⁍ Number of early ballots cast in the contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden passes 35 million.
⁍ Biden’s old boss – former President Barack Obama – is to campaign for the Democratic candidate in Pennsylvania.
⁍ National opinion polls show Biden, the former vice president, holding a wide lead over Republican Trump.
⁍ Trump has gained some ground on Biden in Pennsylvania, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday.
– With two weeks to go until Election Day, the number of early votes cast in the presidential race between President Trump and Joe Biden has passed 35 million, Reuters reports. According to the University of Florida’s US Elections Project, that number represents more than a quarter of the total votes cast in the 2016 election. Early voting began in Wisconsin, Utah, and Hawaii on Tuesday. In Miami, a police officer in uniform wore a “Trump 2020” face mask inside a polling location, according to the Miami-Dade Democratic Party chairman, who posted a photo of the officer. The Miami Police Department said that “this behavior is unacceptable, a violation of departmental policy, and is being addressed immediately.”
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election/trump-to-campaign-in-pennsylvania-as-early-voting-surges-past-35-million-mark-idUSKBN2750JP