Washington: After months of high-voltage campaigning in US presidential elections, the much-awaited election day is here.
The eve of Election Day 2020 was packed with rallies. US President Donald Trump visited four battlegrounds States Monday — North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — while his Democratic challenger Joe Biden spent his day in Pennsylvania supported by former President Barack Obama, who made stops in Florida and Ohio.
According to latest inputs, 10 crore Americans have already voted, another 6 crore likely to vote today.
Trump charged across the nation Monday, delivering without evidence his incendiary allegation that the election is rigged, while Democratic challenger Joe Biden pushed into states once seen as safely Republican, looking to secure his path to the White House.
Biden, on the other hand, focused on the coronavirus pandemic, saying “the first step to beating the virus is beating Donald Trump.”
According to data published by the New York Times, the highest volume of misinformation regarding in-mail voting has been floating in the battleground states. These states saw the most distortions and falsehoods about voting by mail between Sept. 1 and Oct. 29, according to Zignal Labs, a media insights company that tallied the likely misinformation mentions across online news outlets.
Polls will open and close across the US at different times Tuesday, anywhere after 6 am and before 9 pm local time.