US ELECTION 2020: Trump campaigns in key state Pennsylvania

Melania Trump cancelled her first appearance on the campaign trail in over a year, citing a residual cough from COVID-19.
With two weeks until the November 3 election, the campaigns entered the final stretch of the race.
President Donald Trump campaigned in key battleground state Pennsylvania, while Joe Biden had no scheduled events before Thursday’s debate in Nashville.
Trump’s campaign said he would participate in the debate, despite protesting the topics and new rules muting mics.
Early voting began in closely watched Wisconsin, as well as Hawaii, Louisiana and Utah.
More than 31.6 million US voters have already cast ballots, according to the United States Elections Project tracker
Trump says would not have campaigned in Erie, Pennsylvania except for the pandemic
Speaking at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, President Trump said he would not have campaigned there had the coronavirus pandemic not hurt his re-election prospects.
“Four or five months ago when we started this whole thing, before the plague came in, I hadn’t been, I wasn’t coming to Erie,” Trump said.
“I mean, I have to be honest. There’s no way. I was coming. I didn’t have to. I would have called you and said, ‘Hey Erie, you know if you have a chance get out and vote’. We had this thing won,” Trump said.
“We were so far up. We had the greatest economy ever, the greatest jobs, greatest everything. And then we got hit with the plague. And I had to go back to work. Hello Erie, hey may I please have your vote. I love Erie,” he said.
Erie is a small but politically important city in Pennsylvania whose suburbs could swing the state to either Biden or Trump depending on which candidate voters choose. Biden campaigned in Erie on October 12.