The president of the United States, Joe Biden voted early this Monday in the state of Delaware, where he resides, eight days before the elections. Although the president was initially going to face Republican Donald Trump on November 5, Biden announced in July that he was withdrawing from the re-election race to support Kamala Harris.
The president arrived around noon (local time) at the polling station, located in the municipality of New Castle, near Wilmington, where Biden has his private residence. He had a hundred people ahead of him, so had to wait in line for several minutes before casting your ballot. Meanwhile, according to Efe, he has taken advantage of the wait to greet and chat with the voters who approached him.
Biden has arrived accompanied by Democratic Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester, now a Senate candidate for Delaware. Before, both had had breakfast for more than an hour at a restaurant in the state.
Trump and Harris, very even in the polls
At least 41.9 million of Americans They voted early on Sunday. in the Presidential elections, in which the Democratic vice president, Kamala Harris, and the former Republican president Donald Trump (2017-2021) compete.
For the first time since August, the former Republican president has ahead of his opponent in the polls, who, however, They are very close between the two candidates to the American Presidency.
Biden, who withdrew from the presidential race in July under pressure from heavyweights within his party, has been more or less left out of the electoral campaign of his vice president, who, despite having been the president’s right-hand man for four years, has wanted to show itself as an option for the future.