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President Trump and Joe Biden are tied in Georgia, a New York Times/Siena College poll found, and Democrats are gaining in both Senate races there. Crowds gathered for Wisconsin’s first day of in-person voting and Florida broke a record for early voting.

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In latest F.E.C. filing, Trump campaign’s cash on hand has dwindled.

President Trump made a stop in Santa Ana, Calif., on Sunday, for a fund-raiser in between two campaign stops in Nevada.
President Trump made a stop in Santa Ana, Calif., on Sunday, for a fund-raiser in between two campaign stops in Nevada.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
President Trump’s re-election campaign committee ended September with only $63.1 million in the bank despite canceling some television buys late last month, leaving him badly outmatched financially against Joseph R. Biden Jr., who reported $177.3 million in cash on hand for the final stretch of the campaign.

New filings with the Federal Election Commission showed the extent of Mr. Trump’s cash troubles, which are severe enough that he diverted time from key battleground states and flew to California on Sunday for a fund-raiser with just over two weeks until Election Day. The president ended September with just over half as much money as he had at the beginning of the month.

While Mr. Trump’s campaign and its shared committees with the Republican National Committee have raised $1.5 billion since the start of 2019, the disclosures late Tuesday showed that his main re-election committee — the account that must pay for many of the race’s most important costs, including most television ads — had only a small slice remaining.

All told, Mr. Trump’s campaign and its shared committees with the R.N.C. had $251.4 million entering October, compared with the $432 million that Mr. Biden’s campaign and its joint accounts with the Democratic National Committee had in the bank.

Fortunes have reversed sharply from this spring, when Mr. Trump and the Republicans had nearly $190 million more in the bank than Mr. Biden and the Democrats did when he emerged as the presumptive Democratic nominee. Now, entering October, Mr. Biden had close to triple as much of the most flexible campaign dollars as the president.

“The Trump campaign has all the resources we need going into the homestretch of this election,” said Samantha Zager, a spokeswoman for Mr. Trump’s campaign.

She added, “As Hillary Clinton proved when she outspent us two to one in 2016, no amount of money can buy the presidency.”

Speaking in Pennsylvania on Tuesday night, Mr. Trump tried to excuse the state of his fund-raising operation. “I could be the king of all fund-raisers,” claimed Mr. Trump, whose campaign has aggressively pursued large contributors, saying he simply did not want to “owe them.”

Democrats took glee at the diminished size of a war chest that Mr. Trump’s former campaign manager once compared to the Death Star from “Star Wars.” The campaign arm of House Democrats, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, issued a news release with the subject line “DCCC Has More COH Than Trump Campaign,” referring to cash on hand.

— Shane Goldmacher and Rachel Shorey
Trump says before coronavirus he never planned on campaigning in Erie, Pa. ‘We had this thing won.’

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