touring Arizona on Wednesday, he will move to Florida and North Carolina on Thursday.
Elections and pandemic
Meanwhile, Democratic candidate Biden ridiculed Trump’s claims about his success in dealing with the Corona pandemic, in light of the record number of HIV infections in several states.
“Yesterday, the White House issued a statement listing the end of the Covid-19 pandemic as President Trump’s greatest achievement in his first term,” he said in a video address on health care in Delaware.
He continued: “The most important achievement of Trump’s first term at a time when infection rates are high in almost every state in our country.”
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