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Former President Barack Obama campaigned for Joe Biden during a drive-in rally located in Miami, according to Fox News.
“Ten days Miami,” Obama warned.
“10 days until the most important election in our lifetime. This election requires every single one of us. What we do in these next 10 days will matter for decades to come.”
“At least 220,000 Americans are dead. More than 100,000 small businesses have closed. Half a million jobs are gone right here in Florida.”
“I understand the president is coming to Florida today. You think he’s hard at work coming up with a plan to get us out of this mess? … He doesn’t have a plan. He doesn’t even acknowledge the reality of what’s taking place all across the country.”
President Trump voted early in West Palm Beach.
After he voted, he confirmed that he cast his vote for “a guy named Trump.”
Trump told reporters “It’s an honor to be voting, it’s an honor to be in this great area that I know so well. There’s tremendous spirit. I hear we are doing very well in Florida, and we’re doing very well, I hear, every place else.”
Mike Pence said, “Here in Florida, you believe we could be strong again. You believe we could be prosperous again. You said yes to President Donald Trump in 2016. And I know that Florida is going to say yes to President Donald Trump in 2020,” at a campaign rally in Lakeland, Florida.
The Trump-Pence ticket won Florida by 1.2% in 2016, or just under 113,000 votes, according to Fox News.
Barack Obama warned the attendees, “If you bring Florida home, this thing’s over.”
From Fox News:
Barack Obama campaigned for Biden at a drive-in rally in Miami Saturday as both Biden and Trump make a final push for Florida.
The former president encouraged voters to cast their ballots early either with a mail-in ballot or at early voting sites across the state.
It will likely be just as close in 2020. According to a RealClearPolitics average of polls, Biden is slightly ahead of Trump 48.6% to 47.1% right now.
— Advertisement — Voter turnout is also on track to break records this year, as 5,288,965 Florida residents already had voted by mail or in person at early voting sites as of Saturday morning, according to the state’s Division of Elections.
Before Obama spoke at the rally in Miami, he made a surprise stop at a Democratic volunteer location to make it clear just how important the swing state is this year.
