Millions of voters braved coronavirus concerns and long lines to
choose between President Trump and Democratic challenger Biden in an epic
election that will influence how the US confronts everything
US
Election 2020: Millions
of voters braved coronavirus concerns and occasional long lines on Tuesday to
choose between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden in an
epic election that will influence how the US confronts everything from the
pandemic to race relations for years to come.
Those who turned
out in person joined 102 million fellow Americans who voted days or weeks
earlier, a record number that represented 73 per cent of the total vote in the
2016 presidential election.
Spirits were high
-- and positive -- in many polling places after a long, exceptionally divisive
campaign.
"The most
important issue is for us to set aside our personal differences that we have
with each other," said Eboni Price, 29, who rode her horse Moon to her
polling place in a northwest Houston neighbourhood.
Biden entered
Election Day with multiple paths to victory, while Trump, playing catch-up in a
number of battleground states, had a narrower but still feasible road to clinch
270 Electoral College votes. Control of the Senate was at stake, too: Democrats
needed to net three seats if Biden captured the White House to gain control of
all of Washington for the first time in a decade. The House was expected to
remain under Democratic control.
With the worst
public health crisis in a century still fiercely present, the pandemic -- and Donald
Trump's handling of it -- was the inescapable focus for 2020.
The president
began his day on an upbeat note, predicting that he would do even better than
in 2016. But during a midday visit to his campaign headquarters, he spoke in a
gravelly, subdued tone.
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