Biden leads over Trump nationally, and in the swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida and Iowa, states Trump won in 2016....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest

                              

 President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.

By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief. Coleman trained for 17 years as a reporter with the Call and Post Newspaper and is an investigative and political reporter with a background in legal and scientific reporting. She is also a former 15-year public school biology teacher.

CLEVELAND, Ohio-As the Nov. 3 presidential election nears, President Donald Trump lags behind Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden by five percentage points in Ohio, Biden also leading in neighboring Pennsylvania, and in Florida and Iowa, a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday reveals.

All four states are swing states Trump won in 2016, states also that Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president and Trump's predecessor, won in 2008 and, in 2012 when he won reelection.

Biden also leads over Trump in national polls by eight points, 52-44 percent, a decrease from 10 points in October where he topped the president 53-43 percent.

According to a New York Times report, some 75 million Americans have already voted, either by mail or early in person.

The president's campaign, however, is eyeing Minnesota, New Hampshire and Nevada in hopes of an unlikely electoral college victory next month, the presidential election just three days away with Trump's biggest problem being his mishandling of the coronavirus.

Ohio has reported more than 213,000 confirmed cases and 5, 291 deaths since the pandemic broke out in the U.S. in early March, the growing pandemic worse now more than ever in America.

The deadly virus for which there is no vaccine has spread to all 50 states and Washington, D.C. and the nation has nearly 9.2 million reported cases and some 230,000 people dead,  worldwide figures showing that there are 45.5 million cases globally and roughly 1.2 million deaths.

There  official unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is roughly at eight percent, which equates to about 12.6 million people, Blacks, who have been disproportionately impacted by the virus, with a rate double that of their White counterparts. 

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.