Americans vote, two rooms two atmospheres for Trump and Biden and a hectic evening

Ask for the program! With This is America, its daily meeting of international news, 20 Minutes best briefs you to follow the American campaign day by day. This Tuesday we are looking at the American voters who come to vote, on two rooms two atmospheres for Joe Biden and Donald Trump and on an evening which promises to be agitated. In any case, you will know while reading our live here.

Come (vote) as you are

They have come, but will they all be there? Millions of American voters are expected in person at their polling stations on Tuesday. While some states have already reached their 2016 turnout with early voting alone (Texas, Hawaii, Montana), in others, long queues should form during the day, such as this is already the case on the east coast.

Line of 50 people already at Grace Episcopal Church in West Palm Beach.

Some people have been here since 5am.

Why so early?

“Because democracy is at stake,” said one voter at the front of the line. pic.twitter.com/o3cpdgPhwB

— Oliver Laughland (@oliverlaughland) November 3, 2020

Already a line around the block to vote at PS 87 in Manhattan shortly after polls open at 6a. pic.twitter.com/AsJMLaHZdh

— Zack Fink (@ZackFinkNews) November 3, 2020

The size of these queues could well be decisive in knowing the next tenant of the White House. More voters registered as Democrats have asked to vote at the advance polls, so the Republican camp is hoping that voters will show up. And the Democrats, who dream of winning both the White House and Congress, too.

VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!pic.twitter.com/85ySh1KYkh

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2020

To come and vote, Americans must brave the fear of the coronavirus, but also the fear of possible violence or intimidation in the polling stations. Election observers are deployed to many locations across the country to make sure everything is running smoothly.

It’s Election Day. Go vote, America!

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 3, 2020

So let’s dance, the last dance

Two rooms and always two atmospheres for Joe Biden and Donald Trump. On this first post-campaign day, the two candidates chose to do things differently. Joe Biden made a point of attending church at his home in Delaware with his wife Jill and two of his granddaughters, before praying at the grave of his son Beau, who died of cancer in 2015. He must then travel to Scranton, Pennsylvania (like that) where he lived until he was 10, for the third visit to this “swing state” in… three days. No question of making the same mistake as Hillary Clinton in 2016. Joe Biden will then end the day with a speech in Delaware in the company of Kamala Harris.

Joe Biden starts #ElectionDay with a visit to church — and the grave of his late son, Beau. Biden and his wife, Jill, made an early stop at St. Joseph’s on the Brandywine in Wilmington, Delaware, the church he typically visits on Sunday when home. https://t.co/NHRBzOsk9e

— The Associated Press (@AP) November 3, 2020

Donald Trump, for his part, began the day with an interview on Fox News, reaffirming that he has every chance of winning and assuring that he would win “at least 306 voters”. In his own words, he should then make calls “to very important people who have supported him”. After a visit to Arlington, Virginia, he is expected to return to the White House where a party is still scheduled for Tuesday. Four hundred people, who will all be tested for coronavirus, according to officials, are expected on Pennsylvania avenue this Tuesday evening …

An exhausted-sounding Trump on when he’ll declare victory: “When there’s victory. If there’s victory … there’s no reason to play games.” pic.twitter.com/MiuuPjTe1E

– Aaron Rupar (atrupar) November 3, 2020

It goes on and on (is it just the beginning? Okay okay)

A small layer before finishing. Donald Trump reaffirmed Monday evening, for his last campaign meeting, that postal voting could encourage electoral fraud. For those who have not yet fully understood the message that the Head of State has continued to hammer out in recent weeks.

Donald Trump said he was particularly worried about… Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia more precisely, but without specifying what he was referring to. “I’m very worried about Pennsylvania. Philadelphia is known for electoral problems. You know it, we have known it for years… I am worried to see that the justice authorizes to exceed the deadline of November 3, (to count the bulletins sent by correspondence), that can cause problems. It is very dangerous for our country ”, declared the American president.

Several media have indicated that Donald Trump could announce his victory as early as Tuesday evening if he appeared at the top of the first results, even though the advance votes by correspondence had not yet been counted. A strategy that would aim to create confusion among voters. Earlier in the week, the US president said that as soon as the ballot was over, he would send his lawyers to Pennsylvania.

Enough to make the whole country fear a… legal battle. And maybe not that. Several governors have called for the deployment of the national guard, fearing violence on Tuesday evening. Barriers should also be erected in front of the White House in Washington DC.