With Election Day, campaigns head to Arizona.
President Donald Trump will hold two demonstrations, in Bullhead City and Goodyear, while Senator Kamala Harris, the democratic vice presidential candidate, will meet with Latino businessmen and inspire citizens to vote in Tucson and Phoenix.
A last-minute push from both sides suggests Arizona is still at stake. The USA TODAY average Monday brought Joe Biden forward with 2. 7 percentage points in Arizona, but Trump made a profit. The crusade ends on Wednesday and probably broke an all-time record for visits to presidential-priced tickets in the state.
Biden’s crusade continues to attack Trump for his reaction to the coronavirus pandemic. On Tuesday, former President Barack Obama criticized Trump’s handling of COVID-19 in a speech in Orlando, saying the president would complain about virus policy if he had treated it. Best.
“He’s complaining, he’s jealous of COVID media coverage,” Obama said. “If I had targeted COVID from the beginning, the instances would not succeed in new records. “
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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden criticized President Donald Trump on Wednesday for not having controlled the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden Trump’s departure Tuesday of a rally in Omaha, Nebraska, where many others were left in a cold below zero, to his abdication opposed to COVID-19.
“This is a symbol that reflects President Trump’s overall technique in the face of this crisis,” Biden told reporters at the Queen Theatre in Wilmington, Delaware. “He takes his image and then comes out. We will all suffer the consequences of their incapacity. “expand a guilty plan. “
Biden’s 12-minute speech came after a briefing with Dr. Vivek Murthy, a former US surgeon general. U. S. Dr. David Kessler, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and chairman of the Board of Directors of the Center for Science in the Public Interest; Dr. Scully. Celine Gounder, assistant clinical professor at New York University; and dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, associate professor of medicine at Yale University
Kessler noticed a 32% increase in cases in the past two weeks, with 500,000 cases last week.
“Almost the whole country is getting worse right now,” Kessler said, “I don’t think I can tell you how far this is going to go. “
Biden promised, if elected, to expand a national infection detection and tracing program and provide a loose vaccine once Biden is expanded, he also proposed that the federal government negotiate drug cost relief with manufacturers, as it does with Medicare, a controversial factor that would require congressional legislation.
“We’ll start from day one by doing the right things,” Biden said. “I will fight for your physical care. “
Biden proposed expanding the Affordable Care Act, which the Trump administration will overturn in the Supreme Court, with a hearing scheduled for Nov. 10, but Biden cited Trump’s “60-minute” interview on Sunday. , when the president said, “I hope they finish that.
– Maureen Groppe and Bart Jansen
Americans cross the final stretch before Election Day with blows to the throat, seeking to soothe the disturbing feeling of the intermission.
Nearly 70 percent of U. S. adults say presidential elections are a major source of stress, according to this month’s Stress in America survey, a dramatic increase since the 2016 election, when 52 percent of Americans said the same thing. are more than Republicans, most political parties say the festival between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden is a major stressor.
– Alia E. Dastagir
Election 2020 :: Terrified and fearful of hope
Theresa Greenfield, the Democratic candidate for the Iowa Senate, will suspend her motorhome crusader after staff members contacted a user who tested positive for COVID-19.
The interruption comes just six days before Election Day, when campaigns do their best to meet and convince voters. Greenfield is in the midst of an intensely competitive race against Republican Senator Joni Ernst. The race is the key to Democrats’ efforts to regain the Senate from Republican control.
“While masking and social estating are necessary at all of our in-person events, our crusade temporarily postpones our virtual reality journey, adding today’s events, on the recommendation of medical professionals to take appropriate precautions to make sure we are fit and protected by Iowa and our team,” campaign spokesman Sam Newton said Wednesday.
Newton Greenfield planned to be tested.
“Theresa has been screened for COVID-19 and has recently been negative, however she was screened again to be safe,” she said in the statement. “She is looking to resume her GOTV excursion once we get the effects of the check and we are surely confident in ourselves that we can do it safely, which hopefully very soon.
– Brianne Pfannenstiel, Des Moines record
Iowa Senate Race: Democrat Theresa Greenfield interrupts motorhome tour after possibly exposed to COVID-19
In the most recent sign that Texas is at stake in the presidential race, Michael Bloomberg will spend about $1 million a day in the last week of the Texas state’s advertising crusade in Spanish and English to help Democratic candidate Joe Biden defeat President Donald Trump.
Howard Wolfson, one of Bloomberg’s most sensible advisers, told the New York Times Tuesday morning that the billionaire businessman and former Democratic presidential candidate, who had already committed $100 million to help Biden in the critical state of Florida, had asked his team for a survey. other states where Trump would possibly be vulnerable and Ohio and Texas mature.
In total, Bloomberg’s super PAC, Independence USA, will spend $15 million on advertising in any of the states on Wednesday, the Times reported. Texas classified ads will attack the president for mismanding the reaction to COVID-19.
Ads will run until Election Day.
– Jonathan Tilove (American statesman from Austin)
It was 34 degrees when President Donald Trump finished his crusade rally in Omaha, Nebraska, at Eppley Airfield on Tuesday night and boarded Air Force One.
Over the next four hours, thousands of Trump rally participants were stranded outdoors on the occasion, waiting for buses late because of what Trump’s management had told an Omaha reporter about a traffic jam.
Aaron Sanderford, reporter for Omaha World-Herald, reported through Trump officials that the buses were suffering from using the access road to the rally site, which is “limited to one direction. “
The report corroborated through CNN correspondent Jeff Zeleny, who said thousands of people remained stranded about an hour and a portion after Trump left Omaha and called the scene a “group. “
Joshua Bote
Omaha: Thousands of trump rally participants in Nebraska were frozen after the event
President Donald Trump has appealed to the electorate at a rally on Michigan’s battlefield state a week before Election Day to help her husbands with the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
“I’m also looking for their husbands, they need to get back to work, right?They need to get back to work. We put their husbands to work, and they all need it,” Trump said. “And the can”. never be worse than the challenge itself. “
Moments earlier, Trump promotioned his among women, saying they would use it in the presidential election because they “need security, they need security, they need law and order. “
“We’re going to do it right. And I love women, and I can’t. They are the greatest. I love them much more than men,” he said.
– Jeanine Santucci
Trump at Michigan Rally: ”We put your husbands to work again”
Less than a week before Election Day, Republican Senator Susan Collins is Democratic rival Sara Gideon by a narrow margin, according to a ballot published Wednesday.
Gideon, the president of Maine House, leads Collins, 47% to 43%, among the most likely electorate, according to Colthrough College’s ballot in Waterville, Maine, and first reported through USA TODAY. Independent applicants Lisa Savage (5%) and Max Linn (2%).
Dan Shea, president of the government branch of Colby College and principal investigator of the ballots, said there was a lot of movement in recent months between Gideon and Collins, as few voters remained undecided.
– Rebecca Morin
Survey: Collins drags challenger Gideon by a small margin; Biden leads Trump across the state
Republicans will rack up accusations of anti-conservative bias opposing social media corporations just under a week before Election Day when they bring the leaders of the nation’s top internet corporations to a Senate committee on how they do. harsh online platforms make a decision on legal content. and what is not.
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and Google’s Sundar Pichai are expected to respond to the growing right wing complaint about moderation of posts through conservatives, President Trump added, before the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday.
Explosive accusations through conservatives are fueling tensions before the hearing that Facebook and Twitter interfered in the 2020 election by strangling a previous New York Post article earlier this month alleging links between the Democratic presidential candidate and his son Hunter’s quotes with Ukraine.
– Jessica Guynn
Senate: Trump-led conservatives accuse Big Tech of meddling in elections and accentuate accusations of bias before Senate confrontation