Our, fourteen and even seize points in advance. Three recent polls, taking the pulse of the electorate after the first televised debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, September 29, indicate a flight of the Democratic candidate to four weeks of the presidential election of 3 November. The former vice-president crosses the threshold of 50% of voting intentions, while, in one of the surveys, the president falls below 40%.
Cautious, Larry Sabato, political scientist at the University of Virginia, rather situates this growing gap at eight-nine points. However, beyond seven points ahead of the ballot box, Biden would no longer run the risk of winning universal suffrage without winning the majority of the electoral college (270 out of 538) which elects the President. This is the mishap that happened to Hillary Clinton four years ago.
Gatherer vs. divider
These polls sanction Trump’s inflammatory attitude during the debate. Determined to accentuate the contrast, Biden cultivates the image of the unifier. Tuesday, October 6, he called on the Americans for appeasement from Gettysburg, site of one of the deadliest battles of the Civil War (1861-1865), which left more than 600,000 dead. This city is located in Pennsylvania, one of the most contested and decisive states in the presidential election along with Florida.
Without naming Trump, Biden denounced it the forces of darkness, the forces of division, the forces of yesterday which separate us, prevent us from rising and advancing ”.
In the face of racial tensions, armed militias, the coronavirus that has killed 210,000 Americans, and a President who sharpens tensions, the Democrat pleaded for unity: It’s enough ! Let’s put partisan arguments aside and follow the science. Wearing a mask is not a political position, it is a scientific recommendation.
After being released from the hospital on Monday evening, Trump, still being treated for Covid, had spectacularly torn off his mask on the balcony of the White House. He also angrily broke off talks with Congressional Democrats over a $ 2 trillion plan to support the virus-stricken economy and households. A decision “Inappropriately” entrusted to Axios counselors “Extremely perplexed” Trump, she will bristle with voters.
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