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Harry dempsey
Pinellas County in Florida, along the Gulf Coast west of Tampa, is a particularly accurate political benchmark: it has reliably chosen the winner of every presidential election since 1980, with the exception of George W Bush in 2000. , writes James politi.
Four years ago, Donald Trump won it by just over 1 percentage point. With Florida extremely close this year, Joe Biden will likely have to show solid earnings in Pinellas, rather than just flip it, to prevail in the rest of the state.
According to the latest survey average from Realclearpolitics.com, Florida is still up for grabs, with Biden leading by just 0.9 percentage points.
On the eve of the election, former President Barack Obama speaks at a rally, campaigning for Joe Biden in Miami, Florida.
There have been some signs that voter dissatisfaction with the economy is combining with Biden’s national gains among seniors, women and young people to give the Democrat an advantage in Pinellas.
Trump’s most valuable weapon on the road to a second term, his economic administration, has been tempered by the recession that gripped America this year, pushing the overall US unemployment rate up the second. World War.
In Florida, the political struggle for the economy has been particularly stark because the state relies heavily on services such as leisure, tourism and hospitality, which were hit by early closures and the second peak of infections in the summer.
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