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Fourteen days after the presidential elections, the panorama has not changed in the essential aspect since this
unusual electoral race
began
in the United States.
Joe Biden, the candidate of the Democratic Party, continues to have a clear advantage in the polls heading into the
November 3 elections
, ahead in all the states that seem key to determining the winner.
President Donald Trump knows this and has not wasted a minute since he overcame his convalescence after testing positive for coronavirus.
He is
campaigning with virulence, attacking his political rival and all those who contradict his management of the pandemic and the battered national economy
, forced to reverse a situation that seems even more complex than the one he overcame in 2016.
His urgency is palpable in the
incendiary rhetoric
that made him infamous four years ago and that has returned with more intensity to this campaign.
Then he said that Mexicans were criminals and rapists, except for a few who assumed "they were good people", and that the hatred of Muslims towards the US was "beyond comprehension", among other pearls to remember.
Now, with
polls pointing more than eight points behind Biden
, he appears to have redoubled his bet on the offensive and cocky style.
On Monday, already fully involved in the campaign, he called CNN journalists from Tucson, Arizona, "stupid bastards" for
obsessively covering the pandemic, in his own words
, upset by a health crisis that has already developed. claimed more than 220,000 deaths throughout the country and could well cost him reelection.
Earlier, in
a call with campaign personnel that ended up leaking
to the media, he showed his fatigue with the coronavirus.
"People are fed up with the covid. I have the biggest rallies I have ever had and there is covid. People are saying what does it matter, leave us alone," he
said, ignoring the notable rise in cases, again, in various parts of the country.
"We're fed up. People are sick of listening to [Anthony] Fauci and all those idiots," referring to the head of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases who has led the crisis.
He pointed out that had he heeded his recommendations, the deaths would have been half a million and not 220,000.
Later, at a rally in the town of Muskegon, Michigan, he was even more belligerent in his way of asking the state authorities to
reopen schools and businesses despite the pandemic
.
He joined the chant of his followers by calling for "Lock them all up", days after the FBI arrested 14 men related to the plan to kidnap and murder the governor of Michigan, the Democrat Gretchen Whitmer.
"Are you not ashamed?" Asked Don Lemon, one of CNN's star journalists, as he reviewed Trump's comments on a single campaign day.
Below Biden in key states
Many analysts are convinced that not even his inflammatory speech can save him from defeat.
In
Michigan,
his disadvantage is 7.3 points on average in all polls, according to the
Real Clear Politics
portal
, a region that Trump took by a very narrow margin in 2016: just over 10,000 votes.
Nor does the numbers in
Florida
(+1 for Biden),
Wisconsin
(+6.2),
North Carolina
(+2.0),
Pennsylvania
(+3.8) and
Arizona
(+3.1) favor him.
Only in
Ohio
does he lead by 0.2 points.
The battle in that State seems exciting.
The plan for today was to visit
Pennsylvania, a state that fell to Trump's side in 2016
by 44,000 votes and is now uphill.
Barack Obama won it in 2012 with a 5.3% margin and Biden could achieve the same.
Polls by
The New York Times
give him up to an 8-point lead in his home state, a territory he has visited during the campaign and in which he is confident of convincing the working class with his economic and social plan for the next four years. .
Trump was scheduled to land in Erie overnight with his wife, Melania Trump.
However, the First Lady decided to
cancel her appearance hours earlier due to a persistent cough
, according to official sources.
Trump himself reported last week that his wife had tested negative for the last coronavirus test after being infected with her husband and son, Barron.
His public appearances so far have been rare.
Biden will also not be seen in any campaign event
until Thursday's debate with Trump, the second and last scheduled.
It will be in Nashville, Tennessee, and will have new rules regarding the one that both candidates starred in in Cleveland.
The
adversary's microphone will be
turned
off during speaking turns to avoid interruptions
and repeat the chaos that was formed during the first debate.
ENTHUSIASM FOR EARLY VOTING
Trump will set foot in Pennsylvania hours after the Supreme Court ruling, which ruled in favor of
allowing mail-in votes to be counted up to three days after November 3
.
The justices of the Supreme Court cited the pandemic and problems with the mail as the main arguments, in a move that clearly favors the Democrats, a party that far exceeds the Republicans in the request for votes by mail.
According to the attorney general of Pennsylvania,
Josh Shapiro
, a million votes have already been counted, satisfied by the Supreme Court's decision and contrary to the interests of
Trump, who has been talking for weeks about electoral fraud for votes that have appeared thrown in rivers and other parts of the country, without any evidence
that this actually happened.
Despite Republicans' efforts to boycott the process, enthusiasm for early voting is palpable from coast to coast.
According to the
US Elections Project
,
more than 26 million people had voted as of Saturday
, an absolute record and more than six times the number of votes received at this point in 2016.
The
electoral authorities have confirmed that they are not having major problems at the moment
and that, as expected, the Democrats are clearly dominating the vote by mail.
Data from the
TargetSmart
firm
speak of a 53% blue vote compared to 36% of Republicans, in addition to a
strong participation of African Americans
-six times higher than 2016- and of
voters over 50 years old
, who represent 70% of the ballots sent so far.
The pandemic is changing the face of these momentous elections a lot.
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