Politics & Government

Trump, Biden Hit 5 Key States In Final Day Of Rallies

With less than 24 hours to Election Day, both candidates set sights on swing states.

Campaign signs of the Biden and Trump campaigns are displayed outside an early voting location at Massey Hill Recreation Center & Park on Friday in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Campaign signs of the Biden and Trump campaigns are displayed outside an early voting location at Massey Hill Recreation Center & Park on Friday in Fayetteville, North Carolina. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

In the last day of campaigning before Election Day in the U.S., both President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden made last-ditch appeals to voters in a scattershot campaign targeting in five battleground states.

Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and Vice President Mike Pence spread out to attend rallies in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin while two of his children head to Florida and Arizona for events on Monday.

Meanwhile, Biden and wife Jill, along with running mate Kamala Harris and her husband, Douglas Emhoff, took a "barnstorming" tour of Pennsylvania after heading to Cleveland, Ohio, earlier in the day.

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Winning Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes could be the deciding factor in determining the outcome of the 2020 election. In 2016, Trump won Pennsylvania by 44,000 votes to defeat democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

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Pennsylvania, where Biden leads Trump by five points, has been forecast as the most likely tipping-point state in the race, according to FiveThirtyEight. Trump also made an appearance in Pennsylvania on Monday.


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North Carolina, Ohio and Michigan have also been identified by FiveThirtyEight as as being either very close races or states close to a tipping point.

More than 96 million Americans turned out to vote early in the 2020 General Election, more than doubling the number of early voters in 2016. In a study of 20 states with party registration, 45.4 percent of voters were registered Democrats, and 30.4 percent of voters were registered Republicans. Another 24.3 percent of voters were registered with a minor party or had no party affiliation.

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