In Final Stretch, Candidates Chart Divergent Courses for America’s Future

On the final Sunday before Election Day, President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden delivered their final appeals to voters at campaign rallies in top battleground states and laid out disparate agendas for the future of the United States. Trump zigzagged on Nov. 1, speaking at rallies in Michigan, Iowa, and North Carolina before our press deadline. The incumbent Republican president was scheduled to then speak to crowds in Georgia and Florida, for a total of five rallies in a single day. Biden delivered two brief speeches at drive-in events in Pennsylvania and was scheduled to participate in a “finance event” the same evening. The atmosphere of the events was as divergent as the two candidates’ visions for the future of the nation. Thousands of jubilant supporters poured into Trump’s densely packed outdoor rallies, with the president speaking for over an hour at each event. Biden’s events were …