"I voted for a guy called Trump."
Here is what the Republican candidate said Saturday, October 24, after having voted in advance in Florida ten days before the US presidential election.
"It was a very safe vote, much safer than when you send your ballot in the mail," added Donald Trump.
The American president regularly raises, without proof, the threat of massive fraud concerning the vote by mail.
Like more than 55 million voters who have already voted early before the November 3 poll, the billionaire fulfilled his civic duty from a library in West Palm Beach, near his property in Mar-a-Lago, his residence tax since leaving New York, where he was booed four years ago when it came time to vote.
In Florida, dozens of supporters gathered Saturday morning to support him.
Donald Trump, who has resumed the campaign at a breakneck pace since being released from the hospital where he stayed for three nights following his Covid-19 infection, then arrived in North Carolina before traveling to the Ohio and Wisconsin, then Sunday in New Hampshire.
"You are going to be very busy today, we are going to make you work very hard," said the president-candidate, left behind by Joe Biden in the polls, to journalists before leaving the polling station.
But despite the displayed confidence of the current tenant of the White House, the coronavirus appears more than ever as one of the main weaknesses of its record with more than 220,000 dead in the country.
The United States broke a new 24-hour contamination record on Friday, with around 80,000 new cases detected.
"This is the Trump presidency," Democrat Joe Biden said Saturday morning from his native Pennsylvania, whose vote will be particularly eagerly awaited in November, after Donald Trump's surprise victory in 2016, a first since 1988 for a Republican in this state of blue collar workers in the east of the country.
Obama and Sanders support for Biden
"Yesterday (Friday) was the worst day we have had, but again Thursday evening, during the debate, Donald Trump said and continues to say that we are at the end of the tunnel, that (the virus) is going and that we are going to learn to live with it. I told him that we do not learn to live with it, but that he asks us to die with it, "said Joe Biden on a stage decorated with Halloween pumpkins in front of the followers who came by car. .
Joe Biden, 77, is often the target of the Republican billionaire's taunts, due to the much calmer pace of his campaign and his adherence to health recommendations, which deprives him of contact with the crowds.
The former businessman has thus promised to further accelerate the pace in the home stretch by going to five meetings a day.
"How can we do five a day? Who else can do five a day? Do you think Joe Biden can do five a day? I don't think so," Donald Trump told reporters on board Friday night. the presidential plane Air Force One.
But the former vice-president of Barack Obama can count on the support of the latter, still very popular among the Democrats.
Another big Democrat name, Senator Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden's former primary opponent and still very popular with the left wing, was also campaigning in Pennsylvania.
"We have 10 days left, and it might play out in Pennsylvania, and I believe in you! I believe in my state," said Joe Biden.
Despite the polls, which still give the Democrat an average eight point lead nationally, Donald Trump is still as optimistic.
The president seems to be benefiting from a slight thrill in Florida, a state he cannot afford to lose if he is to keep his chances of staying in the White House.
With AFP
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