Donald Trump
Voters in regions of the United States with a particularly high death rate from the novel coronavirus infection were more likely to be more supportive of President Donald Trump than in previous elections. This is evidenced by the data calculated in the Bloomberg edition.
An analysis of almost 2.7 thousand regions showed that in the 10 percent of the US counties hardest hit by the coronavirus, Trump, on average, voted 2.8 percent more than in 2016. The authors do not state directly, but they suggest that this may be due to the attitude towards masks: the Republican governors did not introduce a mandatory mask regime in their states.
Earlier, the lawyer of US President Donald Trump Rudolph Giuliani said about possible plans to file a lawsuit in the elections at the federal level. He also promised to look for “dead souls” in elections in Pennsylvania, specifically in Philadelphia, noting that it “has a reputation for being a city of electoral fraud.”
In the United States, the counting of votes for candidates for the presidency of the country continues. Election day was November 3, but this year, due to the pandemic, voters could also vote by mail, requesting a ballot in advance. The current US president, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, who served as vice president under Barack Obama, are fighting for the post of head of state. In many states, the difference between applicants is a fraction of a percent.
Over the past day, 104,004 new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in the country. In total, more than 9.4 million people were infected in the United States. India (8.3 million cases) and Brazil (5.5 million cases) are next in the ranking with the highest number of cases of COVID-19 infection. Russia ranks fourth.
Worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University, there are more than 47.9 million cases.
