Coronavirus surging in every key swing state as voters head to polls
Source: ABC News
With Election Day just hours away, coronavirus cases are rising in every key political battleground state around the country, according to an ABC News analysis, a striking reality that highlights the inextricable link between the pandemic and the 2020 race for president, despite Donald Trump's best efforts to refocus the conversation elsewhere.
Deaths and hospitalizations are rising as well.
The outbreak is hitting in record numbers nationwide -- but the virus is spreading faster in cases per population in many hotly contested states, including Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Ohio, Wisconsin and Texas, according to the analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University.
Just this week, Pennsylvania, one of the most likely tipping points in the election, broke its single-day new case record this week with over cases 2,700 reported -- the highest since the start of the pandemic. In Wisconsin, there have been more than 150,000 new cases in just the past two months -- nearly double all the cases reported from March through the end of August combined.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/coronavirus-surging-key-swing-state-voters-head-polls/story?id=73963121
Hell of a closing argument with these surges being fueled in part by Trump's super spreader rallies.
grumpyduck
(6,231 posts)You can't fix stupid.
Evolve Dammit
(16,723 posts)BlueNProud
(1,048 posts)FakeNoose
(32,620 posts)Anybody who knows what's happening, has to be already decided for this election.
To the voters who haven't made up their mind ... vote for Biden, what have you got to lose?
RussBLib
(9,006 posts)It could be a long, hard road for those Trumpers who are far down the rabbit hole to find their way back to reality. Some will never arrive.