Anisa Sadat
November 2, 2020, 11:00 AM EST
Washington (Kavian Press)-Tomorrow is Election Day in the U.S. while more than 90 million or the two third of the eligible voters have already casted their votes.
To sway the voters in the last remaining hours, both candidates vigorously campaign in key swing states. Biden will campaign today in Ohio — a late addition to his target list — and Pennsylvania, the state of his birth that could be the tipping point if the election is close.
Trump will stop through North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania in a last-ditch effort to save states he won four years ago and block Biden’s route to the White House.
Last week both candidates heavily campaigned in Florida and Pennsylvania both key states Trump won in 2016. Trump won Pennsylvania by 45,000 votes and Florida by a very narrow margin of 1.2%. Trump’s win in 2016 mainly came from senior voters and low voters turnout among young and African-American voters.
In this election the majority of the seniors are not happy with Trump’s performance in regards to Covid-19 and Biden team hopes more seniors vote for Joe Biden in this election.
In Philadelphia where Joe Biden had a rally yesterday the voter registration among young voters are 35 years high and Biden’s running mate Kamala Harriss will campaign in the city today to energize those young and black voters.
Path to victory for both candidates
Joe Biden the Democratic nominee heads into the final day of campaigning with a big lead in national polls and ahead in sufficient swing states to allow multiple routes to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House.
“We feel very confident about our pathways to victory,” Biden senior adviser Anita Dunn told CNN on Sunday. Biden is hoping that wins in states like Arizona, Florida, Georgia or North Carolina could send an early signal on Tuesday night that he is heading for victory.
Trump, while trailing Biden, also has a clear, if narrower, chance to get to 270 electoral votes if he wins those battlegrounds he won four years ago with what his campaign promises will be a huge Election Day turnout. The President must win states like Florida, Georgia or North Carolina and then must battle Biden in the Midwest — the decisive territory in his victory over Hillary Clinton, where he is struggling by comparison four years later. Still, the President is within striking distance in some swing state polls and Democrats are haunted by the idea that he could yet again defy expectations and pull off a stunning Election Day comeback.
Election related news
At a rally in Florida on Sunday night, Trump implied to his rally attendees that he is going to fired Dr. Fauci after the election.
Dr. Fauci has been the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984. He is respected all over the world and played a major role in the fight against HIV/AIDS and Ebola.
Reports of delays in the delivery of mail-in votes in several crucial battleground states has increased anxiety over the possibility of prolonged legal battle between the campaigns if there is no clear winner soon after the election.
In the state of Texas, the state Supreme Court denied a petition by a group of Republicans seeking to invalidate nearly 127,000 ballots cast at drive-thru facilities in Harris County, a heavily Democratic area. Republicans have also filed suit in federal court, which will have an emergency hearing this morning.
The FBI has meanwhile opened investigation into a caravan of vehicles driven by Trump supporters allegedly harassing a Biden-Harris campaign bus in Texas.
The final message of the both candidates
As the last days of the campign coming to an end, both condicates tries to sway voters with last pitches and messages clear to their supporters by now.
Biden on Sunday sought to convince Black voters, who are historically more likely to vote on Election Day, to show up in the numbers he needs in cities and suburbs to make up for Trump’s dominance of the rural heartland.
He called out disparities in the impact of the coroanvirus on minorities and, in the cradle of the American experiment, he painted Trump as a threat to basic American freedoms.
“Every generation has to fight to keep the democracy. I never believed we’d have to fight this hard though,” Biden said.
His running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris of California, traveled to North Carolina and Georgia, two states where Democrats believe they can win partly based on a strong turnout of African American voters.
“Let’s not ever let anyone take our power from us. Let us not be sidelined, let us not be silent, there is too much at stake and the ancestors expect so much more from us than that,” Harris said in North Carolina.
President Trump on the other hand added to fears of a disputed election by again casting suspicion on the perfectly normal practice of vote counts continuing after election night — a likely occurrence this year since some states can’t even start counting the torrent of mail-in ballots until Election Day.
