WASHINGTON (AP) – Millions of electorates on Tuesday challenged coronavirus considerations and occasional long queues between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden in an epic election that will influence how america will deal with everything from the pandemic to race relations in the coming years. .
Those who took the user joined 102 million compatriots who voted days or weeks earlier, a record figure that accounted for 73% of total votes in the 2016 presidential election.
The spirits were, and positive, in many polling stations after a long and exceptionally divisive campaign.
“The ultimate vital factor for us is putting aside our non-public differences with others,” said Eboni Price, 29, who drove his Moon horse to its polling station in a community northwest of Houston.
Biden entered Election Day with multiple paths to victory, while Trump, who stood up to the game in several battlefield states, had a narrower but still feasible path to winning 270 votes at the Electoral College. I’d win three seats if Biden took the White House to take over all of Washington for the first time in a decade.
With the worst public fitness crisis in an even present century, the pandemic, and Trump’s handling of it, the inevitable purpose for 2020.
The president began his day on a positive note, predicting that he would do even better than in 2016, but on a midday stopover at the headquarters of his crusade, he spoke in a rough and moderate tone.
“Winning is easy,” Trump told reporters. Losing is never easy, it’s not my case. “
Trump left open the option to head to the country on Tuesday night, even though a winner had not been determined. Biden had scheduled a night speech from his part of Delaware, but hours before the speech, he fainted and said, “If there’s anything to say. I’ll let you know tonight. Otherwise, I will wait until the votes are counted the next day ».
“I’m superstitious in predicting what the outcome will be until it happens . . . but I’m hopeful,” said Biden, who in the afterlife made a definitive pitch in critical Pennsylvania. “It is so doubtful that Array . . . you cannot think of an election in the recent afterlife where so many states were at stake. “
The momentum of early voting continued until Election Day, as a life-filled electorate produced long queues at polling stations across the country. Voters defied considerations about coronavirus, threats to intimidate polling stations, and long queues caused by adjustments to voting systems, but did not seem discouraged because participation gave the impression of exceeding 139 million votes cast four years ago.
Primary disorders did not occur tuesday, apart from typical presidential election disorders: some polling stations opened late, automated calls with false data to the electorate in Iowa and Michigan, and machines or software that malfunctioned in some counties in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Texas. states of the battlefield.
The National Security Department’s cybersecurity firm said there were no open-air signs at noon of malicious activity.
Record early voting, and legal skirmishes over how it would be counted, led to unfounded allegations of fraud by Trump, who had refused to make sure he would honor the election result.
Biden visited the house and church of his training years in Scranton on Tuesday as part of a voting effort before waiting for the effects of the election in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware. Her co-partner, Senator Kamala Harris, visits Detroit, a heavily black city on the battlefield of Michigan.
Biden and his wife, Jill, also stopped in San Jose at the Brandywine in Wilmington, Delaware, with two of their grandchildren in tow, and then went to the grave of their late son Beau Biden in the church cemetery. a former Delaware attorney general, he died of brain cancer in 2015 and had encouraged the former vice president to run again for the White House.
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The first ballot boxes close at 6 p. m. La eastern time in parts of Indiana and Kentucky, followed by a steady flow of closures every 30 minutes to an hour at night. The last polling stations in Alaska closed Wednesday at 1 a. m. EAST Time.
The crusade has left the electorate on both sides eager to move on, the final results may not be known in days.
“I think there’s a lot of department and separation,” said Kelvin Hardnett, who among more than two dozen electorates who covered more than an hour before the Cobb County Civic Center polling station opened atlanta’s doors on Tuesday. “And I think once we’ve gone beyond names, titles and private programs, you know, we can focus on genuine topics. “
A new fence has been erected around the White House, and in urban centers ranging from New York to Denver to Minneapolis, they have gotten into business for fear that voting will lead to riots like the ones that broke out this year amid protests against racial inequality.
A few steps from the White House, block by block, they had their windows and doors covered; some kept only an open front door, hoping to attract some business.
Both applicants voted early and first lady Melania Trump voted Tuesday near Mar-a-Lago, the couple’s assets in Palm Beach, Florida. Ms. Trump, who recently recovered from COVID-19, was the only one not dressed in a mask when she entered the polling place. Her spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, said the first girl was the only user of the polling place, but still election officials and their staff, all of whom were evaluated.
Whoever wins will face a troubled nation, shaken by a century-long fitness crisis that has closed and worsened businesses as the climate gets colder.
The crusade was largely a referendum on Trump’s handling of the virus. Trump has long insisted that the country “ignores the turn” of the virus. But Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Working Group, broke up with the president and joined a chorus of Trump’s management scientists who sounded alarm about the increase in infections.
“We are entering the maximum phase of concern and fatality of this pandemic,” Birx wrote in a memorandum distributed to senior management officials. He added that the country is not implementing the “balanced” measures needed to curb the spread of the virus.
In Virginia Beach, Biden Gabriella Cochrane, 54, said she believed the former vice president would “surround himself with the best and the brightest” to fight the pandemic.
In Concord, New Hampshire, Linda Eastman, 70, said she gave Trump her vote and said, “He may not be very productive with the coronavirus, but I think he did everything he could with what he had. “
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Jaffe reported from Pittsburgh; Miller reported from Grand Rapids, Michigan; Associated Press editors Robert Burns, Kevin Freking, Aamer Madhani, Deb Riechmann and Will Weissert in Washington, Bill Barrow and Haleluya Hadero in Atlanta, Jeff Martin in Cobb County, Georgia, Juan Lozano in Houston, Corey Williams in West Bloomfield, Michigan, Kathy McCormack in Concord, New Hampshire and Natalie Pompilio contributed to this report.
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