2020 U.S. election: Trump and Biden grieve in battle state of Florida

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, and the Democratic rival Joe Biden had duels in the state that played a key role in the elections, Florida.

Biden told his supporter: “You are in power. If Florida turns green [Đảng Dân chủ], the election ends “

Celebrating the rebound in economic figures, Republican Trump said of his rival: “He’s going to lock you up.”

With just five days to go on Election Day, Biden took a consistent lead across the country in public opinion polls.

But his advantage seems less certain in battle states like Florida that will ultimately decide who will enter the White House.

More than 81 million people voted, 52 million of whom voted by mail, setting the record for the highest turnout rate in more than a century in the United States.

At Thursday’s rally in Tampa, Trump unveiled a new federal forecast that the U.S. economy rebounded to an unprecedented 33.1% annual rate in the most recent quarter, following a sharp decline. record 31% in the previous three months due to the coronavirus.

Florida was a must-win for Trump and a key poll found that Trump was just 1.4 points behind Biden, showing close chase.

At a 100-minute outdoor rally, Trump told thousands of people, many of whom crowded without a mask: “Joe Biden’s plan is to block punishment. He will. Lock you up.”

“Look, they compare us to Europe,” said the president. “‘Germany is doing very well, France is doing very well, people are doing very well.” No, they are not doing well. “

Emphasizing Europeans as allies, he went on to say: “The number of infections is increasing, they are closing, they are blocking.

“I do not agree because we will never close again. We are closed, we understand the disease and now we are reopening.”

The president was introduced by first lady Melania Trump, a rare incident in this campaign. He received his greatest recognition by saying, “We are a country of hope, not a country of fear and weakness, and we have a leader who proves it every day. “

Trump was expected to go to another key state like North Carolina on Thursday night, but that event in Fayetteville was canceled due to severe weather from Tropical Storm Zeta in the region.

According to the report, the storm disrupted early voting on another electoral battleground, Georgia, causing power outages in some constituencies and the spilling of trees that blocked mobile polling stations.

Trump, who opened this month with hospitalization for the corona virus, is visiting 10 states in the final week of the campaign and will hold 11 rallies over the past two days, a Saber official said.

The president hopes that the media coverage of his rallies will cover the deficit in advertising spending, as his campaign funds are currently limited.

In Florida alone, according to online advertising statistics firm Kantar / CMAG, Biden and his allies spent three times as much money as Trump.

But in a possible endorsement of Trump, on Thursday he got a rare consensus from an African-American celebrity, rapper Lil Wayne, who appeared to back him.

In his 23-minute appearance, Biden spoke at a car rally at a university in Broward County, north of Miami, on Thursday.

“I lost the opportunity to shake hands with everyone, but we decided a while ago that we would try to be responsible,” he said.

He thanked the attendees, many of whom were sitting in their cars to prevent the spread of Covid-19, because they wore masks and exercised social distancing.

Biden dismissed Trump’s rally on the other side of the subcommittee, saying it was a “super contagious” event.

“Donald Trump surrendered before the corona virus pandemic. The United States is now witnessing a record rate of infections and nearly nine million confirmed infections,” he said.

Mr. Biden urged the issuance of a mask nationwide, emphasizing: “This is not a political statement, but a patriotic responsibility, for God’s sake!”

Democrats have said that Biden will not shut down the country if he becomes president, although he did not rule it out during a presidential debate last week.

Mr. Biden describes his opponent as “someone who knows that the only way to win is by dividing us by race, nationality, origin, gender.”

And he added: “Listen, everyone knows who Donald Trump is. We have to show him who we are.”

Biden also directly persuaded Hispanic voters, as polls showed Trump to be pro-Latinos, a key voting bloc in Florida and other battlefield states like Nevada.

“President Trump cannot promote democracy and human rights for the Cuban people or the Venezuelan people, as he praised so many autocrats around the world,” Biden said.

Trump responded quickly on Twitter, saying, “Our opponents want to turn the United States into Cuban communism or Venezuelan socialism.”

On Friday, the two opponents will hold another ‘glove’ rally, this time in Minnesota. It’s one of the few Midwestern states that voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, and the president hopes to turn things around this time.

Biden will also campaign in Wisconsin and Iowa on Friday. On Saturday, he will hold a joint rally in Michigan with former United States President Barack Obama, who elected Biden as vice president during his term.