President Donald Trump speaks at a rally to support law enforcement at Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, in Janesville, Wis. (Scott P. Yates/Rockford Register Star via AP)US Presidential Elections 2020 LIVE news updates: President Donald Trump Saturday campaigned in Michigan as part of a swing through states that he won in the 2016 polls. Addressing a rally in Muskegon, Michigan, Trump painted the Democrats as “anti-American radicals” on a crusade against American history. “The Democrat party you once knew doesn’t exist,” he highlighted. The president also leaned into fear tactics and accused the “left” of erasing American history, purging American values and destroying the American way of life.
The tour comes Trump faces headwinds not only in national polling, which shows Democrat Joe Biden leading, but also in key battleground surveys. And it comes after the campaign largely retreated from TV advertising in the Midwest, shifting much of its money to Sun Belt states such as Florida, North Carolina, Arizona and Georgia, as well as Pennsylvania.
Joe Biden on the other hand planned no public events on Saturday.
Before this, Trump was campaigning in Florida and Georgia, neighbouring states he carried four years ago and must win again to extend his presidency. His decision to devote Friday evening’s prime-time slot to Georgia in particular highlighted the serious nature of his challenge in the 2020 contest’s closing days: Far from his original plan to expand into Democratic-leaning states, he is labouring to stave off a defeat of major proportions. No Republican presidential candidate has lost Georgia since George H.W. Bush in 1992.
Meanwhile, at a Trump rally, US Senator David Perdue mocked Kamala Harris by repeatedly mispronouncing her name. A video of his speech shows Perdue making exaggerated attempts to pronounce the name before saying, “I don’t know, whatever,” to which the crowd responds with laughter.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the first 2020 presidential campaign debate with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, held on the campus of the Cleveland Clinic at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., September 29, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Outraged over the mispronunciation of Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris' name by a Republican Senator from Georgia, her supporters launched an online campaign with the hashtags 'MyNameIs' and 'IstandwithKamala'.
During an election rally of US President Donald Trump on Saturday in Macon City in Georgia, a battleground state, Senator David Perdue mispronounced 55-year-old Harris' name.
"KAH'-mah-lah? Kah-MAH'-lah? Kamala-mala-mala? I don't know. Whatever," he told thousands of his supporters. The mispronunciation outraged a large number of Harris' supporters and her spokesperson Sabrina Singh said, "I'll keep it simple: If you can pronounce 'former' Senator David Perdue, you can pronounce 'future' Vice President Kamala Harris."
Condemning Perdue, Amit Jani -- the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Outreach Coordinator of the Biden campaign -- launched the 'My name is' campaign to "push back against the bigotry". (PTI)
The upcoming US elections on November 3 could very well see the expansion of the so called 'Samosa Caucus', a termed coined by Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi for informal grouping of Indian-American lawmakers, according to the latest Congressional polls coming from states.
The "Samosa caucus" comprises of five Indian-American lawmakers, including four members of the House of Representatives and Senator and Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
In the House of Representatives, senior most Dr Ami Bera, Congressmen Ro Khanna and Krishnamoorthi along with Pramila Jayapal, who is the first and the only Indian American women in the House, are projected to be re-elected on November 3. Jayapal, 55, in the new Congress next year is likely to have company from Dr Hiral Tipirneni.
Tripirneni, the emergency room physician is leading, though by a narrow margin, against Republican incumbent David Schweikert in the sixth Congressional District of Arizona.
He has been endorsed by top leaders of the Democratic party, including former vice president Joe Biden, the presidential candidate. (PTI)
That the election has become a referendum on the soul of the nation, suggests that in an increasingly secular country, voting has become a reflection of one’s individual morality — and that the outcome hinges in part on spiritual and philosophical questions that transcend politics: What, exactly, is the soul of the nation? What is the state of it? And what would it mean to save it?
The answers go beyond a campaign slogan, beyond politics and November, to the identity and future of the American experiment itself, especially now, with a pandemic that has wearied the country’s spirit. Read more
The two dozen students who signed up for air pollution expert James Goldstene's advanced environmental studies class all say they
are deeply passionate about fighting climate change.But when it comes to voting in the U.S. presidential
election, many said climate change was not their top issue.Their priorities ahead of the Nov. 3 election reflect those
of the wider electorate: the battered U.S. economy, the COVID-19 pandemic and racial justice. "I know everybody’s biggest issue right now within this class is environment. And it’s super important to me but another thing that I feel is more important personally because I'm an African-American woman is race," said Kelia Surrency, 23."The environment is 100% important to me, but I need someonein that office that doesn't look at the Black community as lesser-than."
Many in the class at California State University, Sacramento, were having trouble finding entry-level jobs or internships in the COVID-wracked economy, said Goldstene, a former top California air pollution regulator."With COVID going on and a lot of people losing their jobs and struggling, worrying about how they are going to pay for stuff. I think that does overshadow climate," said another
student, Enrique Dominguez, 23. Reuters
For Indians studying in America, the November elections hold a crucial key in determining the immigration policies that the country might take in future. At present, Indians constitute the second largest group of international students in the US after China. As per the 2019 US Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange, India sent more than 202,000 students to America at various levels of education in the years 2018-19, which was an increase of about three percent from the previous year.
Reasons for applying to the US among students include the country housing several of the top ranking universities of the world, a sought-after academic environment, as well as better funding opportunities. However, developments over immigration policies and uncertainties with regard to Visa rules are some of the reasons why many Indians students are keenly awaiting the elections in November. (Read Adrija Roychowdhury's report here)
U.S. President Donald Trump, who played down the coronavirus pandemic from its onset, criticized Michigan’s Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer on Saturday for her policies to curb the outbreak, drawing shouts of “lock her up” from a rally crowd.
The upcoming US elections on November 3 could very well see the expansion of the so called “Samosa Caucus”, a termed coined by Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi for informal grouping of Indian-American lawmakers, according to the latest Congressional polls coming from states.
The “Samosa caucus” comprises of five Indian-American lawmakers, including four members of the House of Representatives and Senator and Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris. (Read more here)
Thousands marched to the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Saturday to commemorate the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and protest President Donald Trump’s rush to push through Amy Coney Barrett as her replacement.
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled an Oct. 22 vote on the nomination of Barrett, a conservative appellate judge, over objections from Democrats that the confirmation process comes too close to the Nov. 3 presidential election. (Read more here)
Taking to Twitter, President Donald Trump continued his attacks against his Democratic rival Joe Biden by calling him "a living embodiment of a corrupt political class" and claiming that his family is a criminal enterprise. Trump accused Biden of declining America's economic prosperity and taking away jobs from people. "For the last 47 years, Joe Biden shipped away your jobs, shut down your factories, threw open your borders, and ravaged our cities," he claimed.
President Donald Trump leaned into fear tactics Saturday as he accused the left of trying to 'erase American history, purge American values and destroy the American way of life 'in a late reelection pitch to voters in Michigan. 'The Democrat Party you once knew doesn't exist,'' Trump told voters in Muskegon, Michigan, ahead of a rally in Wisconsin _ two states in the Upper Midwest that were instrumental to his 2016 victory but may now be slipping from his grasp.
As he tried to keep more voters from turning against him, Trump sought to paint Democrats as 'anti-American radicals'' on a 'crusade against American history.' He told moderate voters they had a 'a moral duty'' to join the Republican Party.
Outraged over the mispronunciation of vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris' name by a Republican Senator from Georgia, her supporters launched an online campaign with the hashtags 'MyNameIs' and 'IstandwithKamala'.
Several people gave the origin and meaning of their names as they expressed outrage at the mispronunciation of the vice-presidential candidate's name.
During an election rally of US President Donald Trump on Saturday in Macon City in Georgia, a battle ground state, Republican Senator David Perdue mispronounced 55-year-old Harris' name. "KAH'-mah-lah? Kah-MAH'-lah? Kamala-mala-mala? I don't know. Whatever," he told thousands of his supporters. (PTI)
Backed into a corner and facing financial strains, President Donald Trump went after his opponent's family and defended his own struggle to contain the pandemic on Friday as he fought to energize his sagging reelection bid in the nation's Sunbelt. With Election Day looming, Democrat Joe Biden pushed to keep voters focused on health care in the Midwest.
Trump was campaigning in Florida and Georgia, neighbouring states he carried four years ago and must win again to extend his presidency.
His decision to devote Friday evening's prime-time slot to Georgia in particular highlighted the serious nature of his challenge in the 2020 contest's closing days: Far from his original plan to expand into Democratic-leaning states, he is laboUring to stave off a defeat of major proportions.
No Republican presidential candidate has lost Georgia since George H.W. Bush in 1992. And earlier this week, Trump had to court voters in Iowa, a state he carried by almost 10 points four years ago. (AP)
Backed into a corner and facing financial strains, President Donald Trump went after his opponent's family and defended his own struggle to contain the pandemic on Friday as he fought to energize his sagging reelection bid in the nation's Sunbelt. With Election Day looming, Democrat Joe Biden pushed to keep voters focused on health care in the Midwest.
Trump was campaigning in Florida and Georgia, neighbouring states he carried four years ago and must win again to extend his presidency.
His decision to devote Friday evening's prime-time slot to Georgia in particular highlighted the serious nature of his challenge in the 2020 contest's closing days: Far from his original plan to expand into Democratic-leaning states, he is laboUring to stave off a defeat of major proportions. No Republican presidential candidate has lost Georgia since George H.W. Bush in 1992.(AP)
When President Donald Trump told the world that "bad things happen in Philadelphia," it was, in part, a blunt assessment of his party's struggles in the nation's sixth-most populous city.
For decades, Philadelphia has been the cornerstone of Democratic victories in the battleground state - producing Democratic margins so massive that winning statewide has been a longshot for most Republican presidential candidates.
But it's a longshot Trump pulled off in 2016 and is trying to repeat again.
His debate stage disdain for the City of Brotherly Love - which quickly inspired memes and T-shirts - underscored his campaign's months-long effort to fight the blue tide that starts in the city. (AP)
Backed into a corner and facing financial strains, President Donald Trump went after his opponent's family and defended his own struggle to contain the pandemic on Friday as he fought to energize his sagging reelection bid in the nation's Sunbelt.
With Election Day looming, Democrat Joe Biden pushed to keep voters focused on health care in the Midwest. Trump was campaigning in Florida and Georgia, neighbouring states he carried four years ago and must win again to extend his presidency. His decision to devote Friday evening's prime-time slot to Georgia in particular highlighted the serious nature of his challenge in the 2020 contest's closing days: Far from his original plan to expand into Democratic-leaning states, he is laboUring to stave off a defeat of major proportions.
No Republican presidential candidate has lost Georgia since George H.W. Bush in 1992.
Americans are accustomed to standing in line. They queue up for airport security, the latest iPhone, COVID tests, concerts or food. But the line of voters building before sunrise outside Mallard Creek High School in a distant suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina, on Thursday was different. It was a living chain of hundreds of people who stepped into place _ around the building, down some stairs and past a fleet of idled yellow school buses _ determined to be counted in the elemental civic ritual of voting, which seems even more consequential in the bitterly fought 2020 presidential election. "If you want the United States to remain united, you need to vote,'' said Monique Sutton, 52 and a nurse practitioner. "Because if we get any further away from each other, I don't know that we'll ever be able to come back.''(AP)
Rising coronavirus cases in key presidential battleground states a little more than two weeks before Election Day are the latest worry for election officials and voters fearing chaos or exposure to the virus at polling places despite months of planning. The prospect of poll workers backing out at the last minute because they are infected, quarantined or scared of getting sick has local election officials in Midwest states such as Iowa and Wisconsin opening more early voting locations, recruiting backup workers and encouraging voters to plan for long lines and other inconveniences. Confirmed virus cases and deaths are on the rise in the swing states of Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin. (AP)