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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden made a final appeal to Pennsylvania voters on Election Day — including signing a wall in his childhood home — as President Trump visited his campaign headquarters in northern Virginia and first lady Melania Trump voted in Florida.

The president held five mega-rallies in an election eve sweep of swing states Monday and returned to the White House around 3 a.m. Tuesday. With voting underway, he visited his campaign office and planned for a possible Tuesday evening speech from the White House as Republicans pushed for heavy in-person turnout.

Former Vice President Biden is ahead in most national and swing-state polls and sought to defend his apparent advantage with a final trip to Scranton, Pa., where he lived as a child, and to Philadelphia, where riots and looting last week added uncertainty in the Democratic stronghold.

“From this house to the White House by the grace of God,” Biden wrote on the wall of his childhood home, according to a photo from his traveling press pool. He added his autograph and the date.

Trump fought hard to keep Pennsylvania in his column after a narrow 2016 win and often pointed out Biden moved away from the state when he was little. He hosted a large Scranton rally on Monday and spoke at four rallies across the state Saturday.

Biden, who campaigned little due to the COVID-19 pandemic, needs a strong showing in Pennsylvania’s urban areas and among black voters, whom his campaign reportedly is concerned about.

In Philadelphia, a masked Biden used a bullhorn to address a non-socially distanced group of supporters on Tuesday afternoon.

“We choose hope over fear! We choose truth over lies! We choose science over fiction! We can take this, I promise you,” Biden said in a rare in-person pep talk.

Trump, meanwhile, projected confidence surrounded by campaign staff in Virginia and gave a final televised appeal to black and Latino voters to break with Democrats.

“I think we’re going to have a great day, we’re going to have a great night and we’re going to have, much more importantly, we’re going to have a great four years,” Trump said.

But Trump acknowledged uncertainty, saying “Winning is easy. Losing is never easy, not for me it’s not.”

Trump’s final four days of rallies took him to the tight swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Iowa and Minnesota. He told thousands of tightly crowded backers that the polls again understate his support.

Joe Biden speaks to supporters in Scranton, Pa.Getty ImagesJoe Biden speaks to supporters in Scranton, Pa.Getty Images

Melania Trump on Tuesday morning voted in person in Palm Beach in the first couple’s adopted home state of Florida, which is essential to her husband’s re-election. Trump cast an early in-person ballot during a recent visit to Florida, which will report early and absentee votes Tuesday night, unlike some states where counting may take days.

“It’s Election Day, so I wanted to come here to vote today for the election,” the first lady told reporters.

Vice President Mike Pence, meanwhile, had nine interviews listed on his Tuesday schedule, including with Spanish-language Cada Tarde and Radio Mambi as the Republican ticket seeks to lock in polling gains among Latinos, especially in Florida.

More than 100 million people already voted early this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a vast increase over 2016, when about 139 million people voted total. Some states, including Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, may have significant delays counting ballots — potentially lasting days.

Democratic running mate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who is potentially the first black vice president, traveled Tuesday to Detroit, Mich., in an effort to flip the state that Trump narrowly won in 2016. Trump hosted two large rallies in Michigan on Monday.

‘The path to the White House and the path to determining who will be the next [resident of the United States, without question, runs through Michigan,” Harris told reporters on the tarmac of a Detroit-area airport.

“I’m just here to remind people in Detroit that, that they are seen and heard by Joe and me, and also that they may actually decide the outcome of this race.”

Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, will campaign for her in Columbus, Ohio.

Biden “will address the nation on Election Night in Wilmington, Delaware and be joined by Dr. [Jill] Biden, Senator Kamala Harris, and Doug Emhoff,” according to guidance from the campaign.

Several hundred Trump guests are expected at the White House on Tuesday evening.

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