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With three days of campaigning left before Election Day in the United States, President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden focused Saturday on battleground states, with Trump visiting Pennsylvania while the former vice president traveled to Michigan.
Biden attended events alongside former President Barack Obama for the first time during the campaign season. The two visited the cities of Flint and Detroit on Saturday, the first of two days the campaign will spend in Michigan to garner voter support.
Biden focused Saturday in Flint, Michigan, on Trump's handling of the pandemic.
"We're gonna beat this virus and get it under control, and the first step to doing that is beating Donald Trump," Biden said.
Biden's campaign issued a statement later Saturday in reaction to estimates by Stanford University that from June to September, Trump's rallies led to an additional 30,000 COVID-19 infections and as many as 700 deaths. The paper was based on a statistical model, not an investigation, and was not peer-reviewed.
"Trump doesn't even care about the very lives of his strongest supporters," Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement.
Trump's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Reuters. Politico reported that the White House called the study "flawed," describing it as a politicized attempt to shame Trump supporters.
Amesh Adalja, an infectious-diseases expert at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said it would be hard to completely isolate the specific impact of one event without robust contact trace data from the cases, Reuters reported.
Trump held four rallies Saturday in cities across Pennsylvania, where he narrowly won in 2016 and where recent polls showed Biden with a slight advantage.
Court criticism
Trump's first rally was in Newtown, where he criticized the U.S. Supreme Court for refusing a Republican Party effort to block a three-day extension for Pennsylvania election officials to receive absentee ballots, meaning the court would not intercede in the state's vote count.
"This is a horrible thing that the United States Supreme Court has done to our country," he said. "We have to know who won."
During his campaign swing across Pennsylvania, Trump issued a memorandum that called on the Department of Energy to lead a study on the effects of restricting fracking. Fracking for natural gas is a source of jobs in western Pennsylvania. Trump has accused Biden of planning to ban fracking if elected, something Biden denies.
National polls typically show Biden with a lead of 7 or 8 percentage points over Trump, although the margin is about half that in several key battleground states that are likely to determine the outcome in the Electoral College.
According to an average of major polls compiled by the website Real Clear Politics, Biden and Trump are virtually tied in the battleground states of Florida, Arizona and North Carolina, while the president trails the former vice president in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Americans are voting early for Tuesday's presidential election in unprecedented numbers, a product of strong feelings for or against the two main candidates and a desire to avoid large Election Day crowds at polling stations during the pandemic.
More than 90 million people had already voted as of midday Saturday, well above half the overall 2016 vote count of 138.8 million, according to the U.S. Elections Project.