November 02, 2020
Both presidential campaigns are holding events in Pennsylvania on the eve of Election Day, hoping to shore up the votes necessary to capture the battleground state's 20 electoral votes.
Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, and her husband, Doug Emhoff will rally supporters at a drive-in event in Philadelphia on Monday night. Singer John Legend, an alum of the University of Pennsylvania, will join her.
Emhoff will be campaigning in Bucks and Montgomery counties earlier in the day. Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, will host several campaign events in Western Pennsylvania.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump will visit Biden’s hometown of Scranton and Vice President Mike Pence will hold a pair of campaign events in Western Pennsylvania.
Both campaigns also spent time in Pennsylvania over the weekend. Biden held a rally in South Philly alongside new Sixers' head coach Doc Rivers.
Joe Biden in Philadelphia: "To beat the virus, first we gotta beat Donald Trump. He's the virus.” https://t.co/rlgU1dKT2A pic.twitter.com/raRxoSsloX
— ABC News (@ABC) November 2, 2020
New 76ers coach Doc Rivers is speaking now at the Biden rally in South Philly. pic.twitter.com/VOregIW7Fg
— Avi Wolfman-Arent (@Avi_WA) November 1, 2020
Trump held four rallies, including on in Bucks County, on Saturday.
“If I don’t look like a typical politician, it’s very simple, it’s because I’m not a politician.”@realDonaldTrump says he’s an outsider who’s fought harder for the people than “any president in the history of our country” during a Newtown, Pennsylvania MAGA rally pic.twitter.com/Mfbr3gOHYz
— Bloomberg QuickTake (@QuickTake) October 31, 2020
The razor-sharp focus of both presidential campaigns on Pennsylvania underscores the view that the state is among several that could decide who controls the White House for the next four years.
In September, a FiveThirtyEight analysis found that Pennsylvania may be the country's most important swing state. Polling indicates the race is close. Biden leads Trump by an average of four points in the state, according to Real Clear Politics.
Trump won Pennsylvania by less than 1% over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, becoming the first GOP presidential candidate to win the state since George H.W. Bush in 1988.
Mail-in and absentee ballots must be postmarked by no later than Tuesday in order to be counted. Voters are urged to deposit them in an official ballot drop box or return them to their county's election offices.
Locally, there are satellite election offices in Philadelphia, Delaware, Chester, Montgomery and Bucks counties.
They also can be returned using the U.S. Postal Service, but ballots must be postmarked no later than Tuesday. Still, election officials have recommended voters avoid mailing their ballots due to USPS delays.
Any ballot that arrives after polls close but before 5 p.m. Friday will be segregated and counted separately. Those that arrive after that deadline will not be counted.
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