President Donald Trump voted for himself this Saturday in West Palm Beach, Florida, a city near his Mar-a-Lago mansion, which since 2019 has been legally registered as his home address.
"I voted for a guy named Trump," he
told questions from reporters who accompany him on campaign trips.
In addition to the president, who this Friday participated in two campaign rallies in the north and northwest of Florida, his predecessor in the White House, Barack Obama, will be in Florida today, who plans to participate in an event in Miami in support of the Democratic candidate Joe Biden, who was vice president during his tenure.
This is the first time Trump has voted in Florida since he changed his address from New York to Palm Beach
, a coastal city littered with mansions of the rich and famous.
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According to polls, Biden has a slim advantage over Trump in Florida
, less than he has nationally, but the president said today that he is doing "very well" in this state.
At the early voting center, a public library, supporters of the president, with flags and posters, greeted him with applause and cheers, but could hardly see him.
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Television cameras and photographers were unable to enter the voting room because it is prohibited by Florida law.
After voting, Trump resumed his campaign for other states, but Vice President Mike Pence, who this Saturday will speak at rallies in Lakeland and Tallahassee, the state capital, took the witness in Florida.
The RealCrearPolitics portal, which produces polling averages, gives the Democrat 8.1 points of difference over his Republican rival at the national level, but in Florida they are practically tied, in part due to the weight of the vote of Cubans and Venezuelans who support Trump for his heavy-handed policy against the governments of their respective countries.
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Florida is a coveted state in the presidential elections for being one of the most populated in the country
and therefore with the most voters, but also for the 29 votes of the Electoral College that receives the most voted in this territory.
The Electoral College is where the winner of the US presidential elections is decided, which may be a candidate with fewer votes at the polls than his rival but with more electoral votes, as happened with Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016.
At the same time it is a state without a fixed voting pattern.
In 2016 Trump won in Florida, although by only about 100,000 votes
, but in the two elections in which Obama participated, the most voted was the former president.
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The result is always very tight in this state, where there have also been notorious problems in the counting of votes, as happened in 2000 with George W. Bush and Al Gore as candidates.
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This year marked by the coronavirus pandemic and extreme polarization in politics, more than 4.7 million Floridians have voted by mail or early.
As of Friday, when the elections were 11 days away, 4,771,956 people had already voted
.
Of them, more than 3.38 million have voted by mail and 1.3 million in person previously, as Trump did today.
Among mail-order voters, those registered as Democrats outnumber those registered as Republicans by about 500,000, while in the early voting modality there are more Republicans (about 200,000 more) than Democrats.
With information from EFE.
