The moment of truth has arrived. After a long and media campaign, the time for the polls arrived. Nearly 244 million people are called to vote in the elections USA that are celebrated this Tuesday. Although 80 million – a third – have done so in advance, in person or by mail, according to the University of Florida count.
It is the case of Kamala Harrisvice president of the country and Democratic candidate, who already voted two days ago by mail and sent her ballot to California, the state in which she was attorney general (2011-2017). Not so that of the former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump, who voted this Tuesday at a polling station in Palm Beach, in the state of Florida.
The tycoon has cast his ballot accompanied by his wife, Melaniabefore promising the journalists who were waiting for him that he will recognize his defeat “if the elections are clean”. A calculated ambiguity that, in a certain way, could advance unfortunate scenarios, not in vain in the previous elections his refusal to accept the results made some of his followers broke into the Capitol.
In any case, Trump has claimed to feel “very confident” for this election night and that he is convinced that he will win, even ruling out that the elections will be as close as the polls predict.
“I have heard that we are doing very well everywhere (…) It won’t even come close,” confided the former president, who highlighted this last campaign as the “best” of the three he has had in his aspirations to reach the White House.
Despite having shown himself convinced of his victory before the media, Trump has not missed the opportunity to protest the US electoral system, which he has reproached. take too long in offering the results.
Biden keeps a low profile
The American president, Joe Biden, maintains a low profile this Tuesday while the American population decides whether the vice president and Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris, or the former Republican president Donald Trump (2017-2021) will succeed him in the White House.
His agenda for the day, according to the program released by the White House, includes only a summary of the day at 1:30 p.m. local time (6:30 p.m. GMT), and it is not expected that the presidential spokesperson, Karine Jean-Pierre, will offer a press conference. .
The Democratic president resigned from his re-election race in July under pressure from criticism for his poor performance in his debate against Trump. In X he encouraged people to vote this Tuesday: “Let’s make history by electing Kamala Harris”he said on that social network.
His last public appearance dates back to Saturday in Scranton, his hometown, in the key state of Pennsylvania, where he held a meeting with unions. In that same state, Harris closed her campaign this Monday with a rally in Philadelphia in which she was accompanied by artists such as Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin.
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