Trump begins last-minute campaign efforts in Michigan
Michigan is crucial to the outcome of the election
Two days prior to Election Day, President Donald Trump has started his campaign events across key battleground states beginning with the state of Michigan. As a swing state, Michigan is crucial to the outcome of the election.
According to Reuters, Trump does not want to become the first incumbent president to lose a re-election bid since Republican George H.W. Bush in 1992, and is intentionally working to avoid that fate.
The frenetic schedule started on Sunday and Trump has plans to visit Iowa, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida while Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden is due to campaign in Pennsylvania.
Trump faced a cheering crowd in the town of Washington, Michigan, which is north of Detroit. He was met with chants of “I love you.” Trump responded, “I love you, too! If I didn’t, I wouldn’t be standing here because it’s freezing out here.”
Trump faces “a narrow path to re-election” as Biden’s lead in the opinion polls has remained steady in recent months during the coronavirus pandemic, according to Reuters.
“Polls show him close to Biden in enough battleground states that could give him the 270 votes needed to win in the state-by-state Electoral College that determines the overall victor,” wrote Reuters.
The state of the race remains a toss-up in states such as Florida, North Carolina, and Arizona, according to Reuters/Ipsos polls as Trump trails by 5 percentage points in Pennsylvania and 9 percentage points in both Michigan and Wisconsin.
A record-setting 93 million early votes were cast across the county either in-person or by mail, according to the U.S. Elections Project.
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One state that stands in the middle of Trump and Biden is Texas, a typically Republican state.
On Monday, a federal judge in Houston will hold an emergency hearing on whether Harris County officials unlawfully held a drive-through voting event during the pandemic and should void more than 100,000 votes in the Democratic-dominant community. The lawsuit was initiated by conservative activists and members of the Republican Party.
A caravan of vehicles bearing Trump campaign flags followed and ultimately surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus on a Texas highway on Friday. As a result of the incident, the campaign cancelled two events.
Trump retweeted the video Saturday with the caption, “I LOVE TEXAS!”
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Campaign adviser Jason Miller said spoke on the Democrats’ stance on the fear of in-person voting due to coronavirus. The Trump campaign is confident that in-person voting on Tuesday will give them the needed push.
“Well, guess what? President Trump’s supporters are going to show up on Tuesday. Nothing is going to stop them,” Miller told ABC’s “This Week” program. “I think Democrats are going to look in the rear-view mirror and say, ‘This is probably what cost us the election.’”
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