FROM OUR REPORT TO MCALLEN (Texas) – More than 56 million Americans have already voted, that is about 21% of those eligible (239 million) and over 37% of the 136 million who participated in the 2016 presidential elections. , it can be said that the elections have already begun. Indeed we are in the midst of a prolonged, unprecedented clash, which will last from now to November 3, canonical day of the presidential elections.
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The numbers, elaborated by Michael McDonald professor at the University of Florida, offer important indications on the moods of America. In nineteen of the fifty states of the Union, the registers are public: the political affiliation of each elector can also be known. Well, out of a total of 25.7 million, the Democrats are 49.6% (12.7 million); the Republicans 7 million, 27.5%. 22.3% did not declare any preference.
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The Florida statistics stand out above all, where 38% of the electoral body have already presented themselves to the polls or sent the ballot by post. Florida, with Ohio, the state in the balance by definition. At the moment the Democrats are ahead with 43.3% (2.29 million); the Republicans are chasing 7 points, with 36% and 1,903,762 preferences. Among these there is also that of the American president, who appeared yesterday in a polling station in Palm Beach, where he moved his residence: everything went very well, I chose a certain Trump. The leader of the White House has for months waged an alarmist campaign against voting by mail, denouncing possible fraud. The Democrats, on the other hand, with the Obamas in the front row, pushed for early voting, correcting the message in the running: it’s okay to send the ballot, but even better if you go to the polling stations in person. The response in the country is impressive. And there are still ten days left: Eventually the total turnout could jump up to 65%, a record high by American standards.
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There is growing anxiety and concern among the Trumpians, because this tidal wave is above all blue, the color of the Democrats. We must therefore react. At 10.30 on Saturday morning, about 200 cars, trucks, SUVs, large-displacement motorcycles clog a large parking lot near the airport of McAllen, a town in Texas on the border with Mexico. Flags, caps. Everything is ready for the procession in the streets of the city. We will go round the polls, we want to get people to vote as soon as possible, explains Laurence Shannon, a 40-year-old psychologist, as he thunders his Harley Davidson.
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Statistics from Professor McDonald indicate that Texas is the state where the most votes have already been made: 6.8 million ballots, against 6.3 million in California. We don’t know how many Democrats or Republicans are, but interestingly, 6 million Texans have discarded the post office box and queued in front of offices.
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We traveled a stretch of road with the Trumpian caravan, guests of the pick-up of Dago Chavero, forty-year-old Hispanic-American, assistant engineer, five children. As the procession moves, with prolonged honking, he tells: McAllen an area where the Democrats prevail. We have seen their mobilization and we are certainly worried. But we are responding great. For a few weeks now, every Saturday, we get into our cars and drive for five hours. Gradually we are more and more numerous. Today we will be 1,600 cars. A huge thing.
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October 24, 2020 (change October 24, 2020 | 22:23)
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