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The last hour of the elections in the United States, live | Latinos' confidence in Biden grows, while Trump stagnates

2020-10-18T17:43:12.806Z


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The campaign intensifies in the Pendulum States less than three weeks before the November 3 elections.

The last stretch has focused on the states where President Donald Trump won in 2016 with little margin.

This Friday the president participated in an event in Florida, where some two million people have already sent their vote by mail 18 days after the presidential elections.

The figure is historic for a region that is decisive in the vote count.

Democrat Joe Biden has visited Michigan, a state that Trump narrowly took away four years ago.

The confidence of Latino voters in the Democratic candidate, especially regarding the pandemic, has been on the rise since June, while that deposited in President Donald Trump by the general voters has stagnated, according to an analysis by the renowned Pew Research Center.

16 days before the presidential elections and amid an upward trend in COVID-19 in the United States, "the majority of Hispanic voters continue to have grim views of the nation and its economy after months of widespread job losses" due to the pandemic.

In the Pew analysis, released this weekend and based on a survey of more than 11,000 registered Latino voters, two-thirds of those interviewed favor Biden's ability to handle health and economic issues even more than four months ago, taking decision-making and reduction of polarization.

Biden will visit Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), key in the November 3 elections and which gave Trump the victory in 2016. Former President Barack Obama has confirmed that he will hold a campaign event next Wednesday to support Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

18 days before the elections, he has already voted

15.6% of the total votes for the 2016 presidential elections. Both Texas and Georgia registered long lines of voters this week.

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