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President Trump is giving a speech in Pennsylvania on the 3rd. On this day, he criticized mail-in voting, saying, "Even dogs and cats received ballots."
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[Asia Economy New York=Special Correspondent Baek Jong-min] With exactly 60 days left until the presidential election on November 3, U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden both visited battleground states on the 3rd (local time) to appeal for support. This is the first time since their official nomination as presidential candidates that both have visited battleground states on the same day.

The core of President Trump's effort to win votes in battleground states is mail-in voting. On this day, he visited Pennsylvania, which Biden had visited last week, and declared, "Dogs and cats also received ballots." This implies that when voting by mail, more ballots than voters could be distributed without any control. He claimed, "Everyone knows I am right. There are 8 million unwanted ballots." President Trump further fueled controversy by continuing to argue on Twitter for both mail-in and in-person voting on the same day.

President Trump also targeted Biden, who visited Kenosha, Wisconsin, where a shooting involving a Black individual occurred. He said, "Biden's plan is to appease domestic terrorists, but my plan is to arrest and prosecute them."

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On the same day, Biden, who visited Kenosha, met with the family of Jacob Blake, a Black man who was shot by police and paralyzed from the waist down, immediately upon arrival, showing a different approach from President Trump, who did not meet with them. Two days earlier, Trump had visited Kenosha, praising the police and National Guard's response to protests and focusing on law and order.

Biden gave a speech at Grace Lutheran Church and revealed that he had spoken with Blake for 15 minutes. Biden introduced, "Blake said that nothing can defeat him. Even if he cannot walk again, he will never give up." He added, "We have reached a point where we must address the original sin of this country, 400 years of slavery and all its traces," emphasizing, "Even if God makes me president tomorrow, I cannot guarantee that everything will be resolved within four years. Still, it is much better than Trump being re-elected."

On this day, U.S. media paid attention to the fact that both candidates gathered in key battleground states on the same day. The U.S. presidential election, which uses a winner-takes-all system, places more importance on winning battleground states where voter support shifts each election rather than traditional party strongholds. The Associated Press interpreted the candidates’ schedules as being "together in the closest places," highlighting the tense situation in battleground states and its decisive impact on the election outcome.

Both candidates are expected to continue their battleground state campaigns for the time being. Following Biden’s visit to Pennsylvania last week, he plans to visit Michigan next week. On the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, President Trump is scheduled to visit the memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Although Biden leads in nationwide polls, battleground states remain uncertain. According to a Quinnipiac University poll released on this day and reported by The New York Times, Biden holds an 8 percentage point lead over President Trump in Pennsylvania, but more than half of respondents support Trump’s economic performance, making the election outcome difficult to predict.

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