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The presidential election is far from over. The publication of a benchmark poll for Iowa by the Des Moines Register on Saturday, October 31, stirred the Democratic camp marked with a red iron by Donald Trump’s surprise victory in 2016 – the polls at the time gave a clear lead to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. This poll puts Donald Trump in the lead, beyond the margin of error. Four years ago, the same institute anticipated the shift of this long democratic state into the republican camp.
Joe Biden did not campaign in Iowa before his trip there on October 30. The Democratic vice president has focused on other states, although a Senate seat is also at stake on November 3.
Nervousness is not the prerogative of the Democratic camp. On Friday in Texas, a motorcade of vehicles carrying signs and flags in support of Donald Trump surrounded a Joe Biden campaign bus traveling from San-Antonio to Austin. A video shows a pick-up truck displaying flags in favor of the president ward off a white SUV driving near the bus.
This intimidation maneuver led the Democratic camp to cancel “ as a precaution »The planned rally with the Texan branch of the AFL-CIO union. President Donald Trump posted a video of the incident on his Twitter account, preceded by the statement, in block letters: ” I love Texas! This message was interpreted as support for the force deployment of Trumpist supporters.
Donald Trump added to the tension during a meeting on Saturday, assuring that the presidential election would not be decided on Tuesday. He warned his devotees that they are going “Wait for weeks”. “November 3 will arrive and we will not know [qui a gagné] and you are going to have chaos in our country “, he said. He also suggested that “Very bad things” could occur while states are counting ballots in the days following the election, suggesting, without any evidence, that such operations would be prone to fraud.
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