10/24/2020 4:58 PM
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Updated 10/24/2020 4:58 PM
President Donald Trump cast his early vote this Saturday at a polling station in West Palm Beach, Florida, at the start of another busy campaign day, 10 days before the US presidential election.
The Republican president, who is fighting his re-election with Democrat Joe Biden, went to a library authorized to vote near his property in Mar-a-Lago, in the state to which he changed his tax residence from his native New York, where he was booed four years ago to vote.
"I voted for a guy named Trump," he smiled as he left.
Almost 55 million Americans have already cast their early vote
, in an election conditioned by the coronavirus pandemic.
When casting the vote, Trump wore a chinstrap, something that the president rarely does, who has downplayed the virus since the start of the health crisis and has even become infected.
Supporters of Donald Trump, this Saturday, during a campaign event in Lumberton, North Carolina.
Photo: AFP
"It was a very safe vote. Much safer than when you cast a ballot, I can tell you that," said Trump, who insists without giving evidence that voting by mail leads to fraud.
"Everything was perfect, very strict, according to the rules. When you send your ballot, it could never be as safe as this," added the president, who makes
a frantic last-minute effort to catch up with Biden
in the final stretch of the race .
Dozens of supporters rallied Saturday morning to support him in Florida.
The agenda for the day included
campaign events in North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin, key states to retain the presidency.
"They are going to be very busy today, because we are going to work hard," Trump told reporters who accompany him in covering the campaign.
On Sunday he planned to be in New Hampshire.
Despite the confidence shown by the tenant of the White House, the coronavirus is more present than ever as one of the main weaknesses in his government balance, with more than 224,000 deaths in the country.
Record of coronavirus infections
The United States broke a new record for infections
in 24 hours
on Friday
, with approximately 80,000 new cases detected.
"This is Trump's presidency," Democrat Joe Biden said Saturday morning in his home state of Pennsylvania, whose vote will be particularly anticipated in November, following Trump's surprise victory in 2016, the first by a Republican candidate. since 1988 in the state.
"Yesterday was the worst day we've ever had, but in the debate on Thursday night Donald Trump said, and continues to say, that we are at the end of the tunnel, that (the virus) is going to go away and we are going to learn to live with that, "Biden said.
An act of support for Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris, this Saturday in Miami, Florida.
Photo: AP
"I told him that we are not learning to live with it. He is asking us to learn to die with it, and it is wrong," he added, on a stage decorated with Halloween pumpkins in front of his supporters.
The 77-year-old Democratic candidate is often mocked by the Republican mogul because of his much calmer campaign pace and his respect for health recommendations that has set him apart from the crowds.
"How can we do five a day? Who else can do five a day? Do you think Joe Biden can do five a day? I don't think so," Trump told reporters Friday night aboard the presidential plane, Air Force One.
But the former vice president of Barack Obama has the support of the former president, still very popular among Democrats, who was planning an event in Miami, Florida, another key state that in the past won twice, in 2008 and 2012.
Another Democratic figure, Senator Bernie Sanders, Biden's former primary rival and still very popular with the party's left wing, was also preparing to campaign in Pennsylvania.
Despite the polls, which still give Biden an average of 8 percentage points nationally,
Trump remains optimistic, and appears to be recovering slightly in Florida
, among the hinge states that will define the election.
"We are not late, we are ahead. We are ahead of where we were four years ago and the wave will be even higher than four years ago," Trump said Friday night.
Source: AFP
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