Trump plans to vote early on Saturday in Florida as he prepares for final debate

US President Donald Trump will cast an early vote in the presidential election while he is visiting Florida this weekend, White House spokesman Judd Deere said on Thursday.

The Republican president plans to vote in West Palm Beach, Florida, where his Mar-a-Lago estate is situated, on Saturday, according to Deere.

This comes as he is preparing for the third and final presidential debate against his Democratic rival Joe Biden and also as he is trying to close a big gap in opinion polls before the Nov. 3 election.

Trump trails Biden significantly in national polls and needs to score some hits in the debate to steady his campaign that is struggling, in part because of his mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic.

US polls narrowing as Trump surges closer

The United States elections are in less than two weeks and multiple polls show that voter support for Donald Trump dramatically increased in October.

According to polls, there are relatively few voters who have yet to make up their minds as Americans have cast more than 47 million votes for the election.

That eclipses total early voting from the 2016 presidential election with 12 days to go, according to data compiled by the US Elections Project.

Nearly 47.095 million Americans have turned in ballots, almost eight times the number of early votes cast at around same point before the 2016 contest, and just over the 47.015 million early votes that were cast before Election Day in that year.

Now ahead of their final debate, Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said the president would raise Biden’s long record in politics, as well as his family’s business dealings.

“The clear message is that President Trump has accomplished more in 47 months than Joe Biden has in 47 years. The president built the world’s best economy once and is already doing it a second time. Trump is still the political outsider, while Biden is the ultimate insider,” Murtaugh said.

The topics to be discussed will include the coronavirus, race relations, climate change and national security. However, the Trump campaign asserted that the entire debate should be focused on foreign policy.

In Pennsylvania, Trump touts the economy and warns of 'Biden depression'

Trump said he needed a second term in the White House to ensure a successful recovery from the novel coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout.

The president, hospitalized with the highly contagious novel coronavirus days after his first debate with Biden, tested negative for COVID-19 on Thursday.

He arrived in Nashville ahead of Thursday’s presidential debate at Belmont University to take part in the debate that begins at 8 p.m. local time and is expected to last 90 minutes.

Their second presidential debate was canceled after Trump refused to participate virtually following his COVID-19 diagnosis.

The first debate was widely criticized for descending into an angry shouting match, with Trump frequently hectoring and interrupting, prompting Biden to tell him to "shut up" as the two fought over COVID-19, healthcare and the struggling economy.

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