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Politics
Mikey Smith

Joe Biden and wife Jill cast US election 2020 ballots early in Delaware

Joe Biden and his wife Jill cast their ballots today - joining 74 million Americans who have voted early in the 2020 election.

The frontrunner voted at the Carvel State Office Building in his home town of Wilmington, Delaware.

The Democratic candidate spent the day taking briefings on the COVID-19 pandemic and was scheduled to deliver a speech in Delaware.

He's expected to easily win his home state, with just six days to go until the November 3 election against President Donald Trump.

Trump, who has been holding more campaign events in battleground states amid rising coronavirus cases, voted for himself on Saturday at a public library across the street from one of his golf clubs in the battleground state of Florida.

He changed his residency from New York a year ago.

(REUTERS)

The number of people who have voted early represents more than 53% of the total turnout in the 2016 election, according to data compiled by the U.S. Elections Project at the University of Florida.

Delaware allows some early voting by appointment.

Biden holds a comfortable lead in national polls, which also show a public increasingly dismayed by Trump's handling of the largest public health crisis in U.S. living memory.

Polls in battleground states that might decide the election are tighter.

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