The president of the United States, Joe Biden, goes to vote in advance with his granddaughter Natalie Biden at his polling station in Wilmington, Delaware. TASOS KATOPODIS (AP)
Joe Biden has already voted.
This Saturday he took advantage of the fact that he was spending the weekend in the city where he is registered, Wilmington (Delaware), and went to the polling station.
Biden, who is about to turn 80, has gone to the polling station with his granddaughter Natalie, 18, who was voting for the first time.
In the electoral college, the president has once again pointed out those who deny the electoral results, the Trumpists, of generating violence.
The statements referred to the attack with a hammer on the husband of Nancy Pelosi, the president of the House of Representatives, at her home in San Francisco and follow the same line as those she made this Friday night at a campaign event in Pennsylvania. .
At the gates of the electoral college, Biden said: “It is one thing to condemn violence, but you cannot condemn violence if you do not condemn the people who argue that the elections are not real, that they were stolen and that they undermine democracy. ", has said.
“You have to stop talking.
That's the problem.
You cannot simply say: 'We are angry about the violence, we condemn it', we must condemn what produces the violence”, he added.
Without mentioning them, Biden was referring to former President Donald Trump and his supporters.
Trump has avoided condemning the attack on Pelosi's husband, who is recovering in a hospital, and has continued these days to spread his hoax that he won the 2020 elections. Most of the Republican candidates in the next elections have agreed to that speech, either out of conviction or out of fear of upsetting Trumpist voters.
Some have changed their criteria based on their electoral convenience.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, for example, won the Republican Party primary for senator from Pennsylvania over his rival Daviv McCormick, in part because McCormick did not agree with the hoax.
But now that he is appealing to centrist voters, Oz has moved on to acknowledge Biden's victory.
Former President Barack Obama has also spoken in the same vein at a rally this Saturday, pointing to those who have "demonized" Nancy Pelosi from the Republican side, creating a climate of rage that serves as a breeding ground for violence.
Early voting grows
The president has already gone to Wilmington to vote in the primary elections, but on that occasion it was questioned that he traveled expressly from the White House for that, mobilizing his security caravan and companions and flying on Air Force One, when he could have voted for advance or by mail.
This time, after going to see her granddaughter's hockey game, he went with her to vote.
Biden has voted electronically, through a tablet.
A member of the table has said: “Joseph Biden votes”.
Another member has corrected her, indicating that she should have said “the president votes”.
Biden replied: "Joe is enough for me."
More than 20.3 million citizens have already voted in advance or sent their vote by mail in the legislative elections whose official date is November 8, and in which the entire House of Representatives and a third of the Senate are renewed.
The figure is about 3.3 million more than 2020 voters for the same dates, according to data compiled by election expert John Couvillon.
Democratic voters are more likely to vote early.
Turnout is being particularly high in Georgia, one of the states in which control of the Senate is decided.
Biden has said that he feels good in relation to the electoral expectations of the Democrats in the United States elections, although the polls suggest that he will lose control of the House of Representatives and may also lose the Senate.
This Saturday and Sunday he has not starred in any campaign event, but he assures that he will do more in the final stretch.
“I am going to spend the rest of the time defending that this is not a referendum.
It is a choice.
A fundamental choice between two very different visions for the country”, he has said.
He has recalled that he has already been to 36 constituencies, although in almost none of them he has given a rally, but rather has starred in official or fundraising events for the Democratic Party.
Biden has announced that he will go to New Mexico, California and Maryland for the remainder of the campaign, but without explaining the nature of the events in which he will participate.
He has not mentioned Florida, where he does plan a rally on November 1.
Trump, on the other hand, gave his first rally in Pennsylvania in early September and has since staged mass events at a rate of one a week.
He now he plans to accelerate.
He will have a rally on November 3 in Iowa;
on November 5, in Pennsylvania;
on the 6th, in Florida, and on the 7th, the eve of the election, in Ohio.
Of these, the most disputed for control of the Senate is Pennsylvania.
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