More than 2.4 million voters in Florida, a critical battleground state, have already cast their ballots by mail.

President Trump hosted a rally in Georgia on Friday night, in a sign of the shifting electoral map.

Some Senate Republicans are beginning to publicly distance themselves from the president.

Biden campaign advises caution, again, even as national polls favor the Democrat: ‘We need to campaign like we’re trailing.’.

Mail voting in Florida surpasses primary levels with more than 2.4 million ballots returned.

If he loses the election, Trump mused Friday, ‘Maybe I’ll have to leave the country.’.

Biden Jr.’s campaign is urgently warning against complacency in the final stretch of the race despite national and some state polling showing a wide Democratic lead over President Trump.

“We also know that even the best polling can be wrong, and that variables like turnout mean that in a number of critical states we are functionally tied — and that we need to campaign like we’re trailing.”.

“If we learned anything from 2016, it’s that we cannot underestimate Donald Trump or his ability to claw his way back into contention in the final days of a campaign, through whatever smears or underhanded tactics he has at his disposal,” she added.

She predicted that the Trump campaign would throw “the kitchen sink at us” in the remaining weeks and pressed supporters to volunteer and to continue donating.

In a sign of the shifting electoral map, and the rising prospect of a Democratic rout, President Trump brought his re-election campaign to a conservative region in a traditionally conservative state less than three weeks before the election.

Trump must maximize his vote share and turnout in smaller metropolitan and rural areas across the state.

And unless Republicans turn around their fortunes in places like Atlanta, they will run out of voters in communities like Macon to make up for it — and soon they will be singing the “Statesboro Blues.”.

With 17 days remaining before the election, more than 2.4 million voters in Florida, a critical battleground state, have already cast their ballots by mail, surpassing the total number of votes cast by mail during the primaries this year.

In that report, officials also said that more than 3.3 million mail ballots have yet to be returned.

About 2.7 million people voted by mail in Florida in 2016, according to state records.

Of the mail ballots that have already been returned, roughly half were sent in by Democrats, 30 percent by Republicans and the remaining 20 percent by voters with no party affiliation.

As of Saturday morning, registered Democrats had returned about 460,000 more mail ballots than Republicans had.

Roughly 800,000 more Democrats than Republicans have requested mail ballots over all.

With 29 electoral votes, Florida is the largest battleground state and one of the most closely watched heading into Election Day.

In a sign of just how important the state is to the outcome of the election, both candidates are campaigning hard there down the homestretch.

President Trump chose to campaign in the state on Monday after his recent hospitalization for Covid-19.

Trump’s town-hall-style event was held in the state and Vice President Mike Pence held two events there the same day.

Biden’s running mate, is expected to travel to Florida on Monday for the first day of in-person early voting.

Trump won Florida narrowly in 2016 on his way to the White House, but polling averages have shown Mr.

Trump was likely to lose and that Republicans who have stood with him would face steep repercussions for having done so.

Sasse said Republicans in the future would be asking themselves, “What the heck were any of us thinking, that selling a TV-obsessed, narcissistic individual to the American people was a good idea?”.

Trump’s loss in the presidential election could also cost their party its majority in the Senate.

For nearly four years, congressional Republicans have ducked and dodged an unending stream of offensive statements and norm-shattering behavior from President Trump, ignoring his caustic and scattershot Twitter feed and penchant for flouting party orthodoxy and standing by quietly as he abandoned military allies, attacked American institutions and stirred up racist and nativist fears.

But now, less than three weeks away from the election, facing grim polling numbers and a flood of Democratic money and enthusiasm that has imperiled their majority in the Senate, Republicans on Capitol Hill are beginning to publicly put distance between themselves and the president.

Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, one of the president’s most vocal allies, predicted that the president could very well lose the White House, and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas recently warned of a “Republican blood bath of Watergate proportions.”.

“Voters are set to drive the ultimate wedge between Senate Republicans and Trump,” said Alex Conant, a former aide to Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and a former White House spokesman.

Republicans could very well hang onto both the White House and Senate, and Mr.

But the recent behavior of congressional Republicans has offered an answer to the long-pondered question of whether there was ever a point when Republicans might repudiate a president who so frequently said and did things that undermined their principles and message.

Ernst, 50, finds herself in a tough re-election race that is emblematic of her party’s struggle to keep the Senate majority with a weakened President Trump at the top of the ticket.

Senator David Perdue, Republican of Georgia, tried to energize supporters ahead of a rally on Friday for President Trump in Macon, Ga., by mocking the first name of Senator Kamala Harris of California, his colleague in the Senate for nearly four years.

Trump said her name incorrectly, as did multiple speakers during the Republican National Convention in August.

Perdue’s campaign said in a statement on Friday evening that the senator had “simply mispronounced Senator Harris’s name, and he didn’t mean anything by it.”.

Perdue faces a surprisingly tough race for re-election against Jon Ossoff, a Democrat who became a party star after coming surprisingly close to winning a special election for a House seat in 2017.

During her 2016 Senate race, she even created a campaign video showing young children explaining how to pronounce her first name correctly.

Biden and Democrats in Washington have tried to tie the Supreme Court vacancy to the future of the Affordable Care Act, which the Trump administration is seeking to overturn in a case that will be heard by the court shortly after the election.

Biden said during his speech on Friday, as he laced into President Trump for trying to overturn it.

Biden delivered his remarks in Southfield reflects the push his campaign is making to engage Black voters, a crucial voting bloc for Democrats, who helped fuel former President Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012.

Amid a raging virus, struggling economy and unrest over racial injustice, President Trump focused on his re-election campaign, recasting some of his failures as a candidate as active choices during a rally Friday evening in Macon, Ga.

Trump threatened to leave the country should he lose the election.

Trump tried to argue that he was opting against raising more money as he enters the final stretch of the election.

Biden’s campaign and affiliated Democratic committees.

“I used to go and I’d imitate a president who’s playing presidential — it’s so easy compared to what we do,” he said.

“I said, ‘I can be more presidential than any president in our history with the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln when he wore the hat, that’s tough to beat.’”.

Trump, but recent polling indicates that it could be closer than some Republicans would like

Trump said