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Donald Trump has criticized an FBI investigation after his supporters were accused of trying to pull a Joe Biden battle bus off the road as both politicians enter the final stretch of the election campaign.
Tensions escalated on the last day before Americans went to the polls when the US president dismissed an investigation into “patriots” who “did nothing wrong.”
Biden’s team said they were forced to call 911 when the caravan of Trump-flagged cars circled their bus and those in front tried to slow down to a stop in the middle of a Texas highway.
Biden said his opponent ‘is the virus’
The dispute escalated when the current Republican leader and his Democratic rival made their final appeals to voters in swing states.
With the polls open Tuesday morning, but a record number of Americans voting early or by mail, Trump is holding five events in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Trump will hold five events on Monday
Meanwhile, Biden is focusing his efforts on one event in Ohio and three in Pennsylvania, even employing the star power of Lady Gaga.
Attention is also focused on possible outcomes after Tuesday, with predictable scenarios released due to the coronavirus pandemic and a record number of early voters and mail-in ballots.
Trump’s strategy appears to be that if he sees good margins in the states early on, he will declare himself the winner, and if a large number of mail-in ballots supporting Biden threaten that advantage, then he will declare them illegitimate.
But in anticipation of more campaigning and legal action, Biden’s team sent Barack Obama to ask for last-minute donations to “make sure they can keep fighting after Election Day, if necessary.”
Barack Obama will be sent to Georgia and Florida
He’s also using the former president to drive engagement with events in two other crucial states: Georgia and Florida.
Looking to put COVID-19 And the death toll in the United States of more than 230,000, central to his campaign message, Biden said that to gain control of the pandemic voters had to expel Trump because “he is the virus.”
And continuing a line that has dominated the weekend, the former vice president addressed the video of Trump supporters surrounding his bus.
“We’ve never had anything like this, at least we’ve never had a president who thinks it’s a good thing,” he said during a campaign event.
There has been a record number of early voting
But Trump defended his supporters against the FBI investigation, saying the organization “should be investigating the terrorists, anarchists, and ANTIFA agitators, who are burning our Democratic-ruled cities and harming our people.”
He also revealed at a rally in Georgia that aides told him he didn’t have to visit the state, because “we’ve got it done” there.
Analysis: what the latest Trump and Biden campaign fails to say about their goals
By Greg Milam, US Correspondent
Donald Trump has dusted off his 2016 manual in the hope that it contains the secret of another election surprise.
Four years ago, a breathless sweep through changing states in the final days of the campaign reversed what the polls had said.
Trump believes the same is possible this year, and polls again show he is headed for defeat.
But they also show that the president has so far failed to get past the loud and enthusiastic loyalists at his rallies and attract voters in the middle. That could be decisive.
Joe Biden needs to rebuild the “blue wall” that Democrats in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin used to rely on to ensure that poll predictions come true.
His focus on places like Detroit, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh is an attempt to increase turnout among black voters that his campaign believes could lead him to gain traction.
Florida and Arizona are also targets for Biden: America’s “sun belt” and “rust belt” are where these elections will be won and lost.
