[Music] with the start of mail and voting about 2 months before the actual election date US vice president kamla Harris and former president Donald Trump have heated up the election race especially in the swing States following their contentious debate the Democratic candidate arrived in Pennsylvania while her Republican opponent headed to Arizona although the elections will be held on November 5th absentee voting has already begun in Alabama followed by Pennsylvania with early in-person voting starting next Monday then Wisconsin Minnesota South Dakota and Virginia it's noteworthy that September 21st is also the federal deadline for mailing all absentee ballots to Military and overseas voters this month we'll also see the start of similar voting processes in North Carolina Mississippi Michigan and Nebraska in conjunction with Trump's announcement that he would not participate in an additional debate with kamla Harris the Democratic campaign reported raising $47 million within the first 24 hours after Harris's only debate with Trump last Tuesday this amount is likely to widen the growing financial gap between the two campaigns especially as Harris already had a significant financial advantage over Trump as September began her campaign reported having $44 million cash on hand while Trump had $295 million nonetheless kamla Harris 59 years old emphasized in North Carolina that voters deserve a second debate but Trump 78 years old refused to engage in a new Faceoff claiming that he had won the first one Trump's campaign did not release any fundraising figures after the debate while several of his major donors expressed concern about his performance and how it could at least hurt large fundraising efforts the biggest number his team announced over a 24-hour period came after his felony conviction in May when they raised about $53 million online on the same day Banker Timothy melon also donated $50 million to a prot trump political action committee