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WASHINGTON, Michigan: Two days before Election Day, President Donald Trump launched a campaign on Sunday (November 1) across America’s battle states, beginning with a cold outdoor rally in Michigan, a crucial status to your electoral chances as you seek to challenge the polls. and fending off Democratic challenger Joe Biden.
Trump, aiming to avoid becoming the first sitting president to lose a re-election bid since fellow Republican George HW Bush in 1992, has a hectic schedule for Sunday, with stops also planned in Iowa, North Carolina. Georgia and Florida. Biden must campaign in Pennsylvania.
Hit by flurries of snow in Washington, a city north of Detroit, Trump sported his red cap with the words “Make America Great Again” as he addressed a bustling crowd on a cold and stormy morning.
After the crowd chanted loudly, “We love you,” Trump replied, “I love you too. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t be standing here because it’s so cold in here.”
Trump predicted he would repeat his 2016 victory in Michigan and touted his efforts to create auto jobs, a key issue for the state of car manufacturing.
“We brought back his auto industry. His auto industry was done. He would have had nothing left,” Trump said.
Biden has maintained a consistent lead in national opinion polls, as a coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 230,000 Americans and hit the economy has weighed on the Trump campaign. The former vice president was 51-43% ahead in the latest Reuters / Ipsos poll, conducted October 27-29.
Polls show Trump is still close in enough battlefield states that could give him the 270 votes needed to win the Electoral College state-by-state that determines the overall victor.
The race remains a setback in Florida, North Carolina and Arizona, Reuters / Ipsos polls showed, while Trump lags behind by 5 percentage points in Pennsylvania and 9 percentage points in Michigan and Wisconsin.
In his 2016 victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton, the real estate developer and reality TV personality turned politician took over Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, as well as Michigan, states that for decades had been in the Democratic column.
“You better get out there and vote,” Trump told the crowd.
Anita Dunn, Biden’s campaign advisor, said on CNN’s State of the Union show: “We feel safe where we are.” The Democratic governors of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin said they were optimistic about Biden’s chances in their states. The Republican governor of Ohio predicted that Trump would win the state by a couple of percentage points.
Biden is scheduled to campaign again Sunday and Monday in Pennsylvania, the state where he was born, with events in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Biden also added a stop in Ohio on Monday, indicating his campaign believes that state is winnable.
Trump is scheduled for stage 10 rallies, five a day, on Sunday and Monday, the busiest stretch of the campaign, and Monday appearances are planned in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.
In dealing with familiar issues, Trump described himself as one who stood up to “a corrupt politician” and “a fool and a half” in Biden, as well as a “leftist mob” and “maniacs” Democrats.
CLOSE RACE IN TEXAS
The contest has turned out unexpectedly close in Texas, typically a trustworthy Republican state.
On Monday, in response to a lawsuit brought by plaintiffs, including a conservative activist and a Republican state lawmaker, a federal judge in Houston will hold an emergency hearing on whether Harris County officials illegally allowed direct voting during the pandemic. and they should cast more than 100,000 votes in the Democratic trend area.
After a caravan of Trump campaign flagged vehicles surrounded a Biden campaign bus carrying campaign personnel on a Texas highway on Friday, Trump retweeted a video of the incident Saturday and wrote: “I LOVE TEXAS! ” The Biden campaign said it canceled two events after the incident.
Biden began his day at a church in his home state of Delaware. When she walked in, anti-abortion and pro-Trump protesters told her to repent for the sake of the soul of her late son who is buried in the church.
A record 93 million early votes have been cast in person or by mail, according to the US Elections Project, a phenomenon that is expected to increase Biden’s chances.
Trump has made unsubstantiated claims that mail-in ballots, a common feature in American elections, are riddled with fraud and has refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power if the results show he has lost. Trump’s campaign adviser, Jason Miller, told ABC’s This Week that the president is relying on voting in person on Tuesday to push the president to the top.
Miller also questioned the integrity of the election, saying, “If you talk to a lot of smart Democrats, they think President Trump will be ahead on Election night, probably getting 280 electoral (votes), somewhere in that range. And then they go to try to get it back after the elections. “