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Early voting continues to rise as Donald Trump and Joe Biden cross the United States in the final days of the campaign.
Election day in the United States is next Tuesday, November 3, and Donald Trump and Joe Biden continue to tour the country in recent days giving their final arguments to the millions of Americans who have not yet cast their vote.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, a record number of voters have already participated, either by mail or by early voting in person, more than 71 million, according to the US Elections Project. In the 2016 elections, 57, 2 million Americans voted early out of a total of 137.5 million who voted.
Americans won’t just vote for president next week. There are 35 US Senate elections on the ballot, which will determine whether Republicans hold their majority, and all 435 US House elections are up for grabs, where Democrats are expected to not only hold their own. most, but potentially broaden it.
Where are the candidates today
Trump holds campaign rallies in Bullhead City, Arizona, along the Nevada border and in Phoenix, Arizona. Biden will speak about the coronavirus and healthcare in Wilmington, Delaware. Vice President Mike Pence travels to Wisconsin and Michigan and Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris will campaign in Arizona.
Arizona, which Trump won by 3.5 percentage points in 2016, has become a major battlefield state. Democrats feel that the state’s changing demographics, an influx of Latino voters, and shifting political sentiments in the Phoenix suburbs, give them a good chance to capture the state’s 11 electoral votes for the first time since Bill Clinton won there in 1996.
Survey position
Expect a flood of polls on Wednesday and the rest of the week as pollsters process their polls started after Thursday night’s presidential debate.
A new set of polls from The Washington Post / ABC News shows Biden leading among potential voters in two major Midwestern states that Trump won in 2016: Michigan and Wisconsin.
In Wisconsin, the poll shows that Biden rose 17 points above Trump, 57-40 percent. That’s a much bigger difference than recent polls have shown there, as the average for RealClearPolitics Wisconsin polls has Biden 5.5 percent more than Trump.
In Michigan, Biden leads Trump between 51 and 44 percent. The common thread between the two states is that the coronavirus appears to be a major factor. In both states, voters trust Biden over Trump by double digits to handle the pandemic and large majorities support the use of masks and restrictions in business and public gatherings, or “shutdowns,” as Trump repeatedly puts it in the election campaign. Polls have a margin of error of +/- 4 percent.
In case you missed it
Returns “Law and order”: Trump is attempting to take political advantage of this week’s violent protests in Philadelphia, saying at a rally in Wisconsin on Tuesday: “Philadelphia was destroyed by Biden who supported the radicals … Biden supports the bikers and I support the heroes of the application of the law “. Overnight, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany called the riots “the most recent consequence of the Liberal Democrats’ war on the police” and said the White House “is ready, upon request, to deploy each and every one of the federal resources to put an end to these riots. ” . Philadelphia called in the Pennsylvania National Guard to help deal with the riots.
Without stimulus: Nancy Pelosi criticized the Trump administration for having “failed miserably” to approve another round of coronavirus relief aid before Election Day, dashing hopes for a stimulus package before Americans go to the polls in only a week.
Electoral misinformation: Latino voters in major swing states like Florida are experiencing a wave of misinformation in Spanish ahead of the November 3 election, in which their votes could play a key role in the outcome.
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