Donald Trump set off on Sunday on an eleventh-hour blitz of five crucial swing states, as polls showed the president continuing to lag behind Democrat Joe Biden with less than 72 hours until polls close.
As of Sunday morning, more than 92m ballots had been cast in the election, according to the US Elections Project, a database compiled by Michael McDonald, a professor at the University of Florida. That figure represents more than two-thirds of the total votes cast in 2016, signalling massive turnout.
“This is a 100-year flood of voters that we were seeing,” Nate Persily, a professor at Stanford Law School and former senior research director for the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, told NBC News on Sunday. He predicted up to 160m Americans would vote in the election, compared to 136.5m in 2016.