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Over 95 million Americans have already voted before US Election Day

Former US President Barack Obama speaks at a Get Out the Vote rally as he campaigns for Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden in Atlanta, Georgia on November 2, 2020. / AFP / Elijah Nouvelage

More than 95 million Americans have already cast ballots one day before Election Day, according to an estimate by the US Elections Project at the University of Florida.

According to a Reuters report, as of Monday nearly million Americans have voted in the 2020 presidential race between US President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

The figure amounts to nearly 70 percent of all those cast in the 2016 general election, in which Trump could gain an electoral victory against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Trump has attacked vote-by-mail system, describing the US electoral process as “rigged.”

A Quinnipiac poll released Monday found Biden ahead 47 percent to Trump's 42 percent in Florida. It also found the former vice president with a net positive approval rating compared to underwater approvals for Trump, consistent with national polling trends.

Biden also leads Trump 47 percent to 43 percent among likely voters in the key state of Ohio.

This is while legal battles are already popping up across the states.

Accord t oFiveThirtyEight.com founder Nate Sliver, Biden will become “an underdog" if he doesn't win Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes on the Tuesday election.

“Pennsylvania has not bumped up to a 7- or 8-point Biden lead like we see in Michigan and Wisconsin,” Silver said. "It’s not a big early voting state, so a lot of votes have not yet been cast in Pennsylvania.”

A RealClearPolitics index of major polls in the state has the Biden lead at 2.9 points.


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