Trump and Biden cede stage to voters for election day verdict

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Americans will head to the ballot box today to decide between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They will select a leader to steer a nation battered by a surging pandemic that has killed more than 230&comma;000 people&comma; cost millions their jobs and reshaped daily life&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nearly 100 million Americans have voted early and now it falls to election day voters to finish the job&comma; ending a campaign that was reshaped by the coronavirus and defined by tensions over who could best address it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Each candidate declared the other fundamentally unfit to lead a nation grappling with Covid-19 and facing foundational questions about racial justice and economic fairness&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Biden entered election day with multiple paths to victory while Mr Trump&comma; playing catch-up in a number of battleground states&comma; had a narrower&comma; but still feasible road to clinch 270 Electoral College votes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Control of the Senate was at stake&comma; too&colon; Democrats need to net three seats if Mr Biden captures the White House to gain control of all of Washington for the first time in a decade&period; The House was expected to remain under Democratic control&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Voters face long lines and the threat of the virus as they choose between two starkly different visions of America for the next four years&period; The record-setting early vote — and legal skirmishing over how it will be counted — drew unsupported allegations of fraud from Mr Trump&comma; who refused to guarantee he would honour the election’s result&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fighting to the end for every vote&comma; Mr Biden was headed to Philadelphia and his native Scranton on Tuesday as part of a closing get-out-the-vote effort before awaiting election results in his hometown of Wilmington&comma; Delaware&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His running mate&comma; Senator Kamala Harris&comma; was visiting Detroit in the battleground state of Michigan&period; Both of their spouses were headed out&comma; too&comma; as the Democrats reached for a clear victory&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump&comma; after a morning appearance on Fox News&comma; plans to visit his campaign headquarters in Virginia&period; He invited hundreds of supporters to an election-night party in the East Room of the White House&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The hard-fought campaign left voters on both sides eager to move on&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">The Supreme Court decision on voting in Pennsylvania is a VERY dangerous one&period; It will allow rampant and unchecked cheating and will undermine our entire systems of laws&period; It will also induce violence in the streets&period; Something must be done&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Donald J&period; Trump &lpar;&commat;realDonaldTrump&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;realDonaldTrump&sol;status&sol;1323430341512622080&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">November 3&comma; 2020<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I just want it to be done&comma;” said Starlet Holden&comma; a 26-year-old from Queens&comma; New York&comma; who planned to vote for Mr Biden but spoke for many on both sides of the campaign&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On their final full day on the campaign trail&comma; Mr Trump and Mr Biden broke sharply over the mechanics of the vote itself while visiting the most fiercely contested battleground&comma; Pennsylvania&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The president threatened legal action to block the counting of ballots received after election day&period; If Pennsylvania ballot counting takes several days&comma; as is allowed&comma; Mr Trump claimed without evidence that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;cheating can happen like you have never seen”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In fact&comma; there are roughly 20 states that allow mail-in ballots received after election day to be counted — up to nine days and longer in some states&period; Litigation has centred on just a few where states have made changes in large part due to coronavirus&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Biden told voters in Pennsylvania that the very fabric of the nation was at stake and offered his own election as the firmest rebuke possible to a president whom he said had spent &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;four years dividing us at every turn”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;159423" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-159423" style&equals;"width&colon; 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