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WARM SPRINGS, Georgia: Joe Biden flayed US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (October 27) accusing his rival of surrendering to a growing pandemic, as the Democrat led his campaign to the Republican stronghold of Georgia a week earlier. of the American elections.
While the former vice president committed an electoral crime, seeking to expand the campaign map and his path to state-by-state victory on Nov. 3, Trump swept the Midwest in a last-ditch attempt to prop up the states that voted for him in 2016. But what the polls show are tilting Biden’s path.
And with the campaign winding down to its last days, Biden chose one of his top replacements, popular former President Barack Obama, to make a final argument for Democrats in Florida, a decisive state that Trump must win if he wants to defy the odds. and get reelection.
Biden, buoyed by poll numbers showing him leading the incumbent, delved into Trump’s handling of the coronavirus, reminding voters that Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows admitted over the weekend that “we are not going to control the pandemic. “
Biden, speaking in Warm Springs, Georgia, called the response “a capitulation” by a White House that “never really tried” to stop a pandemic that has now killed more than 226,000 Americans.
People listen during a drive-in by Democratic presidential nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, at the Cellairis Amphitheater in Atlanta, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020 (AP Photo / Andrew Harnik).
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Instead of acting like wartime president to fight COVID-19 as promised, Trump “shrugged, strutted, and gave up,” Biden said.
“I am here to tell you: we can and will control this virus,” he added.
“If you will give me the honor of serving as your president, clear the ground for action,” he said. “Because we will act … on the first day of my presidency to have COVID under control.”
Supporters of President Donald Trump view a video during a campaign event Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020, in Lansing, Michigan. (Nicole Hester / Mlive.com / Ann Arbor News via AP)
‘WORKING MY ASS’
Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by five points in Georgia in 2016, but polls have the 74-year-old running side by side with Biden in Peach State.
Georgia last voted for a Democrat for president nearly three decades ago, Bill Clinton in 1992, but the Biden campaign has high hopes of changing the state and also winning its two United States Senate seats that are up for grabs. .
Biden, 77, held a drive-in in Atlanta, Georgia’s largest city, where he repeated some of the same attacks on Trump, but also urged voters to recognize how vital the state is all of a sudden to winning the White House.
“We won Georgia, we won everything!” Biden said, raising his voice. “These are the last days, so keep that sense of empowerment with you, that sense of optimism.”
President Donald Trump gestures to supporters after speaking during a campaign rally at MotorSports Management Company, Tuesday, Oct.27, 2020, in West Salem, Wisconsin. (AP Photo / Evan Vucci)
Meanwhile, Trump kept up his frantic campaign pace, holding an outdoor rally in Michigan followed by two events in Wisconsin.
Both are battlegrounds in the Midwest that he won by very narrow margins four years ago, but Trump insisted that “we are leading almost everywhere” thanks to his hectic campaign schedule.
“I have to say, I’m working hard here!” thundered in Lansing, Michigan, eliciting a standing ovation.
Supporters cheer for President Donald Trump at a rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania. (Photo: AFP / Saul Loeb)
Trump also said his anti-pandemic policies and economic skills would serve the nation better than Biden.
“This election is a choice between a Trump super recovery or a Biden slump,” he said.
But with COVID-19 cases on the rise in several states and with no agreement yet on a pandemic rescue package in Congress, U.S. stocks fell for the third straight session on Tuesday.
Later in Wisconsin, Trump warned Americans that they should not “let this radical socialist group take over” with Biden as president.
“You will see a giant red wave on Tuesday,” he said.
Former United States President Barack Obama has campaigned for Democratic candidate Joe Biden on multiple occasions in the weeks leading up to the election, including in Orlando, Florida, on October 27, 2020 (Photo: AFP / Ricardo Arduengo) .
‘BRING HOME’
Election tracking website RealClearPolitics saw Biden rise 7.4 points in an average of national polls, a slight drop from a few days ago.
He also leads Trump by nine points in Michigan, and in Wisconsin he is up an average of 5.5 points.
With Biden keeping a tighter campaign schedule instead of hosting what he called Trump’s “super broadcast” events, he sent Obama to Florida, where the race is on the razor’s edge.
“One week until the most important election of our lives,” Obama told a crowd honking from their cars at a rally in Orlando.
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He brought a harsh indictment against Trump, accusing him of incompetence, repeated lies, embracing dictators and ignoring the pandemic.
But he also offered a compelling assessment of how apathy in 2016 may have cost Democrats the election, urging them to make a plan and vote early.
“We were complacent last time. People got a little lazy, people took things for granted and look what happened,” Obama said.
“Not this time,” he said. “Let’s take him home.”
First Lady Melania Trump speaks during a campaign rally on October 27, 2020 in Atglen, Pennsylvania. (Photo: AP / Laurence Kesterson)
With Trump in the Midwest, First Lady Melania Trump came to meetings for the first time this year.
“Donald is a fighter,” she told Trump supporters in Pennsylvania, before resorting to her husband’s rabid use of Twitter.
“I don’t always agree with the way he says things,” he laughed. “But it’s important to him to speak directly to the people he serves.”
