19/10/2020
US ELECTION: TRUMP AND BIDEN CAMPAIGN IN STATES THEY HOPE TO FLIP
President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden have kicked off the final stretch of the election season with campaign events in states they both hope to flip on November 3.
With just more than two weeks before the election, Trump began on Sunday in Nevada, making a rare visit to church before an evening rally in Carson City. Once considered a battleground, Nevada has not swung for a Republican presidential contender since 2004. Hillary Clinton won the state by just 2.4 percentage points in 2016.
Meanwhile, Biden, a practising Catholic, attended mass in Delaware before campaigning in North Carolina, where a Democrat has not won in the White House race since Barack Obama in 2008. Trump won the state by 3.6 percentage points in 2016.
Both candidates are trying to make inroads in states that could help secure a path to victory, but the dynamics of the race are remarkably stable. Biden enjoys a significant advantage in national polls, with the RealClearPolitics news site showing the former vice president leading by an average of 9 percentage points nationally. Biden has a smaller edge in battleground surveys.