U.S. President Donald Trump sought to boost his standing in the battleground state of Florida on Friday by reaching out to seniors, while rival Joe Biden blasted Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic on a tour of the swing state of Michigan.
The two men are focusing their campaigns on the closely-fought states that are expected to determine the winner of the Nov. 3 election. After spending the day in Florida, Trump held a rally in Georgia, traditionally a Republican stronghold.
Early voting is shattering records, with more than 23 million Americans having already cast ballots. Trump, a Republican, lags in opinion polls and the latest figures from his campaign show he is also behind in fundraising as the race intensifies with 18 days to go before Election Day.
Trump and the Republican National Committee raised some $247.8 million in September, his campaign manager said on Twitter, well behind the $383 million haul of Biden and the Democratic Party.
At an indoor event with a crowd of seniors in Fort Myers, Florida, Trump expressed some uncharacteristic empathy for those who have lost family members to COVID-19.
“My heart breaks for every grieving family that has lost a precious loved one.
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I feel their anguish. I mourn their loss. I feel their pain,” said Trump, who recently recovered from his own bout with the disease.
Biden has lambasted Trump for often playing down the seriousness of the crisis, and has knocked the administration for seeking to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Biden, a Democrat, has shown strength with senior voters, many of whom have faulted Trump for his response to the health crisis.
Trump again asserted that the country was “rounding the turn” on the outbreak, now in its eighth month, even as the number of U.S. cases crossed 8 million on Thursday, rising by 1 million in less than a month.
“If I have the honor of becoming your president, we’ll build on the Affordable Care Act, no matter what they do,” Biden said at an event in Michigan.