⁍ The two men are focusing their campaigns on the closely-fought states that are expected to determine the winner of the Nov. 3 election.

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⁍ Early voting is shattering records, with more than 22 million Americans having already cast ballots.

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⁍ A new Reuters/Ipsos poll showed Trump and Biden in a statistical dead heat in Florida, which is coveted for its 29 electoral votes.

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– With 18 days to go before the election, Donald Trump and Joe Biden are both focusing on the swing states of Florida, Michigan, and Georgia—and they’re not happy about it. “Oh, I got an emergency call today,” Trump told a rally in Florida on Friday, per Reuters. “They say, ‘Sir, I’m sorry to tell you, but President Obama is going to start campaigning for Sleepy Joe.’ I said, ‘So what’s the problem with that’ … I said, ‘you know, he campaigned harder than Hillary last time, so why do we care?'” Biden, speaking in Michigan, accused Trump of trying to “distract us from focusing on his failures to deal with this virus to protect the nation.” “It’s not disappearing, in fact it’s on the rise again,” he said. “It’s getting worse, as predicted.” A new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows Trump and Biden in a statistical dead heat in Florida, which is coveted for its 29 electoral votes. Biden’s campaign said former President Obama would travel to Philadelphia next week to campaign on his former vice president’s behalf. Early voting began in Louisiana on Friday, following record turnout this week in the competitive states of Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas. The candidates returned to the trail after dueling town hall events replaced a presidential debate that was canceled after Trump’s recent bout with coronavirus. A combative Trump, sparring with moderator Savannah Guthrie, refused to condemn the conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was rife with fraud. Biden delivered policy-heavy answers and again questioned whether masks help fight the spread of the virus.