President Donald Trump cast his ballot for the 202o election early and in-person on Oct. 24 in West Palm Beach, Florida, after telling rally-goers a day earlier that he likes to vote in person, saying, “I’m old fashioned, I guess.”
Trump cast his ballot at a polling station at a public library near his Mar-a-Lago golf club.
“I voted for a guy named Trump,” the president told reporters afterward.
Several hundred supporters gathered with flags and signs outside the library, chanting “four more years.”
“It was a very secure vote, much more secure than when you send in a ballot,” Trump said, repeating his often-repeated message that mail-in voting is more prone to fraud.
At an Oct. 23 rally in The Villages retirement community in Florida, Trump touched on a number of topics in making a case for his reelection, framing the choice as being between “a Trump super-recovery and a Biden depression.”
Trump referred to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s comments at the Oct. 22 debate, when the former vice president warned of a COVID-19 “dark winter.”
“It’s a choice between optimism, patriotic vision for American success, or Joe Biden’s dark, dismal, gloomy—did you hear what he said last night about darkness?” the president told rally-goers. “Darkness, always darkness. What I'd say—gloomy vision. We’re about the American dream.”
“We’re about to go into a dark winter, a dark winter, and he has no clear plan. And there’s no prospect that there’s going to be a vaccine available for the majority of the American people before the middle of next year,” Biden said.
Trump countered the claim by saying, “I don’t think we’re going to have a dark winter at all. We’re opening up our country. We’ve learned and studied and understand the disease, which we didn’t at the beginning,” before insisting that a vaccine is imminent.
At the Oct. 23 rally, Trump said, “I’m always here to protect you, and love, cherish, defend our nation.”
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