Electoral College Timeline Of EventsNovember 3, 2020 — Election Day(first Tuesday after the first Monday in November)During the general election, your vote helps determine your state’s electors. This is so their electoral votes will be presumed valid when presented to Congress. December 14, 2020 — electors vote in their statesThe electors meet in their respective states and vote for president and vice president on separate ballots. January 6, 2021 — Congress counts the electoral votesCongress meets in joint session to count the electoral votes. The vice president, as President of the Senate, presides over the count and announces the results of the Electoral College vote.

In Texas, the ads will focus on “[President Donald] Trump’s mismanagement of COVID-19 crisis,” according to a Bloomberg spokesperson. In the last month, however, Biden has sent a flurry of surrogates to the state to campaign on his behalf. Until now, Bloomberg had focused his general-election activities in Florida — where he pledged to spend $100 million supporting Biden. The Bloomberg spokesperson told the Tribune on Tuesday that Bloomberg also plans to increase the size of his television ad buys in Florida over the next week. Another nonpartisan Texas poll released Monday, from the Hobby School for Public Affairs at the University of Houston, gave Trump a 5-point lead.