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President Donald Trump remained out of sight on Tuesday when attendees switched parts of the White House to workspaces for use while recovering from COVID-19 and discussed the next steps in his re-election campaign.
Trump is about to return to the crusade path and tells his aides that he needs a series of mega rallies in pro-Republican spaces in battlefield states to mark his recovery, the Associated Press reported. remains contagious, he would be allowed to set foot in Air Force One.
“If I had had your druthers, I don’t know if you’d ever left the track,” Crusade spokesman Hogan Gidley told the AP. “He’s back, and when he’s well enough, he’ll resume the electoral crusade. “
Meanwhile, a department has emerged among Trump’s political advisers on how to deal with the consequences. Some of those Trump can use this moment as a late reboot to take advantage of his delight with COVID-19 and yet show empathy for those affected by a pandemic that has killed more than 210,000 Americans, left millions unemployed and dropped their election numbers.
Others who, of course, a sudden replacement after seven months of projecting force on the virus would not work and instead advocated intensifying the message to further incite the president’s supporters to run, AP reported.
Katie Miller, one of Vice President Mike Pence’s most sensible assistants, left Salt Lake City, where the vice-presidential debate between Pence and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris is scheduled for October 7, according to reports.
Miller had two negative tests in the last two days and had already had COVID-19 this year, leaving Salt Lake “as a precaution,” according to a tweet from an NPR reporter.
Miller had mocked a request from Camp Harris to install Plexiglas between Harris and Pence during the debate. “If Senator Harris needs to use a castle around her, go ahead, ” said Miller.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has criticized President Donald Trump for ending talks with Congressional Democrats about an attendance package for a compromise against the coronavirus.
“Donald Trump has ended efforts to provide the bipartisan assistance our country desperately needs. It ended conversations that would get assistance for our businesses and schools, for suffering families and for the unemployed, who would have preserved thousands of jobs,” Biden said. in a launched through his campaign.
“Make no mistake: if you’re out of work, if your business is closed, if your child’s school is closed, if you see layoffs in your community, Donald Trump today that none of this, none of that, is a subject for him, ” said Biden.
Trump’s senior adviser, Stephen Miller, who quarantined at home after the COVID-19 outbreak in the White House, now tested positive.
“For the last five days, I’ve been running remotely and self-insulating, my tests were negative every day until yesterday. Today I tested positive for COVID-19 and I’m quarantined,” Miller said in a statement.
Miller is the last White House assistant to test positive for COVID-19 after President Trump contracted the virus and was hospitalized for three and a half days over the weekend.
The U. S. Senate race in North Carolina has been shaken by new accusations about an extramarital relationship with Democratic candidate Cal Cunningham.
Text messages received through Associate Press and other interviews show that Cunningham’s relationship with Arlene Guzman Todd, a Californian woman, goes beyond sexually suggestive text messages to an intimate encounter in July, Charlotte Observer reported.
Before the “sexteo” scandal erupt over the weekend, Cunningham had led outgoing Republican President Thom Tillis to the polls, giving Democrats hopes to regain a majority of the United States Senate. -19 after a stopover at the White House on September 26.
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– DJ Koessler (@DJKoessler) October 6, 2020
Facebook said it would ban teams that brazenly QAnon, the baseless conspiracy theory that portrays President Donald Trump as a secret warrior opposed to a child trafficking network run through celebrities and “deep state” government officials.
Social media giant said Tuesday that it would remove Facebook pages, teams, and Instagram accounts to “represent QAnon,” even if they don’t publicitate violence, the Associated Press reported.
The QAnon phenomenon has a mosaic of Facebook groups, Twitter accounts and YouTube videos in recent years. QAnon has been linked to real-world violence, such as criminal reports of kidnapping and damaging accusations that coronavirus is a hoax.
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 6, 2020
According to RealClearPolitics. com, a survey average in Pennsylvania last month that Biden has a 6. 5 percentage point lead over Trump, who won Pennsylvania in 2016 by a narrow 0. 62 percentage point margin.
On Tuesday, a grand jury accused St. John’s partner. Louis who deployed weapons as a bunch of protesters against racial injustice marched through their streets.
Al Watkins, a couple’s lawyer, showed The Associated Press the accusations against Mark, 63, and his wife, Patricia McCloskey, 61.
The McCloskeys, who are lawyers, have popular heroes among some conservatives and have appeared at the Republican National Convention.
They claim that they exercised their right of amendment for the time being to carry weapons and that they did so through the Missouri Castle Doctrine Act, which authorizes the use of lethal force against intruders.
In a hot speech in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Biden warned that “something more important is happening in this country than our damaged policy. Something darker. Something more dangerous.
The speech, which ridiculed the “division” and presented the election as a war for the country’s “soul,” referred to the president’s reaction to continued protests for racial justice across the country, days after the first presidential debate. when Trump hesitated when he was asked to convict far-right and white supremacist groups.
“I’m not talking about differences of opinion,” Biden said. “No, I’m talking about something different, something deeper. “
“[It’s] true that many Americans don’t seek to succeed over our divisions, but to deepen them,” he said.
“We and will not allow extremists and white supremacists to derail the United States of Lincoln, Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass,” he said.
House of Commons President Nancy Pelosi criticized Donald Trump and the “complete mess” of the White House Tuesday after Trump stopped talks about the coronavirus stimulus, saying the president “put himself first” at the country’s expense.
“Today, once again, President Trump showed his true colors: to come first at the expense of the country, with the complete complicity of Republican congressmen,” the House President said after Trump postponed negotiations on a new plan. until after the presidential election on November 3.
“Clearly, the White House is in chaos,” he said, adding that Trump rejected warnings from the Federal Reserve that inadequacy would lead to a weak recovery with unnecessary hardship for millions of American families and businesses.
Biden tested negative for coronavirus again in his campaign.
Biden has been examined since Trump announced that he tested positive. The two applicants shared a milestone, but remained distant, during the first presidential debate last Tuesday.
The U. S. Food and Drug AdministrationHe told coronavirus vaccine developers Tuesday that it takes at least two months of protection knowledge for part of their trial volunteers to authorize emergency use, a requirement that would likely delay the availability of US vaccines. But it’s not the first time Beyond November 3rd, election. .
The FDA has released the consultant who sets stricter recommendations for drug brands in the hope of obtaining an emergency use authorization (USA) for their experimental vaccines.
The New York Times reported Monday that the rules had been blocked through the White House, however, the FDA issued a document containing a summary of the recommendation it had given to vaccine brands suggesting the additional protective measure the previous Tuesday and then the new rules.
The White House can still force approval of a vaccine without that additional safety data; however, this would put him at odds with the FDA and its career scientists, and increase the belief that politics played a role in spreading a vaccine.
Biden has expanded his lead over Trump on the Battlefield in Michigan and the two applicants are tied in North Carolina, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion ballot released Tuesday.
Biden had 51% of the most likely voters, compared to 43% of Biden in Michigan. Both candidates had 47% in North Carolina.
Vice-Perspective Pence is calling for Plexiglas separators not to be placed in his aspect of Wednesday night’s vice-presidential debate, the Washington Post reported.
The Vice-President’s announcement comes after the Presidential Debate Committee said dividers had been agreed as a protective measure to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Both biden’s commission and crusade told the newspaper that they understood that Pence’s team agreed with the perception of Plexiglass barriers, but Pence’s team said no, the Plexiglass was medically obligatory given the other precautions in position at the event.
“If you need it, it’s more than welcome to surround yourself with plexiglass if that makes you feel more comfortable,” Short said. “It’s necessary. “
Trump canceled negotiations with Democratic lawmakers on the coronavirus relief law until after the election, even when there are cases of viruses in much of the country before flu season.
“I asked my representatives to stop negotiating until the end of the election, when, without delay after my victory, we will approve a primary stimulus bill addressed to American staff and small businesses,” Trump wrote on Twitter a day after his leave. hospital for the treatment of Covid. 19
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– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 6, 2020
Former first lady Michelle Obama has called Trump a “racist” president whose strategy of fear, department, and promotion of nasty conspiracy theories can simply “destroy” America if re-elected.
Obama made the statements, which attack the president to date, in a 24-minute video that provides final arguments in biden’s favor four weeks before November 3.
Obama described Trump and his Republican allies as “unfairly fueling the fears” of African-Americans, saying the president “is morally wrong” for taking measures that intimidate the electorate and for “lying” about how minorities will ruin American suburbs, he said.
“What the president is once doing is obviously wrong, it’s morally wrong, and yes, it’s racist,” said the 56-year-old wife of Barack Obama, the country’s first black president.
Obama said that as a black woman, having “done everything in my power for a life of dignity, service, and honesty, knowing that any of my countrymen is more afraid of me than the chaos we’re going through right now, well, it hurts. “”, he said. ” It’s a heaviness that weighs on our hearts. “
– Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) October 6, 2020
Biden anticipated a speech he is expected to give Tuesday in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, saying it would be “america’s soul and racial equality and the problems we find ourselves in right now. “
“I’m making a speech I’ve been working on and working on on how America’s soul and racial equality and the problems we’re in now,” Biden told reporters.
“Some other people would probably think it’s a little dramatic, but I think it’s appropriate. We’re going to have to unite this country and I made the decision to do it from Gettysburg. I worked very, very, very much this speech. I’ll see him and I’ll know. I mean each and every word, ” he says.
Major U. S. army leaders are being quarantined after Coast Guard number 2 underwent coronavirus testing, Pentagon officials said Tuesday.
The Coast Guard revealed the previous Tuesday that Admiral Charles Ray, the Deputy Commander of the Coast Guard, tested the virus on Monday. Ray had attended an assembly last week with the heads of service, adding Army General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
“As a precautionary measure, all close contacts at those meetings are quarantined and tested this morning,” the Pentagon said in a statement.
“No touch of the Pentagon has shown any symptoms and we have no more evidence to report right now. “
Twitter Inc responded through a precautionary tag on Trump’s tweet that compares coronavirus to flu.
Twitter said the message contained misleading information.
Earlier in the day, Facebook Inc deleted a message from Trump, according to CNN.
The tweet came hours after Trump fired Walter Reed National Military Medical Center when the president sought to minimize the threat of the virus.
Trump is “extremely well” and does not report symptoms of COVID-19, a day after returning to the White House after being hospitalized for the highly contagious disease, he said Tuesday in a statement.
Sean Conley, a military commander, said several doctors met with the president on Tuesday morning.
“He spent a quiet first night at home and today he doesn’t report symptoms. Vital symptoms and physical examination remain stable, with an outpatient oxygen saturation point of 95-97%,” he said in a statement through the White House. continues to do very well.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis extended the state’s voter registration deadline Tuesday after unforeseen and unexplained heavy traffic crushed the state’s online formula and possibly prevented thousands of others from registering to vote in the polls. presidential election next month.
DeSantis will extend the deadline, which expired Monday until 7:00 p. m. ET on Tuesday.
Florida Secretary of State Laurel Lee, who oversees the voting system, said on a Tuesday that the state will “work with our state and federal law enforcement partners to ensure that this is not a planned act that opposes the voting process. “
The U. S. Postal Service has not been able to do so. But it’s not the first time He requested a federal ruling explaining a ruling on electoral mail, warning that the resolution may hinder the agency’s ability to temporarily deliver mail before the presidential election.
Four U. S. judges issued initial precautionary measures prohibiting the postal service from cutting before the November presidential election.
The Postal Service asked Judge Emmet Sullivan to explain his September 27 decision and warned that he would “compromise the postal service’s ability to deliver mail at the right time before the next election. “
White House officials are blocking the new strict federal rules for the emergence of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the New York Times.
Officials oppose any provision of rules that virtually ensure that no vaccine will be allowed before the November 3 election, other people familiar with the approval procedure told the newspaper.
Trump has continually accused the “deep state” of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of verifying to delay approval of the vaccine until the end of the election. the vaccine may be in a position through elections, leading to fears that the administration will check to force a vaccine before it meets protection standards.
The FDA has other tactics to ensure that vaccines comply with the rules, according to the newspaper, adding by sharing the rules with an external advisory committee of experts that is expected to meet publicly before a vaccine is approved.
The White House will take more precautions with staff surrounding President Donald Trump after positive for COVID-19 last week, White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah told Fox News.
“We take precautions on the occasions we organize ourselves, and in fact I think that, despite the positive check from the President and the First Lady, we will take even more for now to protect the indispensable body of workers around him,” he added. Farah said.
When asked through reporters if Trump would speak Tuesday, Farah said they would hear it in some way, though he refused to respond when asked if he was planning a televised speech.
While proceeding to his coronavirus remedy on his first full day back to the White House, U. S. President Donald Trump said in a tweet that he felt good and was awaiting the next presidential debate scheduled for October 15.
His opponent, Joe Biden, said he will attend the debate if medical experts say it’s safe.
It is not transparent when and where the president contracts the virus and how long it can remain contagious.
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 6, 2020
Democrat Joe Biden is expanding his advertising purchases in Ohio as early voting begins Tuesday, indicating the campaign’s developing hopes that a state Trump won smoothly four years ago may be within reach.
The new ads will be broadcast on radio in rural areas, historically republican in the state, the Crusade told The Associated Press, as well as on television in Dayton.
Toni Webb, director of Biden State in Ohio, said the presidential candidate will use classified ads to talk “directly to families striving throughout Buckeye state about their positive vision of unifying the country,” adding his plans to “strengthen physical care, rebuild our economy better. “and supply to the families they run. “
Trump beat Ohio over Democrat Hillary Clinton through 8 percent of issues in 2016. He is now discovered locked up in a competitive war for the Midwest war camp and his 18 electoral votes, with polls showing applicants tied with 97% of the electorate claiming their minds were calm.
Defying criticism, Trump tweeted that U. S. citizens are learning to live with COVID-19, a day after returning to the White House to receive a broad remedy after being hospitalized for the coronavirus.
Trump, who returned late Monday after nearly 4 days at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington, was expected to get a fifth transfusion of dependence on the antiviral drug while being treated with the steroid dexamethasone, which uses only maximum serious cases.
Trump has downplayed the disease, which has killed more than a million people worldwide. The United States has the highest death toll in the world due to the pandemic, with more than 209,000 deaths. Trump also did not address the fact that his access to world-class fitness care and treatment is far more privileged than that of top citizens.
“Many other people every year, more than 100,000 people, and despite the vaccine, die from the flu. Are we going to close our country? No, we have been informed to live, as they inform us. Live with Covid, at the maximum of the much less fatal populations !!! Trump tweeted on Tuesday.
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 6, 2020
Two polls in two days show biden is expanding his national advantage over Trump.
A CNN national vote conducted through the SSRS led Biden through 16 nationwide issues over Trump, gaining 57% of voter support, probably with 41% of Trump’s support.
Meanwhile, an NBC/Wall Street Journal vote gave Biden a 14-point national victory Both votes were held after last week’s debate, but before Trump diagnosed COVID-19.
Poll averages also show biden is ahead of Trump in six states on the battlefield: Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Arizona. In Pennslyvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, Biden leads by more than points, according to RealClearPolitics.
Former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden, right, communicate to visitors aboard an Amtrak exercise an excursion through Ohio and Pennsylvania [Andrew Harnik / The Associated Press]
Read all Monday updates (October 5) here.
Trump’s announcement came hours after the Fed leader warned that America’s economic recovery is in danger without further budget support.
The first also accused the U. S. president of “deliberate mismanagement” of the COVID-19 crisis in the country.
The Pentagon says this will not be “the preparation or project capacity of the U. S. military. “
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