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US President Donald Trump will cast his own vote in his adopted state of Florida on Saturday (local time) before rallying supporters in three other critical states.
Meanwhile, Democrat Joe Biden is turning his attention, with a little help from rock legend Jon Bon Jovi, to the hotly contested sections of Pennsylvania that could prove key in deciding the outcome of the race there.
With just 10 days to go, Trump and Biden are pleading with their supporters to help them gain support, particularly in several key states.
“To continue our movement. I’m going to trust you. Get out there and vote, ”Trump told supporters in Florida on Friday. Vote early. Bring your friends, your family, your neighbors, your co-workers. Even grab your boss and say, ‘Come on, boss. You have to vote. ‘
Trump is scheduled to hold large rallies in Lumberton, North Carolina, Circleville, Ohio, and Waukesha, Wisconsin, promising to go full throttle for the final 10 days of the campaign with a series of large rallies even with the number of new coronaviruses daily. . cases continue to increase. The United States registered 71,671 new cases Thursday, and several states set records in the Midwest and West.
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Biden has focused much of his attention on exposing voters that Trump does not deserve a second term because of his handling of the pandemic that has killed more than 220,000 Americans and disrupted the economy.
John Raoux / AP
US President Donald Trump is targeting crucial states on the battlefield in the final days of the campaign.
Before his rallies on Saturday, Trump, who spent the night at his Mar-a-Lago resort after campaigning in Florida on Friday, is expected to vote early in nearby West Palm Beach. Trump last year changed his official residence to his private club in New York, complaining that politicians in his home state had treated him badly.
Biden, meanwhile, will hold a pair of drive-in events in Bucks County, part of the Philadelphia suburbs that 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won by a small margin, and in Luzerne County, a blue-collar area that voted twice for Barack Obama but overwhelmingly for Trump four years ago.
Biden’s campaign said the former vice president will be joined by Bon Jovi, a native of neighboring New Jersey, for the Luzerne event.
Andrew Harnik / AP
Former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate, hopes some star power will help the election campaign this weekend.
More than 52 million votes have already been cast, with an additional 100 million expected before a winner is declared.
The coronavirus pandemic has pushed Trump on the defensive for much of the decline, but for now it is Biden’s team that has been forced to explain itself. In the final minutes of the debate on Thursday night, the former vice president said he supports a “transition” of oil in the United States in favor of renewable energy.
The campaign released a statement hours later declaring that it would phase out taxpayer subsidies to fossil fuel companies, not industry entirely.
John Raoux / AP
Biden’s plans to address climate change by transitioning to renewables are likely to be unpopular in much of the US.
But Trump, campaigning in Florida, repeatedly addressed the issue.
“That could be one of the biggest mistakes made in the history of the presidential debate,” he rejoiced at a rally at The Villages, a sprawling retirement community in central Florida, where thousands of people gathered outdoors in a polo field. Most did not wear masks.
Later, in Pensacola, Trump recounted the moment with glee.
Evan Vucci / AP
Trump is taking advantage of Biden’s comments on the oil transition, hoping to regain ground as he lags behind in the polls.
“It looked like he made it, it looked like he was going to be fine. He got off the stage, went back to his basement, and then they hit him with the energy question. They hit him with a thing called oil, “he told a sprawling crowd in the Florida Panhandle that appeared to be one of the largest of his campaign to date.
While Florida still records thousands of new Covid-19 cases daily, audience members stood and sat shoulder to shoulder and the Make America Great Again hats outnumbered the face covers. Voting in person in the state began Monday.
As part of his damage control, Biden sent his running mate Kamala Harris to help clarify her position while she campaigned in the transitional state of Georgia.
Evan Vucci / AP
Trump is intensifying the rallies in the final stretch of the 2020 election campaign.
“Let’s be really clear on this: Joe Biden is not going to ban fracking,” Harris said, referring to a technique that uses pressurized liquid to extract oil or natural gas.
“He is going to deal with the oil subsidies. You know, the president likes to take everything out of context.
“But let’s be clear, Joe was talking about banning subsidies, but he won’t ban fracking in America.”
Kathy Kmonicek / AP
Democrats are in damage control duties after Biden spoke about his plan to stop using fossil fuels that harm the environment.
While campaigning at The Villages, Trump launched an insult at Harris that pointed to his gender, drawing criticism quickly.
“Kamala will not be his first female president,” Trump declared. Look, we are not going to be a socialist nation. We are not going to have a socialist president, especially a socialist president ”.
As for Biden and oil, while ending the country’s dependence on fossil fuels is popular with many liberals, the idea could hurt him among working-class voters in swing states like Pennsylvania, Ohio and Texas, which depend industry, and fracking in particular. , to make a living.
Andrew Harnik / AP
Former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate, still focuses heavily on Covid-19 in his campaign.
Trump’s allies immediately began running new attack announcements taking advantage of the Democrats’ inconsistent responses on energy. And Trump showed a video at his Pensacola rally that featured earlier comments from Biden and Harris on fracking, which Harris supported banning during his primary campaign.
As part of his plan to combat climate change, Biden has said he would ban new oil and gas permits, including fracking, only on federal lands. The vast majority of oil and gas does not come from federal lands.
