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- US President Donald Trump delivered three campaign speeches in North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin on Saturday. Challenger Joe Biden made two appearances in Pennsylvania.
- These states could decide the outcome of the November 3 elections.
- Donald Trump has already cast his vote where he lives in Florida.
The final outbreak of the US election campaign is accompanied by a sharp increase in corona cases. A record was set with more than 83,000 new infections in one day. More than 900 Americans died and the total death toll exceeded 224,000. Trump, who many poll voters don’t trust to tame the crown crisis, consistently downplays the pandemic.
Trump: higher numbers due to increased testing
“I had it, here I am,” Trump announced, alluding to his Covid 19 disease in one of the campaign appearances. “And now they say I am immune.” Trump had been treated, among other things, with a still experimental antibody drug, which he called a “cure.”
In each of the appearances, she also said that her 14-year-old son Barron had been declared healthy by doctors shortly after testing positive. In all three speeches, Trump gave three variations on how fast he was: after 15 seconds, after 15 minutes, and the next day.
Trump attributed the rise in corona infections in the country to the fact that more tests were conducted than before. “If we analyzed half, the number would be half.” In general, the virus is constantly talked about in the media. “If you turn on the television: Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid,” the president complained.
“A plane crashes, 500 people die, they don’t talk about it. Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid. “After the presidential elections, he won’t find out because the media just wanted to scare people now, Trump said. Thousands of supporters flocked to his performances, many of them without masks.
Biden warns of a “bleak winter”
Biden again accused Trump of failing in the crown crisis that cost Americans their lives. He asked people to wear masks. “It will be a dark winter if we don’t change our behavior,” he stressed. “And all because the president is more concerned about the stock market than about you,” Biden told voters.
Unlike Trump, Biden spoke in front of people who attended election campaign events with their vehicles like in a drive-in movie theater. They expressed their approval with a concert of horns. In one of the performances, rock star Jon Bon Jovi gave a mini concert. A new Biden commercial, which premiered on Saturday, was voiced by Hollywood actor Brad Pitt.
Queue in front of the polling station in New York City: In view of the crisis in the crown, many voters cast their votes early.
Reuters
Early voting has increased
So far, more than 50 million people have cast their vote at polling stations or by letter. In light of the crown crisis, more people than usual are taking the opportunity to vote early. After there were concerns in recent months that mailed ballots might not arrive in time, many people have to wait hours to vote in person, for example in New York, where polling stations were opened for early voting. Saturday.
