Trump launches into a frenzy to try and reverse surveys

The U.S. election campaign entered its final some hours with the current president, Republican Donald Trump, immersed in a frantic final agenda to try to turn around adverse voter intention polls that clearly lean toward his Democratic rival, former Vice President Joe Biden.

Trump began the day with a rain-soaked event in Washington, Michigan, promising that there would be no more quarantines or business closures because of the pandemic, in a clear message against his opponent and the Democratic governors who have been known to take restrictive measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, which has caused more than 9 million infections and 230,000 deaths in the United States.

The Democratic candidate was quick to respond to the president through his official Twitter account in which he assured that "more than 230,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 and Donald Trump has given up trying to control the virus".

"If we hadn't won the last time (in the 2016 election), I probably wouldn't be here in Michigan," Trump said, acknowledging the importance of this Midwestern state in achieving victory in next Tuesday's election, and where polls place it slightly behind Biden.

His appearance before his fervent supporters in Michigan was the first of a marathon journey with stops in Iowa, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida.

With only some hours left before Election Day, the polls still favor Joe Biden, who is ten percentage points ahead of Trump.

The Wall Street Journal said today that 52% of voters have expressed their support for Biden, while 42% have done so for Trump.

However, the paper notes that this advantage is narrowing in key regions. Specifically, it said that in twelve states where the fight between the two candidates is being fought, Biden's lead is down to six points.

A New York Times poll also published today shows that in four battleground states where Trump beat then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, Joe Biden leads.

Specifically, it refers to Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Florida, where today Trump concludes his busy election schedule.

The newspaper assures that in Arizona Biden is ahead of the president by 6 points (49%-43%), in Florida by 3 (47%-44%), in Pennsylvania by 6 (49%-43), and in Wisconsin by 11 (52%-41%).

The "final sprint" of the candidates coincides with the closure of the early voting in states such as New York, a Democratic bastion, or in the disputed Florida.

In New York City, where Biden's victory is assured, more than a million people have taken advantage of the opportunity to cast their ballots in the first elections in which this voting option is offered. In 2016, more than 2.6 million people voted on Election Day in the Big Apple.

At the polling station located in Madison Square Garden stadium in Manhattan, Danielle Sintra explained to Efe that she went to vote today because last Saturday, when the early voting centers opened, the line went around the building.

Coinciding with a rainy morning, the place appeared little busy and by midday the voters were arriving little by little, without having to wait, as happened in the first days.

For its part, in Florida, where in addition to the Republican candidate, a rally is expected from Jill Biden, wife of the Democratic candidate Joe Biden, 61.85% of those registered to vote have already done so.

However, the candidates do not seem to have given up convincing the remaining 39.15% to break the almost technical tie between the two political figures.

Analysts agree that Trump needs to win in Florida, which provides 29 of the 270 Electoral College votes required to be declared the winner of the presidential election.

Biden's great trump card to finish off his campaign in Florida is former president Barack Obama, who will be the star of a rally this Monday in South Florida, about which no further details are known.

Coinciding with the last day of the early vote, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, representative of the most leftist wing of the Democratic Party, assured Efe this Sunday that the country is in an "extremely dangerous moment" and stressed the importance of insisting on "non-violence" and that those responsible be held accountable for their actions.

"We are in an extremely dangerous time and that is why it is very, very, very important to insist on non-violence and to hold people accountable for their actions," Ocasio-Cortez said during a campaign event in the Jackson Hights neighborhood of New York.

Specifically, the politics of Puerto Rican origin denounced white racist groups and the harassment to which a campaign bus of the Democratic candidate for president, former vice president Joe Biden, was subjected this week in the state of Texas.

The federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, is investigating this incident, which occurred Friday and was captured on video, in which according to local media a hundred vehicles of Trump supporters harassed a Biden campaign bus on an interstate highway, forcing the Democrats to cancel two planned campaign events for "security reasons. 

Fears of a possible wave of violence, which have spread to several states around the country, have also infected iconic stores and buildings in midtown Manhattan, such as the Empire State Building, which has protected its windows with wooden panels to prevent possible damage and looting, such as those that occurred in late May and early June.

The Macy's stores on Broadway or The North Face clothing store on 5th Avenue were now barricaded behind the wooden boards, which Macy's has chosen to paint black, while in Washington, the federal capital, many stores have their windows protected with panels.