Please Explain podcast: Parties fight for Florida as President Trump tests negative for COVID-19
Democrats have railed against Republicans for pushing ahead with the nomination of US Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett weeks out from the presidential election, calling the process a "hypocritical sham" on the opening day of her Senate confirmation hearings.
The White House physician announced on Monday that President Donald Trump tested negative for coronavirus on consecutive days but did not specify when the President first returned a negative result.
The news arrived as the President reached Florida to appear at a crowded campaign rally, the first outside the capital since he contracted COVID-19.
In this episode, national editor Tory Maguire is joined by North America correspondent Matthew Knott to discuss President Trump's negative COVID-19 result, Amy Coney Barrett, and how each party is polling in the critical state of Florida.
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Tory is the national editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. She has held senior roles at a number of major Australian mastheads and was most recently editor-in-chief of HuffPost Australia for two-and-a-half years.