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NEW HAMPSHIRE: President Donald Trump will go on the offensive against Democratic rival Joe Biden on Sunday (October 25) with a campaign trip to New Hampshire, a state he narrowly lost in 2016 but is trying to regain in the race this year by the White House.
With nine days left before the November 3 US election, the Republican president fights his way through major battle states in a belated effort to regain ground against Biden, who leads national opinion polls.
Opinion polls in many of the major changing states that will decide the elections show a closer race. New Hampshire, which Trump lost to Democrat Hillary Clinton by about 3,000 votes in 2016, has not been considered a top-tier battlefield, and most polls show Biden with a comfortable lead in New England state.
But Trump is running out of time and opportunities to change his mind and turn the race in his favor.
More than 56.5 million Americans have already voted in person or by mail, a rate of early voting that could lead to the highest voter turnout rate in more than a century, according to data from the US Elections Project.
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After voting early in his home state of Florida on Saturday, Trump ran through rallies in three states, North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin, where he promised that an end to the coronavirus pandemic was in sight and said that Biden would threaten jobs by pushing for more COVID. -19 restrictions.
In Ohio, Trump said his campaign was working well and he was not concerned about public opinion polls. “We have 10 days and nothing worries me,” he said.
During his visit to New Hampshire, Trump will hold a rally in Manchester. He has suggested that he could hold five rallies a day down the stretch before the election.
Biden, who made two campaign stops in Pennsylvania on Saturday, does not have a public schedule for Sunday, although the former vice president often makes a trip to church.
During his time in Pennsylvania, Biden renewed his criticism of Trump for not taking the health crisis seriously enough and warned of a resurgence during the winter months of the virus, which has killed more than 224,000 Americans and is increasing in several states. battle.
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“It’s going to be a dark winter ahead unless we change our ways,” he said of Trump’s attempts to contain the coronavirus.
The United States set a single-day record of more than 84,000 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, and the spike in infections hit states in electoral transition Ohio, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania. and Wisconsin.
Late on Saturday, a spokesman for Vice President Mike Pence revealed that Marc Short, Pence’s chief of staff, had tested positive for the new coronavirus. Pence and his wife tested negative earlier in the day and the vice president will not alter his schedule, the spokesman said.
Concerns about the health risks of voting in crowded polling places on Election Day has helped fuel the stampede to vote, as many states have increased opportunities for early voting and vote-by-mail.
In New York State, voters packed polling places and lined up for hours to cast their ballot on the state’s first day of early voting on Saturday. Long lines formed before the polls opened in New York City and Long Island, videos were shown on social media.
