Events

Thursday puts the nation five days away from Election Day, with Trump and Biden expected to make stops.

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President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden are in the home stretch of this election. Refresh this blog all day for updates as the candidates make their final push. 
Poll: 3 of 4 voters worried about violence ahead of Election Day, Biden leads Trump
Americans are increasingly worried about what will happen at the finish line of this year’s tumultuous election, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds, including whether the voting will be peaceful and the outcome broadly accepted.
Three of 4 voters express concern about the possibility of violence on Election Day. Only 1 in 4 say they are “very confident” that the nation will have a peaceful transfer of power if Democratic challenger Joe Biden defeats President Donald Trump. 
Biden holds a steady 8-point lead over Trump in the nationwide poll, 52%-44%, taken after the final presidential debate last Thursday. That reflects little change since the survey taken at Labor Day, the launch of the fall campaign season, when the former vice president led by 7 points, 50%-43%.
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USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll: Ahead of Election Day, 3 of 4 voters worry about violence in a divided nation
We’re five days away
There are now just five days to Election Day, and approximately 75 million people have already voted, according to numbers compiled by @electproject.
However, millions of mail ballots are still outstanding, and the date the USPS recommends to mail them back to make state deadlines has passed. Officials stress those ballots now be dropped off in person.
Voters in Oklahoma can head to the polls starting Thursday for early voting, and it is the last day to register to vote in Nevada. 
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Where are the candidates heading Thursday?
Both candidates and their running mates are expecting to be busy again on Thursday. Here’s a quick look at the schedules. 

  • Florida: Both Former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump will hold events in Tampa.
  • Trump will also hold a rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a state that is closely contested in the polls and with a crucial Senate race.
  • Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Des Moines, Iowa and Reno, Nevada. Officials in Nevada have warned against hosting an event of more than 250 people due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Sen. Kamala Harris will hold a virtual fundraiser at 7:15 p.m with no travel

More: Trumps campaign made stops nationwide. Coronavirus cases surged in his wake in at least five places.
Voting updates:
There are still many details and battles to work through in several states as voting becomes increasingly scrutinized. Wednesday saw a handful of major developments. 

  •  The Supreme Court refused for a second time Wednesday to change Pennsylvania’s election rules, handing Republicans a defeat in their effort to reimpose an Election Day deadline for the return of absentee ballots. The unsigned order means that for now, ballots received by Nov. 6 will be counted.
  • SCOTUS also refused on Wednesday to second-guess election rules in North Carolina, a key battleground state, that allow absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted if they arrive up to nine days later. 
  • Polls show Biden ahead of Trump in Wisconsin and Michigan, and slightly leading the president in Georgia.

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