⁍ Trump will hold rallies on Friday in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

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⁍ Biden has planned stops in Wisconsin and Minnesota as well as Iowa.

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⁍ Early voting data show that far more Democrats have voted by mail, while Republicans are expected to turn out in greater numbers.

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– With Election Day looming on Tuesday, President Trump and Joe Biden are hitting the campaign trail in what Reuters calls ” battleground states where the coronavirus has exploded again.” Trump will hit Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota on Friday, while Biden will hit Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa on his ” busiest day of campaigning during the general election race,” the campaign says. Trump has a narrow lead in the latest polls in some of the most competitive states, including Pennsylvania, where Biden will hit all four corners of the state on Monday. More than 82 million people, or 60% of the total votes cast in this year’s election, have already voted by mail. That means results from states like Pennsylvania that don’t begin counting mail-in ballots until Election Day could show Trump in the lead before flipping as more Democratic-heavy ballots are added, a phenomenon some have called the “red mirage” and the “blue shift.” Trump has repeatedly claimed without evidence that mail-in ballots are susceptible to fraud, and on Thursday, a federal appeals court barred Minnesota election officials from implementing a plan to count ballots arriving up to a week after Election Day as long as they were postmarked by next Tuesday. Trump has repeatedly claimed without evidence that mail-in ballots are susceptible to fraud, and has more recently argued that only the results available on election night should count. Early voting data show that far more Democrats have voted by mail, while Republicans are expected to turn out in greater numbers on Tuesday.