Good morning and welcome to Tuesday.
The Daily Recap: Between Sunday and Monday, the number of coronavirus cases in Florida increased to 1,415 (almost 0. 3%), to 717,874; the total number of hospitalizations increased to (0. 1 per cent), to 44,775; 41 (almost 0. 3 percent) to 14,712.
Hello, foreigner: it’s been more than a year since Democratic candidate Joe Biden in Miami, but the question is whether it’s too late for him to make up for lost time and lost ground.
Busy day: Less than a month before Election Day, Biden landed in Miami-Dade County on Monday and organized occasions with Haitians and Hispanics before concluding with a city corridor organized through NBC News, with a largely friendly and sympathetic audience.
Warning signs – For much of the campaign, Miami Democrats sounded alarm about Biden’s relatively lukewarm help between the non-Cuban Hispanic Democratic electorate here and in Florida. The challenge has been compounded by Trump’s disproportionate help among Cuban-Americans. With a top stake in populous Miami-Dade County, Biden would have little chance of winning the state.
In user: “People just want to see Biden in user and see that he’s not the sack man he brought in like in a lot of WhatsApp chats in Miami,” said Carlos Odio, a Miami local and co-founder of Equis Research at POLITICO. Odio’s company interviews and studies the Latino electorate in Florida and other states on the battlefield. Biden promised Miami he wouldn’t be far away for long. “The bad news for you is that I’m coming back, ” he joked at the end of his speech in Little Haiti,
Warning – While a new ballot showed biden could catch up, Guillermo Grenier, a professor and voter at Florida International University, warned that “these last-minute attempts are useless in the end. “
– OR IS RON?- That Governor DeSantis is in Tallahassee.
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MIAMI BLUES – “Biden mounts a fight beyond due for Miami,” through Sabrina Rodriguez and Marc Caputo of POLITICO: After months of disastrous warnings that Donald Trump is making progress in this liberal strongness, Joe Biden is nevertheless listening to Democrats for much of the crusade, Miami Democrats sounded the alarm about Biden’s relatively lukewarm help among the Cuban democrats. and Florida. The challenge has been compounded by Trump’s disproportionate help among Cuban-Americans. and a big turnout in populous miami-Dade County, Biden would have little chance of winning the state. In the more than two months, Biden’s crusade has responded by launching into a recruitment frenzy in South Florida, giving more interviews to local media and, in mix with outdoor groups, investing $23 million in classified television commercials in the Miami media market, according to the knowledge of tracking corpo Qualifies advertising analysis.
– “Joe Biden is ahead of President Trump among the Hispanic electorate in Miami-Dade, according to a poll,” via David Smiley of the Miami Herald
– “Biden: Haitians in South Florida can final election results and Hispanic electorate can ‘put country on a new path’,” through Sun Sentinel’s Anthony Man
– “Joe Biden denounces Donald Trump’s policy in Cuba from a stopover in Miami,” through David Smiley, Bianca Padro Ocasio and Jacqueline Charles of the Miami Herald
– “Trump allies tout The Florida Crusade as a ‘well-oiled’ device when Biden arrives in Miami,” through John Kennedy of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
TIME, IT’S ALL – “Florida’s voter registration formula fails on the last day of the presentation,” through POLITICO’s Gary Fineout: Florida’s online voter portal collapsed on the last day of registration, which led Democrats to accuse Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republican state officials of seeking to suppress the vote less than a month before Election Day. Details: Secretary of State Laurel Lee said the site closed briefly on Monday. beaten through other people looking to access it.
Testing to come? – Problems with the online portal have led Democrats and other teams to request an extension of the time limit for voter registration in Florida. Debbie Wasserman Schultz criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis and demanded that the registration period be increased to “compensate all the electorate to which he is not entitled” on the last day. Then, on Monday night, a lawyer with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Law sent an email to the State Department saying they “could be forced to resort to other legal remedies” if the deadline did not last another day.
BACKTRACK – “Florida AARP resists The Announcement of Bloomberg’s Attack on Trump,” through POLITICO’s Matt Dixon: AARP, the country’s biggest high-level breakthrough, distanced himself from Florida’s attack announcement targeting Donald Trump and funded through New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg. AARP Florida, a nonprofit advocacy group, posted a Monday saying it did not participate in the announcement, which criticizes Trump’s drive to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cites the group’s investigation. “AARP did not authorize or participate in the production of publicity targeting President Donald Trump,” Florida State Director Jeff Johnson said in an aArray “AARP has a proud 34-year history of involving nonpartisan voters and does not endorse or oppose candidates, nor does AARP make contributions to political campaigns or candidates. “
SUBURBAN DEPOT – “Will Voters Make Seminole Blue in a Presidential Year” through Annie Martin and Ryan Gillespie of the Orlando Sentinel: “Women in the suburbs of Seminole County may have white house keys and a list of races in the state. 26,000 female electorates outs outperated women and more than part of the electorate on the net north of Orlando, helping to turn Seminole, a once reliable Republican strongmanship, into one of the nation’s largest changing counties in this year’s presidential election. also visual in the poll itself, as Democrats presented candidates for each of the county’s four seats in the Florida legislature, one in the Senate race and three careers in the House, each facing a Democratic woman opposed to a Republican in confrontations. that can tilt the balance of forces in Tallahassee ».
“Where does a candidate live? State electoral law is indistinct about what defines residence,” through Martin E. Orlando Sentinel Comas: “Daisy Morales, a Democratic candidate for Florida House, is seeking an asset waiver for a space she owns the orange-county district that runs for Jason Brodeur, a Republican candidate for the Florida Senate, owns a space with her wife in Tallahassee, where they seek an asset waiver more than 250 miles from the Seminole County District she is looking for. “
A NEW SONDAGE IN FLORIDA AN OFFER – The University of North Florida released a new ballot in Florida tuesday that revealed that Democratic candidate Joe Biden had a slight advantage over President Donald Trump from 51% to 45%. THE UNF Public Opinion Research Laboratory. probably surveyed the electorate last week after the presidential debate. The online survey conducted through 3,142 registered voters who were emailed and asked to respond. It has a margin of error of about 1. 8 consistent with percent.
And GOP Underwater – The same UNF vote found that Trump, as well as Gov. Ron DeSantis and the senses, Marco Rubio and Rick Scott had task approval rates below 50%. Trump had a task approval rate of 46%, while Scott was at 45% and Rubio was at 46%. DeSantis had an approval score of 47 consistent with percent. The ballot also showed that several constitutional amendments may be rejected. Sixty according to the electorate’s penny, they will have to vote yes to an amendment for it to be approved. A proposal to increase Florida’s minimum wage to $15 an hour gained 60% (therefore within a margin of error of 1. 8%), while only 41% of respondents make an effort to make it more difficult to pass constitutional amendments. A measure to review Florida’s number one election has only 58% Array
CAMPAGNE ROUNDUP – In the race for florida’s 15th Congressional District, Democrat Alan Cohn’s new place warns that Republican Scott Franklin “supports tax cuts for businesses and other millionaires” and promotes Cohn’s research journalist career. . . Republican Rep. Brian Mast introduces a survivor of a sexual assault in the Air Force, praising his paintings to bring his rapist to justice in this announcement in the race for Florida’s 18th Congressional District. . . Mast’s announcement comes out just as Democratic challenger Pam Keith hits Mast with an ad chasing him for his recently discovered comments about rape and underage women on Facebook. The ad includes a photo of Jeffrey Epstein that becomes a photo of Mast.
2020 IN CHIFFERS – So far, 571872 votes have been cast by mail in the November election, according to the latest data on the State Election Division website, of which 306,107 are Democratic and 157,978 Republicans registered. ballots are requested but are still returned. Of these, 2. 14 million are made through Democrats and nearly 1. 52 million through Republicans.
– “The vote for justice in Florida attracts little attention,” through Florida’s Jim Saunders News Service
– “Buchanan, Good promotes other surveys in the race for the Florida Congress seat,” through Christopher O’Donnell
WELCOME – “Thousands of academics and teachers return to Miami study rooms while COVID persists,” through Colleen Wright of the Miami Herald, Monique O. Madan, David Goodhue and Joey Arrows: “More than 22,000 academics from the fourth largest school in the country The district returned to the classroom on Monday morning for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic changed life in the spring , forcing Miami-Dade County teachers and public school academics to teach and be informed online at home. undergraduate students, as well as students with disabilities in a modified program, were part of the first wave of the district’s staggered reopening plan. Another 40,000 students, adding up all elementary and tenth graders, are expected to return on Wednesday. “
SAVE – “Florida’s most sensitive Republicans defend themselves against Trump’s reckless ‘narrative’ about COVID,” through Antonio Fins of the Palm Beach Post: “A few hours before his return to the white house of the hospital, two wonderful Florida Republicans sought Florida Goth Party President Joe Gruters rejected advice that the president’s occasions did not adhere to the guidelines He said he attended the Latinos for Trump event on September 25 at the Trump National in Doral and that participants wore masks and chairs were separated by six feet.
– “Jeanette Nunez” would have felt ‘in a van with Donald Trump sick’, through A. G. Gancarski of Florida Politics
– “Bobthrough Bowden compares his COVID-19 case to Trump: “I don’t get the remedy you’re getting,” via Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel
– “The COVID-19 positivity rate in Florida is less than 5% per consecutive day,” through Sun Sentinel’s David Fleshler
NEW INITIATIVE: “Step Up provides $1 million for LGBTQ training in private schools,” through POLITICO’s Andrew Atterbury: Florida’s leading scholarship fundraising organization partners with Equality Florida to provide LGBTQ awareness in more than 2,800 personal schools across the state. The move, which enrolls Step Up for Students with the state’s leading LGBTQ rights group, comes after a legislative consultation in which vouchers attracted scrutiny from Democrats who infuriating anti-anti policies. -gay and anti-transgender from some personal schools that get scholarships.
“IRONY ABOUNDS” – “Painters from the state of Tallahassee seized concern and confusion when telepainting functions end,” through USA Today Netpaintings-Florida Capial Bureau’s James Call: “Workers at 3 state agencies in Tallahassee expressed confusion and apprehension after their supervisors declared the paintings remote. Employees from the Department of Economic Opportunities, the state’s employment agency, were invited to show up at their workplace at the Caldwell building in downtown on Monday, October 19. A request for comment with a Spokesperson for the DO is pending. “I’m afraid to go back to this building, ” said a painter who called for anonymity. “They bring us back to flu season. They bring us back when Trump is COVID; irony abounds, I suppose. “
NOT ENCORE – “As Hurricane Delta prepares in the Gulf, Pensacola prepares for consecutive hurricanes,” through Kevin Robinson of the Pensacola News Journal: “Just 3 weeks after Hurricane Sally flooded many homes in the area, a typhoon hit the Gulf Coast. Delta is expected to hit the coast somewhere between Louisiana and Panama City in the early hours of Friday as a Category 2 hurricane. Although it is too early to wait exactly where Delta will land, its trajectory so far is very similar to Sally’s. Robinson said at a news convention Monday morning that city and county officials expect our region to suffer the effects of the next typhoon and that there may be an emergency declaration on Tuesday.
NOPE – “The U. S. Supreme Court has not been able to do so. But it’s not the first time Reject the case of Irma Care Home,” through the Jim Saunders News Service of Florida: “The U. S. Supreme Court is not the only one in the world to do so. But it’s not the first time He refused Monday to appeal a Broward County nursing home whose leave had been revoked after citizens died as a result of Hurricane Irma. As is common, judges did not understand why they refused to hear the hollywood Hills Rehabilitation Center appeal, which alleged that their procedural rights had been violated. The nursing home filed an appeal with the Supreme Court in June after the State Fourth District Appeals Court rejected arguments that the Florida Agency for the Health Care Administration improperly revoked the license.
ADD IT – “Duke puts typhoon prices at $ 146 million,” via Florida’s Jim Saunders news service: “Duke Energy Florida is asking state regulators to approve $ 145 million in prices stemming from hurricane settlements Dorian from last year and force recovery after a request, filed last week, came after the Florida Public Utilities Commission in February legalized Duke to begin raising $ 171. 3 million on an interim basis due to estimated prices. related to Dorian and Tropical Storm Nestor.
Deepening – “The Federal Government: An Elected Prosecutor Stole Nearly a Million Dollars Corrupted Defendants, Lawyers,” through Andrew Pantazi of the Florida Times-Union: “The federal investigation into former Lake City State Prosecutor Jeff Siegmeister, who began with accusations that corrupted the defendants, resorted to new accusations that Siegmeister defrauded and stole $985,000 from an old man. A federal forfeiture lawsuit last week detailed a component of the federal investigation as prosecutors seek to get Siegmeister home. The corruption investigation in, yes, implies that the FBI has been investigating Siegmeister since the summer of 2018 for an alleged bribery plan in which he requested cash or valuables from defendants and his lawyers in exchange for ‘investigating alleged corruption’ Array FBI agents came through what they describe as a plan to defraud an elderly man.
INDEMNIZATION – “The opinion on damages orders of approximately $1. 5 billion for the circle of relatives of florida FBI agent kidnapped Levinson,” via Lucy Morgan of Florida Phoenix: “U. S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly ordered the Islamic Republic of Iran to pay $1. 457 billion in damage to the family circle of former Florida FBI agent Robert Levinson, who was kidnapped by Iranian officials in 2007 and died in captivity. He was the oldest civilian hostage in U. S. history when his circle of relatives announced his death before him The sentencing order, signed due last week, ordered the Iranian government to pay Levinson, his wife Christine and their seven children a total of $1. 457 billion in compensatory and punitive damages as punishment for “shameful behavior” and to deter long-term conduct. “
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– “The director who commented on the Holocaust can be retried this week,” through Sun Sentinel’s Austen Erblat: “A former Boca Raton director could be retried this week after a trial ruled that he had not been fired for his comments. William Latson was fired from his position at Spanish River High School in October 2019, and the Palm Beach County School Board will vote Wednesday on his reinstatement and whether he is eligible for late payments. “
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