Trump votes in Florida, shows optimism
Donald Trump voted early on Saturday morning in Florida before going on a new series of three meetings, showing the hope of catching up on Joe Biden and reiterating his performance of 2016 on November 3.
“I voted for a guy called Trump,” he told reporters, adding, “It was a very safe vote, much safer than when you mail your ballot.”
The American president regularly raises, without proof, the threat of massive fraud concerning the vote by mail.
Like more than 55 million voters who have already voted early, especially for fear of COVID-19, the billionaire fulfilled his civic duty from a library in West Palm Beach, near his property in Mar-a- Lago, his new tax residence, since he left New York State, where he was booed four years ago while voting.
In Florida, dozens of supporters gathered Saturday morning to support him.
The Republican, who has resumed his campaign at a breakneck pace since being released from the hospital where he stayed for three nights following his coronavirus infection, will then move to North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin, before going to New Hampshire on Sunday.
“You are going to be very busy today, we will make you work very hard,” he told reporters before leaving the polling station.
And the former businessman has pledged to pick up the pace even further down the stretch, moving to five campaign meetings a day.
"How do you do five a day?" Who else can do five a day? Do you think Joe Biden can do five a day? I don't think so, ”he told reporters on board the Presidential Air Force One plane on Friday evening.
Obama and Sanders
The Democratic candidate, 77, is often the target of taunts from the Republican billionaire, because of the much calmer pace of his campaign and his respect for health recommendations, which deprives him of contact with the crowds.
He must therefore be satisfied on Saturday with a short trip to his native Pennsylvania, where the vote will be particularly awaited in November, after the surprise victory of Donald Trump in 2016, a first since 1988 for a Republican candidate in this blue-collar state of the east of the country.
But the former vice-president of Barak Obama can count on the support of the latter, still very popular among Democrats, who will hold a drive-in format meeting in another key state, Florida, which he won twice. times, in 2008 and 2012.
Another big Democrat name, Senator Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden's former opponent in the primary and still very popular with the left wing of the party, will also campaign in Pennsylvania.
Despite the polls, which still give Joe Biden an average 8 point lead nationally, Donald Trump is still as optimistic. The president appears to be enjoying a slight thrill in Florida, one of the major key states, the ones that will make the decision on November 3.
“We are not late, we are early. We are ahead of where we were four years ago, and the wave will be even bigger than four years ago, there is even more enthusiasm now ”, he assured Friday. evening.
The coronavirus, one of the main weaknesses of its record with more than 220,000 dead in the country, yet hangs over the countryside more than ever, the United States having beaten a record of contaminations in 24 hours on Friday, with around 80,000 new cases detected.
