The massive early turnout is roughly 65 percent of the 139 million votes cast in 2016, and it essentially guarantees that, for the first time in history, a majority of ballots will be cast before Election Day.
The candidates blitzed an expanded 14-state battlefield with ads and rallies that presented radically divergent visions for the nation.
Trump is rated high on the economy but low on coronavirus as case numbers rise. The polls were conducted during a week that saw the highest number of new daily cases of the novel coronavirus this year, with most states showing increases.
Biden holds a small lead in Pennsylvania, and most Democrats expect him to win the state, where he will spend the last two days of the campaign. But their anxiety is growing, fueled in part by Trump’s shocking win in 2016.
The president holds narrow leads over Joe Biden in states he won handily in 2016, forcing the GOP to spend money to save Senate seats.
Across the United States, political signs have been set ablaze, cars have been vandalized and neighborhood scuffles and shouting matches have proliferated in the waning days of the most toxic election season in more than half a century.
The nation's leading infectious-disease expert said, “We’re in for a whole lot of hurt,” and predicted a long and potentially deadly winter as infections and hospitalizations spike across the country.
All nonessential businesses were ordered closed for a month amid fears that cases could overwhelm British hospitals.
The White House directed the distribution of 23 million hydroxychloroquine tablets, setting aside mandatory safety controls.
Cemetery capacity has reached critical levels in the densely populated Indonesian capital, where Islamic custom forbids cremation.
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Nationals will ease into a long to-do list after a busy October.
