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DUBUQUE, IOWA – NOVEMBER 1: President Donald Trump bids farewell to supporters while boarding Air Force One after a campaign rally at Dubuque Regional Airport on November 1, 2020 in Dubuque, Iowa. Two days before Election day, President Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden continue to campaign across the country. Mario Tama / Getty Images / AFP
WATERFORD, United States – Donald Trump vowed to defy polls again as he raced through five decisive states Sunday in a campaign blitz against Joe Biden, with just two days before a U.S. presidential election has already mobilized a record number of early voters. .
The last-minute fight came as polls showed Biden maintaining his overall lead, but with a slight adjustment in key states like Pennsylvania, where he leads by four points, and Florida, now a change, according to an average of RealClearPolitics polls.
“Now we are leading,” Trump insisted before a noisy rally by supporters in Washington Township, Michigan. “Look, we are leading in Florida. We’re leading in Georgia… They say it’s a very close race in Texas. I do not think so. They did it four years ago and I won a landslide. “
Flurries of snow fell on Trump and the crowd as he repeatedly shuddered and joked about the high winds and freezing conditions.
He warned, in a state long reliant on manufacturing, that Biden had “spent 47 years outsourcing his jobs, opening up his borders and sacrificing American blood and treasure in endless foreign wars.”
Biden and his wife Jill began the day by attending Mass at their Catholic church near their home in Wilmington, Delaware. A small group of protesters yelled at him as he arrived and left.
The former vice president spent the remainder of the day in a neighboring state that is vital to both men’s prospects: Pennsylvania, where Biden planned two events in Philadelphia.
In a speech to his supporters, he criticized the president for his divisive rhetoric and policies.
“In two days, we can end a president who failed to protect the nation, fanned the flames of hatred, fueled every opportunity he had across the nation,” Biden said.
He also continued to criticize Trump for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which Biden called “almost criminal,” after the worst week in the country’s history, with more than 1,000 Americans dying daily.
However, the president has continued to ignore the seriousness of Covid-19, even going so far as to accuse doctors of increasing the number of deaths from viruses for profit.
Trump also continued his extraordinarily open conflict with Dr. Anthony Fauci.
In an interview in the Washington Post, the respected epidemiologist said bluntly that without “an abrupt change” in the country’s public health practices, Americans face “a lot of harm down the road.”
But he praised Biden’s campaign which, in contrast to Trump’s mass demonstrations, follows the health guidelines at his public events.
Fauci’s comments drew a strong rebuke from a White House spokesman, Judd Deere, who called it “unacceptable” that Fauci “chose three days before an election to play politics.”
Meanwhile, both sides publicly radiated confidence in the middle of their final runs to the finish line.
“We’re going to find out on Election Day that a record number of people probably voted in this election because they want change,” Biden’s campaign adviser Anita Dunn said on ABC.
“They want a leader who will unite the country, not divide it.”
Trump’s campaign adviser Jason Miller predicted on ABC that Trump would sweep up the southern states and need only one of the four key Midwest states (Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Wisconsin or Michigan) to “be re-elected president.”
Trump began a grueling Sunday program with successive rallies in Michigan, Iowa, North Carolina and Georgia before an unusual 11:00 p.m. rally in Florida.
On Monday, both Trump and Biden will once again campaign in Pennsylvania, which Trump won in 2016 by less than one percentage point. Trump will then return to Michigan and Biden is reportedly adding a last-minute stop in Cleveland, Ohio.
With an increase in vote-by-mail ballots to be counted and the likelihood of legal challenges, Pennsylvania is expected to be a focus of prolonged uncertainty for days after the election.
Democrats have dominated early voting, but polls show that many Republicans plan to vote in person on Tuesday.
Underscoring the stakes, a record 93 million early votes have already been cast, according to the nonpartisan US Elections Project.
Trump, who has repeatedly claimed, without proof, that vote-by-mail ballots are open to fraud, warned Saturday of “chaos in our country” if a clear winner doesn’t emerge quickly.
Meanwhile, Biden told his backers it was “time for Donald Trump to pack his bags and go home.”
The election is taking place in a deeply divided country, with sentiments so stark that arms sales have increased in some areas. Businesses in some cities, including Washington, are covering windows protectively and police are bracing for the possibility of violence.
– ‘Life or death’ –
On Saturday, Biden was joined in the Michigan election campaign by his former boss, Barack Obama.
In Trump’s 2016 victory, he took advantage of low turnout rates among Michigan black voters. As Biden campaigns with the nation’s first black president, he clearly hopes to change that.
Biden, despite his more cautious and reserved campaign style, has recently pushed Trump back on traditionally conservative battlefields like Georgia and Texas.
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