As of this morning, over 95 million votes have already been cast, about 70% of the total votes cast in the 2016 election, with expectations that it will reach over 100 million by election day morning.. Given that Trump has been bad-mouthing early voting, it is likely that it is his supporters who will dominate in the in-person voting numbers and those are the tallies that will be reported early in the counting process.
As is always the case, the last day before an election sees candidates in a frenzy of holding campaign rallies and advertising blitzes in an effort to sway those election day in-person voters. Today Trump is holding five rallies in four states (North Carolina, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan) and while Joe Biden is slightly less frenetic and going to just two states (Ohio and Pennsylvania). All these states were won by Trump in 2016.
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