US President Joe Biden has voted early in the presidential election, with just about a week to go before polling day.
The president, who dropped his re-election bid in July, has appeared at an early voting site in his home state of Delaware where he was seen waiting in a queue that extended outside the polling station.
After casting his ballot, he was asked by reporters about Elon Musk’s daily $1m cash giveaway (now facing a legal challenge), which he described as “totally inappropriate”.
Philadelphia’s district attorney is suing Elon Musk’s pro-Trump fundraising group in an attempt to halt his daily $1m (£766,000) giveaway.
The outgoing president isn’t the only American to partake in early voting ahead of the 5 November poll in recent weeks. More than 43 million people have voted so far, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab tracker-external
Many states in the US, including all seven battleground states, offer early in-person voting and mail-in ballots to voters.
Democrats have surpassed Republicans so far in casting early ballots, the university’s data from 25 states with party registration shows.
