Trump dismisses 'fake' polls, while Biden says it is time to end the 'chaos'
04 November, 2020
Donald Trump on Monday made your final demand votes in Joe Biden's native city on the eve of election day, dismissing polls that predicted a loss as his Democratic challenger urged Americans to get rid of four years of "chaos."
The rivals spent Monday campaigning in swing states which will decide the election, before converging on the main element battleground of Pennsylvania where both were holding major rallies.
Mr Trump had a surprise victory in the state in 2016, but Mr Biden has maintained a reliable if narrowing lead there, and will make an 11th-hour election excursion to his gritty childhood hometown of Scranton.
Mr Trump flew into metropolis for a raucous event on Mr Biden's home turf, after rallying supporters in Fayetteville, NEW YORK.
"I watch these fake polls," he said there. "We're going to win anyway."
Mr Trump's shots at pollsters, journalists, social media chief executives and his 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton reflected the bitter mood as he faces the opportunity of being taken off the White House.
As he returned to his months-long attempts to portray Mr Biden as "sleepy" or "corrupt," the crowd chanted: "Lock him up."
And Mr Trump sought to capture the spirit of his shock win four years ago, telling the crowd: "You elected an outsider as president who is finally putting America first.
"Get out and vote, that's all I ask."
But Mr Biden, who has generated his campaign on portraying Mr Trump as a reckless failure through the coronavirus pandemic, senses victory.
Opinion polls give him small but steady advantages in every of the swing states and even have him threatening Republican strongholds such as for example Georgia and Texas.
"It's time for Donald Trump to pack his bags and go home," Mr Biden, 77, told supporters at a socially distanced event in Cleveland, Ohio.
"We're finished with the chaos. We're finished with the tweets, the anger, the hate, the failure, the irresponsibility."
After Ohio, Mr Biden went to Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania where he was joined by pop superstar Lady Gaga - in black platform shoes and a bedazzling "Vote" mask - for a drive-in rally.
In chilly downtown Pittsburgh, nurse Justine Wolff said she had already cast her ballot for Mr Biden and was cautiously hopeful that he'd win the state.
"I hope that persons have seen the writing on the wall," said Ms Wolff, 35. "We are looking for some sort of change because this is not doing work for anybody."
Mr Biden will be back Pennsylvania on Tuesday - election day campaigning is rare but legal - heading first to Scranton and the state's greatest city Philadelphia.
Barack Obama was also lending star power to his former vice president, rallying supporters in Georgia and Florida, where in fact the vote is on a razor's edge.
Tuesday is formally election day but in reality it marks the finish of a drawn-out month.
With an enormous expansion in mail-in voting to safeguard against the Covid-19 pandemic, almost 100 million people have cast ballots, highlighting the passion in what is turning into a referendum on the norm-shattering Republican's first term.
Throughout Washington, businesses boarded up windows in expectation of unrest, and a fresh "unscalable" fence was reportedly planned around the White House, behind growing layers of fortifications since a summer of anti-racism protests.
While the Trump administration warned of left-wing extremists leading to havoc, the president's supporters made their own show of force, driving in caravans of flag-bedecked pick-up trucks and blocking roads around the country.
Mr Trump, who mocks Mr Biden's modestly attended events as proof that the judgment polls should be wrong, was capping his closing surge of 14 rallies in three days with visits to NEW YORK, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.
The last rally will be Monday night in Grand Rapids, where Mr Trump delivered the ultimate speech of his victorious 2016 campaign and where he hopes once again to spark an upset.
Lynn Gionte, 60, a nurse attending the president's Scranton rally, predicted that he'd ride "a red wave" to re-election.
"I've seen more Trump signs than Biden signs here," Ms Gionte told AFP. "I've never seen anywhere near this much excitement for a president."
But Mr Trump has evidently fretted over the record early vote count, which tends to lean towards the Democrats.
Source: www.thenationalnews.com