U.S. President Donald Trump rallies with supporters at Missoula International Airport in Missoula, Montana, U.S. October 18, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst TPX IMAGES OF THE DAYUS Presidential Elections 2020 LIVE news updates: As part of his three day Western swing, Trump plans to visit Nevada, Arizona and a stop in California on Monday to be briefed about the wildfires ravaging the state. This visit apart from garnering more support for his nomination comes as his campaign goes through a cash crunch, resulting in pullback of television advertisements in crucial states. Trump Saturday headed to Nevada, trying to drum up more support in a state where polls show Democratic rival Joe Biden leading. In the national polls, Trump is trailing Biden in Nevada. He also narrowly lost Nevada to 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Trump “deliberately misled” Americans on coronavirus, Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris has said, referring to the Trump’s comments on the issue pointed out in a forthcoming book authored by a renowned investigative journalist. Authored by American journalist Bob Woodward, the book ‘Rage’ that is scheduled to be launched on September 15 has stirred several controversies around Trump’s presidency, weeks before the November 3 elections.
In the book, Woodward claimed that Trump during several interviews to him said that he downplayed the coronavirus threat. Trump, on his part, accused his Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden of being “weak” on China and alleged that his family was “selling” the country directly to the Chinese military
Trump held a rally in Reno on Saturday evening along with a "Latinos for Trump" event. He will hold another rally in Las Vegas Sunday and a campaign event in Phoenix on Monday.
The president has increased the number of campaign rallies in recent weeks, holding them in airplane hangars or outdoors to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. However the lack of social distancing or other covid-19 restrictions have been absent in most cases.
President Donald Trump Saturday headed to Nevada, trying to drum up more support in a state where polls show Democratic rival Joe Biden leading, and to raise money for a campaign that is facing a possible cash crunch. In the national polls, Trump is trailing Biden in Nevada. He also narrowly lost Nevada to 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
As part of his three day Western swing, Trump plans to visit Nevada, Arizona and a stop in California on Monday to be briefed about the wildfires ravaging the state. This visit apart from garnering more support for his nomination comes as his campaign goes through a cash crunch, resulting in pullback of television advertisements in crucial states. A Republican official said some $18 million would be raised over the weekend through events in Washington and Nevada.
Mauricio Claver-Carone, Trump's senior Latin America adviser on Saturday won election as president of the Inter-American Development Bank, becoming the first US citizen to lead the institution in its 61-year history.The Inter-American Development Bankthe region's main economic development lender making him the first U.S. citizen to lead the institution in its 61-year history. Carone told the bank's governors before voting began that he would be "a passionate advocate" for the bank, its staff and the region.
Trump's decision to nominate a US candidate to head the bank broke with a tradition for the president to come from the region and sparked criticism from some Latin American countries.
Thirty of the Bank's 48 governors voted for Claver-Carone, including 23 from the region, amounting to 66.8% of the vote, a spokesman for the U.S. National Security Council said. (With Reuters)
Vice President Mike Pence has canceled plans to attend a Trump campaign fundraiser in Montana following revelations that the event's hosts had expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory.
President Donald Trump's reelection campaign told The Associated Press on Saturday that Pence's schedule had been changed, but the campaign did not provide a reason or say whether the fundraiser might be held at a later time. The change comes after the AP reported Wednesday that hosts Cayrn and Michael Borland in Bozeman, Montana, had shared QAnon memes and retweeted posts from QAnon accounts. The baseless conspiracy theory alleges Trump is battling an entrenched bureaucracy and sex trafficking ring run by pedophiles.
Three Republicans seeking election in Montana also had been scheduled to attend the fundraiser: U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, who faces a November challenge from Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock; U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte, a Republican running for governor; and state auditor Matt Rosendale, a candidate for the U.S. House. (AP)
Biden audio first shared by 'Russian agent' thrives online
The leaked recordings were hardly a political bombshell: The apparent phone conversations between Joe Biden and Ukraine’s then-president largely confirm Biden’s account of his dealings in Ukraine.
But the choppy audio, disclosed by a Ukrainian lawmaker whom US officials described Thursday as an “active Russian agent” who has sought to spread online misinformation about Biden, was nonetheless seized on by President Donald Trump as well as his supporters to promote conspiracy theories about the Democratic nominee, the Associated Press reported.
Social media posts and videos about the recordings have been viewed millions of times, according to an Associated Press analysis, even though Trump's own administration says they rely on "false and unsubstantiated narratives.”
Pushing for new roads to reelection, President Donald Trump will go on offense this weekend in Nevada, a state that hasn't supported a Republican presidential candidate since 2004.
Trump will plunge head-on into a battle with local authorities in Nevada by holding public events there Saturday and Sunday after his initial plans for rallies in Reno and Las Vegas were blocked by state officials because they would have violated coronavirus health guidelines.
His campaign insisted on forging ahead with the trip –setting up a COVID-19 political fight that Trump's team relishes and underscoring the growing importance of Nevada in Trump's quest for 270 electoral votes as the race looks tight in a number of battleground states, the Associated Press reported.
Trump narrowly lost Nevada in 2016 and the state has trended further toward the Democrats in the last decade.
The most populous county in Texas can move forward with plans to send all registerd voters a mail-in ballot application for the November general election, the Associated Press quoted a state judge as saying on Friday.
The ruling comes a week after Texas Attorney General ken Paxton, a Republican, sued Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins to stop his office from sending mail-in ballot applications to all 2.4 million Houston area voters.
The county announced earlier this month that they planned to send registered voters an application, regardless of whether they qualify to vote by mail.
In Texas, mail-in ballots are generally restricted to voters who are 65 or older, disabled or will be outside the county on Election Day.
The presidential elections in the United States will be held on November 3, 2020. President Donald Trump is up for re-election, and will contest against Democratic nominee Joe Biden. Battle lines have been drawn, with “law and order” versus “poor leadership”, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, emerging as the key rival themes.
The campaigns kicked off in August, with the Democratic National Convention (August 17-20) and Republican National Convention (August 24-27) held online for the first time ever. The Republicans nominated President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence for a second term, while the Democrats named former Vice President Joe Biden for President and Senator Kamala Harris for Vice President. A look at how close the fight is.
Historic fires are raging across the western United States ahead of what scientists say is the typical peak of wildfire season. Hurricane Laura devastated parts of the Gulf Coast last month, while swaths of Iowa are recovering from a derecho that brought hurricane force winds to the Midwest. The streak of disasters has left millions of Americans reeling. But it's barely had an impact on the campaign for the White House, in part because of the vulnerabilities it highlights for President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden. (AP)
Democratic Party members have released a musical video remix of popular "Chale Chalo" song from the superhit Bollywood movie, 'Lagaan', to woo Indian-American voters ahead of the US presidential election. In the November 3 election, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his Indian-American running mate Kamala Harris will challenge incumbent Republican President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. "Chale Chalo, Chale Chalo, Biden ko Vote do, Biden ki Jeet Ho, Unki Haar Haan," says the lyrics of the song sung by Silicon Valley-based Bollywood Singer Titli Banerjee and released by entrepreneur couple Ajay and Vinita Bhutoria. (PTI)