A handful of states to decide between Trump and Biden

Polls still put the incumbent behind his Democratic opponent, who maintains a considerable lead nationally.

But, as in the 2016 election, the ballot could again be played out in a few contested states, where tens of thousands of votes can decide the election.

However, in at least three of these states, Joe Biden's average advance is only 3 points: Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, the very ones that Trump had won in the snatch ago. four years.

The Democratic candidate also lost ground in three southern states, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina.

The gap also narrowed in Arizona.

While Trump retains a slight advantage in Ohio, he retreated in Texas and Iowa.

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With Minnesota and Nevada, where Biden has retained a clear superiority until recent days, these ten states are the subject of fierce competition.

Added to this political map are Maine and Nebraska, which have the particularity of dividing their voters according to the result, instead of attributing them all to the winner, as is the case everywhere else.

Uncommon energy

The two candidates have increased their trips to these key states in recent weeks, also mobilizing their wives, their running mates and even the spouses of the latter to cover as much ground as possible.

With unusual energy, Donald Trump sometimes holds two or three electoral rallies a day, often on the runway where

, the presidential apparatus,

has just landed

.

In each state, the speech is calibrated to appeal to a particular category of voters, identified as crucial, capable of tilting the result in one direction or another.

In Pennsylvania, without which his chances of victory would be very slim, Trump is repeating warnings against a Democratic candidate he accuses of wanting to ban the exploitation of shale gas by hydraulic fracturing, an activity on which many local jobs depend.

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He also tries to rally the female electorate of the suburbs, who had contributed to his election in 2016, but which seems, four years later, less enthusiastic towards him, explaining that he had saved their neighborhoods by suspending the construction of social housing.

, Trump had said during a rally, with that mixture of candor and cynicism that delights his supporters and ulcers his opponents.

On Monday, the president held three consecutive election rallies in that state.

he said.

In 2016, Trump narrowly won with less than 45,000 votes.

Obama mobilizes in Florida

Joe Biden, who has long preferred to avoid crowd gatherings for health reasons, attracting mockery from Trump, who presents him as

, has also been to this meeting several times. Decisive state.

Biden said on Saturday, in suburban Philadelphia.

He then traveled to Luzerne County, one of the previously Democratic ridings that had swung in favor of Trump in 2016, allowing the Republican candidate to win the state, and the election.

Biden recalled that he was a native of Scranton, a city in the region, and had no intention of banning fracking except on federal lands.

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Unlike Trump's, where virtually no prophylactic action is taken, Democratic election rallies often take place in parking lots, with audiences staying inside cars to minimize the risk of contagion.

," Biden told the audience.

In Florida, another key state that has voted for the winner in almost every election for twenty years, the Democrats mobilized Barack Obama.

In front of the cars of the public, the former president attacked his successor:

As a sign that Trump is closely following his opponents' campaign, the president almost immediately commented on Obama's speech with a message on Twitter: