President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Duluth International Airport in Duluth, Minn. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)US Presidential Elections 2020 LIVE news updates: Bernie Sanders is returning to in-person campaigning for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in March, heading to the battleground states of New Hampshire and Michigan to promote Joe Biden and sooth any lingering tensions between the Democratic Party’s progressive and centrist wings.
Spokesman Mike Casca says the Vermont senator will hold a socially distanced, outdoor rally Saturday in Lebanon, New Hampshire which will be capped to keep crowds from growing too large. On Monday, Sanders will host a drive-in rally in Macomb County, Michigan – a Detroit suburb that voted Republican in 2016 and was instrumental in clinching the White House for President Donald Trump.
Sanders ended his presidential primary campaign in April and endorsed Biden just days later, as both candidates worked to promote party unity that largely eluded Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump on Thursday condemned all kinds of white supremacists something which he was hesitant to do during the first presidential debate with his Democratic rival Joe Biden early this week. “I’ve said it many times, and let me be clear again: I condemn the [Ku Klux Klan]. I condemn all white supremacists. I condemn the Proud Boys. I don’t know much about the Proud Boys, almost nothing. But I condemn that,” Trump told Fox News Thursday night.
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump Friday tested positive for the coronavirus after Trump informed that he and the first lady will be going under quarantine after his top advisor, Hope Hicks tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday. Hicks travels regularly with the president on Air Force One and, along with other senior aides, accompanied him to Ohio for the presidential debate on Tuesday and to Minnesota for a campaign event on Wednesday.
From suggesting that disinfectants and UV light could cure the virus to claiming that it would go away without vaccines, President Trump has faced a flurry of backlash and ridicule for his comments about the pandemic since its onset in the United States.
Read Trump’s top claims about the coronavirus over the months here
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has again shattered fundraising records, topping his August cash haul during the month of September, according to analysis done by AP.
AP sources informed that Biden surpassed $365 million raised last month through his joint fundraising effort with the Democratic National Committee.
Biden's success raising money speaks to the enthusiasm of Democratic donors to oust President Donald Trump from office. The money will help him continue to dominate the advertising wars and will position the campaign well for the possibility of a protracted legal fight after the Nov. 3 election.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday condemned all kinds of white supremacists something which he was hesitant to do during the first presidential debate with his Democratic rival Joe Biden early this week. "I've said it many times, and let me be clear again: I condemn the [Ku Klux Klan]. I condemn all white supremacists. I condemn the Proud Boys. I don't know much about the Proud Boys, almost nothing. But I condemn that," Trump told Fox News Thursday night.
Trump said he could say it a hundred times but it would not be enough for the "fake media.
The president has been facing a lot of criticism for not directly condemning white supremacists during the debate.Trump and Biden clashed over the issue of race in America in the first presidential debate wherein the Republican leader hesitated to condemn white supremacists. (PTI)
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved a $2.2 trillion Democratic plan to provide more economic relief from the coronavirus pandemic, as a bipartisan deal continued to elude House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the White House.
Objections from top Republicans are likely to doom the House Democrats’ plan in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has called the $2.2 trillion price tag “outlandish,” although Democrats have reduced the cost of their proposal by over a trillion dollars since May. The House vote was 214-207. (Read More here)
US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump Friday tested positive for the coronavirus after Trump informed that he and the first lady will be going under quarantine after his top advisor, Hope Hicks tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday. (with NYT)
President Donald Trump cancelled a planned appearance in western Wisconsin amid calls from the city's mayor and the state's governor, both Democrats, that he not hold a rally due to a surge in coronavirus cases.Wisconsin ranks third among states for per-capita increases in cases over the past two weeks.Trump replaced the La Crosse rally with one in Janesville about 175 miles away where the virus is not spreading quite as rapidly. (AP)
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he and first lady Melania would go into quarantine as they await test results after Trump's top advisor, Hope Hicks tested positive for coronavirus. Hicks travels regularly with the president on Air Force One and, along with other senior aides, accompanied him to Ohio for the presidential debate on Tuesday and to Minnesota for a campaign event on Wednesday.
Chris Wallace, the “Fox News Sunday” anchor and moderator of Tuesday’s melee of a debate between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden was on the phone Wednesday from his home in Annapolis, Maryland, reflecting on — his words — “a terrible missed opportunity.”
“I never dreamt that it would go off the tracks the way it did,” he said.
In his first interview since the chaotic and often incoherent spectacle — in which a pugilistic Trump relentlessly interrupted opponent and moderator alike — Wallace conceded that he had been slow to recognize that the president was not going to cease flouting the debate’s rules. READ MORE
With just over a month to go before Americans head en masse to the polls in an extraordinarily contentious election, Facebook is expanding restrictions on political advertising, including new bans on messages claiming widespread voter fraud. New prohibitions laid out in a blog post come days after President Donald Trump raised the prospect of mass fraud in the vote-by-mail process during a debate with Democratic rival Joe Biden.
"Banned ads would include calling a method of voting inherently fraudulent or corrupt, or using isolated incidents of voter fraud to delegitimize the result of an election," Rob Leathern, Facebook's director of product management, tweeted. The changes apply to Facebook and Instagram and are effective immediately, he said.
The ban includes ads that call an election into question because the result isn't determined on the final day of voting. There is a good chance U.S. election results will require additional time this year because of expanded mail-in ballots due to the pandemic. Also banned are advertisements portraying voting or census participation as meaningless and advising people not to take part.