Region:
USA
Category:
Politics

Final push for Trump and Biden with a day to go

  • Final push for Trump and Biden with a day to go
    Poll: Biden holds 5-point to 7-point lead over Trump in crucial state of Pennsylvania. Final push for Trump and Biden with a day to go
Region:
USA
Category:
Politics
Author/s:
By Reuters, BBC News, AP
Publication date:
Print article

Poll: Biden holds 5-point to 7-point lead over Trump in crucial state of Pennsylvania.
On election-eve Biden will target Pennsylvania and Ohio, Trump visits four states.
FBI confirms it is investigating Biden bus incident.
Trump says he is preparing for legal challenges to vote counts as final sprint begins.



Joe Biden holds a 5-point to 7-point lead over Donald Trump among likely voters in Pennsylvania, according to the final Monmouth University Poll of the campaign. They say:

Biden leads Trump by a 51% to 44% margin among likely Pennsylvania voters in a high turnout model. The race stands at 50% Biden to 45% Trump in a low turnout scenario – which at this point would basically mean a large number of mail ballots have been rejected. Among all registered voters, 50% support Biden and 45% back Trump while another 1% support Libertarian Jo Jorgensen and 4% are undecided or won’t reveal their vote choice. The undecided number is up slightly from 2% last month.

Donald Trump continues his frenetic pace of campaigning in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.



His Democratic rival Joe Biden will campaign in Pennsylvania and Ohio ahead of Tuesday's poll.



Biden will be joined by Lady Gaga at a rally in Pittsburgh, while singer John Legend appears with running-mate Kamala Harris in Philadelphia.



Some 90 million people have already voted.



The country is on course for its highest electoral turnout rate in more than a century.



A court in Houston is to consider a Republican claim that drive-through voting is illegal and 120,000 votes should be void.



The FBI says it's investigating after a convoy of vehicles with Trump flags surrounded a bus carrying Biden campaign staff on a Texas highway.

The FBI has confirmed it is investigating an incident in which a convoy of vehicles flying flags in support of President Donald Trump’s re-election bid surrounded a tour bus carrying campaign staff for Democratic challenger Joe Biden on a Texas highway.

Friday’s incident prompted the Biden campaign to cancel at least two of its Texas events as Democrats accused the president of encouraging supporters to engage in acts of intimidation.

“FBI San Antonio is aware of the incident and investigating,” special agent Michelle Lee, a spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in San Antonio, told Reuters in an email. “No further information is available at this time.”



The final push for votes follows America’s worst ever week for new coronavirus cases, with more than 1,000 people dying each day.



Today we'll be spotlighting Covid-19 as a major election issue, and looking at how it might affect the result.