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US campaign in high gear with early voting under way in battleground Florida
Published in Ahram Online on 19 - 10 - 2020

Early voting began on Monday in Florida, a battleground state that could decide the Nov. 3 presidential election, while a record 28 million Americans already have cast ballots nationwide with barely two weeks remaining in the U.S. campaign.
President Donald Trump, running out of time to change the dynamics of a race that opinion polls show him losing, will visit Arizona on Monday after holding a rally in Nevada on Sunday and urging his supporters to vote amid signs that Democrats are leading the surge in early voting.
His Democratic challenger Joe Biden, who campaigned on Sunday in North Carolina, another state that could favor either candidate, will spend the day at his home base in Delaware, while his running mate, U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, heads to Florida to encourage supporters to vote early.
On Monday morning, voters lined up outside polling places across Florida to cast their ballots. Hundreds of people, most wearing face masks, stood in pouring rain outside the public library in Coral Gables, a majority-Hispanic city near Miami.
Louis Perez, 57, an insurance fraud investigator, said he was voting for Biden because of Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
"He lied about it right from the beginning," Perez, who is not affiliated with a party, said of Trump.
Registered Republican Antonio Sanchez, an architect who arrived in the United States from Communist Cuba and was also voting in Coral Gables, said he supported Trump because he "stands for freedom" and against socialism.
"My two daughters are doctors. I don't think this could have happened anyplace other than America," said Sanchez, 59.
Florida is widely seen as a must-win for Trump, whose path to victory becomes razor-thin if he loses the southern state. The state's prize of 29 electoral votes is tied with New York for third most, behind only California and Texas, in the race for the 270 Electoral College votes that determine the presidential winner under the U.S. system.

BIDEN 49% TRUMP 47% IN FLORIDA
An Oct. 7-14 Reuters/Ipsos survey of the state showed Biden with 49% of the support and Trump 47%, within the survey's credibility interval of 4 percentage points.
Both campaigns have poured advertising money into Florida, although Biden, who has significantly outraised Trump since the summer while setting consecutive monthly records for a U.S. candidate, has outspent his Republican rival.
Harris, who was given a clean bill of health after an aide tested positive for COVID-19, will participate in early-vote rallies in Orlando and Jacksonville, the campaign said.
Trump will stage rallies first in Prescott and later in Tucson, Arizona, another battleground, or swing, state.
The 27.9 million Americans who already have voted either by mail or in person, according to the U.S. Elections Project at the University of Florida, is a far greater number at this point in the campaign than in previous years.
Voters have cast about 20% of the overall total in 2016, when more than 136.6 million cast ballots.
Democrats account for 55% of the 10.9 million ballots cast in states that report party registration data, compared with 24% for Republicans.
At a rally in Carson City, Nevada, on Sunday, where voting began the day before, Trump implored his supporters to "get out and vote" to help him flip a state that he lost narrowly to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Despite his recent recovery from his own bout with the virus, Trump mocked Biden for his cautious approach toward the pandemic.
"Listen to the scientists!" Trump said in a mocking voice. "If I listened totally to the scientists, we would right now have a country that would be in a massive depression."
In North Carolina, where 1.4 million, or 20%, of the state's registered voters had voted as of Sunday morning, Biden urged residents to vote as soon as possible, and attacked Trump for saying the country had "turned the corner" on the pandemic.
"Things are getting worse, and he continues to lie to us about circumstances," said Biden, who will debate Trump for a final time on Thursday in Nashville, Tennessee.


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