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US Election 2020: Biden and Trump hit swing states

Donald Trump and Joe Biden have been travelling across the nation as the US election enters its closing stage.

President Trump visited five battleground states while his challenger Mr Biden spoke at a campaign event in Pennsylvania.

The Democratic candidate maintains a solid national lead in the polls ahead of Tuesday's general election.

But this advantage is narrower in key states which could decide the result.

More than 90 million people have already cast their ballots in early voting, putting the country on course for its highest turnout in a century.

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The election comes amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The US has recorded more cases and more deaths than any other country worldwide, reporting more than 99,000 infections on Saturday alone.

Top virus expert Anthony Fauci has sharply criticised the Trump administration's handling of the pandemic, drawing a rebuke from the White House on Sunday.

Speaking in Washington, a town in Michigan north of Detroit, Mr Trump told his supporters that under his leadership "the economy is now growing at the fastest rate ever recorded".

He predicted he would take the state again as he did in 2016, and said that the state known for its car manufacturing "didn't have any auto plants four years ago" when he was elected. "We brought back your car industry. Your car industry was finished. You would have had nothing left," he said.

At a later rally in Dubuque, Iowa - joined by high-profile supporters like his daughter Ivanka and aide Hope Hicks - Mr Trump promised secure borders and more conservative judges in the courts.

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Addressing Covid-19, he told supporters they had a choice between a "deadly Biden lockdown" or "a safe vaccine that ends the pandemic".

His comments came after Dr Fauci, head of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told the Washington Post newspaper that the US is "in for a whole lot of hurt" in the coming months.

"All the stars are aligned in the wrong place as you go into the fall and winter season, with people congregating at home indoors," he told the paper.