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Trump and Biden multiply their actions in a climate of high tension

2020-10-31T01:15:40.623Z


The Democratic candidate reaches the home stretch with a comfortable lead in the polls of nearly eight points over the president, according to the national poll average.


The presidential candidates of the United States, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, have launched a

final

sprint

three days before the elections with multiple campaign events in a climate of great tension.

Businesses in large cities are bricking up their shop windows and residential buildings are hiring private security services in fear of riots on November 3.

The large chain of hypermarkets Walmart has removed weapons and ammunition from its shelves.

Americans are called to the polls, in addition, in the midst of the rebound of the pandemic.

Biden enters the home stretch with a comfortable lead in the polls of nearly eight points over President Donald Trump, according to the average of Real Clear Politics national polls, but the memory of 2016 is very present in the ranks of the Democratic Party. and their agenda, so far low profile due to the precautions required by the coronavirus, is going to overturn in the places where they crashed four years ago.

The candidate had planned to visit only this Friday Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, crossing with his rival in two states, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Trump is also in Michigan, and Biden will be hot on his heels there on Saturday.

It's an eloquent sign of what your data teams see at stake these days.

These states lean, according to polls, towards the Democratic candidate, but Biden has decided not to exclude any of them so as not to discourage his voters.

"I'm not super sure of anything, I just want to make sure I have all the possible votes," he told the press.

The flood of early voting by mail makes it possible for the total vote count to be delayed and, also, that the first results known during the early morning can be corrected days later.

That uncertainty, in a highly polarized country and with a president stirring up the specter of electoral fraud, is dynamite.

After a summer marked by the wave of racial protests with serious vandalism episodes, the streets of many cities have once again bricked up their windows.

Walmart made the decision to remove the weapons from its shelves, for the second time in recent months, after one of its stores was looted in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) in full mobilization for the death of an African American at the hands of the police.

"We have seen isolated riots and, as we have done on several occasions in recent years, we have removed the guns and ammunition from the store as a precaution for the safety of our employees and customers," a spokesperson told

The Wall Street Journal.

.

Nearly 86 million Americans have already cast their vote, 62% of all votes that were tallied in 2016, but the White House hopefuls are going to fight to the end for those who are missing.

Biden will accompany former President Barack Obama to two rallies in Detroit and Flint in Michigan over the weekend.

Democrats seek to regain the state after Trump won there by a tiny margin in 2016 - just over 10,000 votes.

Biden's campaign has found that part of that defeat was due to candidate Hillary Clinton giving up on seeking the African American vote.

Now, according to polls, the Democrat has an advantage of almost six points.

Obama gets involved

This Saturday will be the first time that Obama and Biden campaign together.

The former president tried to stay away from the promotion of the Democratic candidate at the beginning of this year, but since the summer he has taken a more relevant role in the campaign, first, with powerful speeches and, for two weeks, he has traveled the hinge states to ask voting for Biden and attacking without any restriction the current occupant of the White House.

The reinforcements are also in the south of the country, where the Democratic vice presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, will tour three cities in Texas - Houston, Fort Worth and McAllen - a traditionally Republican state but that, in some polls, has shown her preference for the Democratic candidate.

In the southern state, more than nine million people have voted by mail or in person in advance, a figure already higher than all the votes cast in the 2016 elections.

Trump is looking to Michigan to preserve the vote in residential areas and disrupt the places where Biden has been confident.

His campaign team acknowledged this Friday that the president will not hold a party on Election Day at the Trump Hotel, in downtown Washington, as he had initially announced.

“November 3 will go down in history as the night we won FOUR MORE YEARS.

It will be absolutely EPIC, and the only thing that could make it better is having YOU there, "read a request from the president in an email that included a picture of Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, under the phrase" Join us on the night of elections".

Trump explained to the press that he has canceled the party due to the restrictions that the District of Columbia City Council maintains due to the advance of the coronavirus.

"Washington DC is closed, it's crazy," he told reporters.

In the capital of the United States, the capacity allowed in restaurants is 50% and the use of a mask is mandatory.

Trump has commented that he is likely to await the results of election night at the White House, which is also interpreted as a sign that, at least that night, he may not expect to celebrate anything.

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