One week before the election, Obama begs the Democrats not to be "lazy"

With only a week to go before the election "the most important election of our lives," former President Barack Obama said Tuesday, calling on Democrats to vote en masse to deprive Donald Trump of a second term, while the Republican president is stepping up rallies in hopes of bringing about a final reversal. 

With 67 of the more than 230 million Americans having already voted (one-third in person and two-thirds by mail), an all-time record, Democratic candidate Joe Biden and Donald Trump are each campaigning in states normally taken for granted by Republicans, a sign of the immense challenge facing the president. 

From Washington to Las Vegas, Michigan, Wisconsin and Nebraska, Donald Trump, as usual, planned the busiest day of rallies.

One week before the election, Obama begs the Democrats not to be "lazy"

One week before the election, Obama begs the Democrats not to be "lazy".

His rival will move only to the state of Georgia, in the conservative south, where until recently no one would have thought Trump could be beaten. 

But the former real estate mogul, according to the polls that have left him trailing, may have some nasty surprises on November 3 in some Republican strongholds. Among them is one of the three districts in Nebraska, which has not voted Democratic since... Barack Obama in 2008.

The latter is back on the podium for the final stretch before the election, and he resumed Tuesday his scathing indictment against the billionaire, whom he considers navel-gazing and incompetent.

One week before the election, Obama begs the Democrats not to be "lazy"

One week before the election, Obama begs the Democrats not to be "lazy".

"This president is taking credit for an economy he inherited, and he blames himself for a pandemic he ignored," Barack Obama said in Orlando, Florida, at a new drive-in rally in Orlando, Florida.

He again raised the spectre of a repeat of the 2016 election, when Hillary Clinton, ahead in the polls, had finally lost to the surprise of all.