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Total number of coronavirus deaths in the United States reported this week’s morning: Monday, 219674; Tuesday, 220,133; Wednesday 221 076; Thursday, 222210.
The electoral contest between TrumpDonald President John TrumpWhitmer responds to Atlas: I’m not going to be intimidated by not following obama-renowned scientists: American adversaries ” saw us weakened” Obama describes his wife Michelle’s resistance to ambitions PRESIDENTIAL Elections MORE and former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenObama: ”American adversaries have noticed that we are weakened” America sees 1 million new cases of coronavirus in a week The Republican Party shows limited appetite to pursue To Biden MORE probes somehow seemed almost earthquake-proof, with a headline left behind by his rival, survey after survey, month after month, went through contagion, recession and a message in times of crisis.
Tonight, on a level in Nashville, Tennessee, the president has one last chance at the tide (The Hill).
For spectators, a moment of debate may be overshadowed by memories of a chaotic fight between the two men on September 29, and by the fact that so many voters have already made a decision. However, Trump won the presidency with only 77,000 votes in 3 key states four years ago, and political analysts at the polls and concentrated groups, knowledge of voter registration and early voting statistics say a temporary mandate is possible for Trump, albeit in the long run.
As Niall Stanage of The Hill reports, the president’s team hopes he will obviously describe tonight the selection between a Republican program of “freedom and prosperity” and “socialist” policies that he says are favored through Biden and his co-worker, Senator Kamala Harris. Harris fellow black voters: Thank you Biden presents a new challenge for Boris Johnson Moore: Trump is ‘a little grumpy’ about the effects of the MORE election (D-Calif. ). But Trump’s unpredictability can be self-destructive, which he will do until he does,” Stanage’s source admitted.
Associated Press: Face to face: Trump and Biden meet for a final debate.
The New York Times: How Trump and Biden are in favor of the final presidential debate.
Is Trump turning his tactics? This is just one of the unknowns on a list compiled through Max Greenwood of The Hill. Trump’s debate advisers have warned that seeking to push Biden off a precipice of the debate is not as effective on live television as patiently encouraging a communicative challenger to communicate with himself. Biden’s debate team hopes Trump will not be public and has prepared the Democratic candidate shortly as a result.
Could tonight’s occasion seal the agreement on that of the Electoral College, and for which candidate?
The Associated Press: Five questions as Trump and Biden prepare for their final debate.
On Wednesday night, US intelligence officials announced at a hastily convened news convention that Iran and Russia had received registration knowledge from the US electorate and were interfering with US elections to undermine the confidence of voters through information. wrong. Tehran sent threatening emails and text messages to Democrats claiming to belong to far-right pro-Trump groups such as the Proud Boys, they said. There is no evidence that actual ballots or votes have been falsified, according to officials, who claimed Iran’s reason was to harm Trump. did not promptly provide responses (The New York Times and The Hill).
Axios: “This knowledge can be used through foreign actors to verify and disseminate false data to the registered electorate that they hope will sow confusion, wreak havoc and undermine their confidence in American democracy,” said National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe John Lee Ratcliffe Senate Facilitators Biden are appointing King as Director of National Intelligence: the Haspel report is not provided at Trump’s most recent intelligence briefing : MORE reports announced.
Republicans seek to beat Warnock before Georgia’s circular of the moment We want a (common) solution of the ”sense of the Senate” about transition plans Republican senators say Warren’s nomination would divide PLUS Republicans (R-Fla. ) And prominent member Mark Warner (D-Va. ), in a set before that of the government, said, “As we entered the last few weeks before the election, we urged all Americans, adding members of the media, to distrust believing or spreading sensational unverified claims similar to voting and voting”(The Hill).
Related: According to a recent Ipsos vote aimed at foreign technology dominance, 74% of the electorate is involved by foreign interference in elections.
The Washington Post: Focused on Hunter Biden, Trump’s investigation into the firing of FBI Director Christopher Wray.
The Charlotte Observer: Trump, campaigning in Gastonia, North Carolina, Wednesday night (pictured below), told an estimated crowd of 15,000 that Democratic management had disastrous consequences for the United States. “If Biden wins, protesters who burn the flag on the street will “run his federal government,” he said, returning to the issue of law and order. “They will re-educate their children, letting the MS-13’s troublemakers and killers roam freely with a mask. “
While urging the progressive electorate to travel to North Carolina, Harris told reporters Wednesday that Biden could deal with the president’s attacks in the debate because he understood which electorate should be informed of the candidates.
“They want to hear a verbal exchange about how we’re going to put food on American tables when there are other people in the queues,” he said. “He knows that other people want to know how we’re going to run families through the end of the month and pay the rent. “
At an open-air demonstration in Philadelphia on Wednesday, former President Obama, who doubts the former vice president in the final days of the campaign, criticized Trump for losing tasks in the United States, out-of-control epidemics, and deaths by COVID-19 and goP.
“Our democracy won’t work if the other people who are meant to be our leaders lie every day and just make things up,” Obama said after cutting off a mask adorned with the word “VOTE. “Participants slept in their cars, honking their horns and clapping as night fell. “This perception of truth, democracy and citizenship and being guilty are not Republican or Democratic principles. These are American principles, ” he continued. ” And we have to get them back. “
The former president will do it for Biden and Harris in Miami on Saturday (The Hill).
Early Wednesday, Obama suggested black men exercise their strength by voting before November 3. “The government is us. From, through and to the people. It hasn’t been for all of us, however, the way it’s designed, it works” depending on who’s at the table,” he said at a 14-man roundtable on one occasion in Philadelphia (The Associated Press).
The US Elections Project reports that more than 44 million Americans have already voted this morning, nearly 32% of the overall voter turnout in 2016.
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BOSS OF THE DAY
CONGRESS: The White House and Democratic negotiators issue notes of optimism as they enter a few very important days to secure a imaginable coronavirus relief program, in all likelihood before the November election.
President Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiPrinceton, a history teacher, says Biden won with the volatile Klain Democratic coalition: COVID-19 relief may be just the first example of post-election bipartisan action Fears of a double recession are emerging throughout the cases of COVID -19 PLUS (D-Calif. ) It was positive Wednesday about the option to reach an agreement with Treasury Secretary Steven MnuchinSteven Terner MnuchinSteven Terner MnuchinDeadlock leaves no transparent trace to an agreement on the lame duck coronavirus Report of 12:30 The Hill: elected members of the House for Schumer’s guidance, Pelosi needs the Heroes Act as a ”starting point” in the new help talks MORE COVID-19 and the White House to provide a new stimulus investment to keep the economy flowing. “Help is on the way” with the goal of passing a bill by November for Americans to pay rent.
“There will be an invoice. The question is whether it’s time to pay the November rent, what’s my goal?Or will it be soon after, and retroactive? Pelosi told Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC. “We’re in a better position than we’ve ever been. “
“I’m optimistic, because even with what Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnell Obama said his ‘initial instinct’, Joe Wilson’s explosion in 2009 was ‘punching this guy in the head’ Cowardice profiles: trump’s Senate catalysts Dear Fellow Black Voters: Thank you, MORE said, “We don’t need to do it before the election. “Array. . . let’s continue painting so we can do it after the election,” Pelosi said, underlining McConnell’s preference not to act before the election. . Day. ” We need it before . . . But again, I need other people to know: assistance is on the way. It will be bigger, it will be better, it will be safer and it will be retroactive” (The hill).
The Hill: Powerful players and chess fit into the help of COVID-19.
Pelosi resumed talks with Mnuchin on Wednesday, which led the two sides “to be able to put a pen on paper to draft the legislation,” according to Drew Hammill, a spokesman for Pelosi. Hammill added that while “more paintings are desired” to fund schools, both sides are overcoming the gap in fitness priorities. Pelosi and Mnuchin are expected to speak today.
Hours earlier, the White House had projected a similar sense of hope. Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Mark Randall Meadows, Silicon Valley, in the absence of Biden, will cancel Trump’s visa regulations. Chelsea Clinton blames Trump for quarantined secret service agents. The report said in an interview that 48 hours between Wednesday afternoon and the end of the week would result in deciding whether the two sides can agree on the way forward. Array added that discussions have entered a “new phase”.
“Negotiations have entered a new phase, which is more technically looking for the right language if we can agree with the numbers,” Meadows told Fox Business. “We are still separated, there are still a number of disorders to be solved, but the last 24 hours have moved the ball to the field “(El Cerro).
The Associated Press: Pandemic relief faces uncertainty in the post-election session.
The Wall Street Journal: Actions fall as stimulus negotiations continue.
Despite the progress, Trump made his last foray into talks Wednesday night to reiterate his opposition to any package that includes a really large amount of budget for state and local governments. The president tweeted that he sees no form of Pelosi and Senate minority leader Charles SchumerChuck. SchumerBiden can lose only the races for the Georgia Senate. (DN. Y. ) They are willing to make the right decisions for workers, as their “main goal is to DRAW poorly controlled (and high-crime) Democratic cities and states.
The White House’s most recent $1. 8 trillion offering included $300 billion to help state and local governments. Democrats asked for $436 billion in their $2. 2 trillion proposal.
As talks continue among key negotiators, Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked a $500 billion coronavirus aid package, which would have a new investment circular for a small business loan program and provide Senate Republicans with a hot topic in the last 12 days of the November election.
As Jordain Carney of The Hill writes, the bill included a federal unemployment benefit, some other investment circular for the payment check coverage program, a bill of more than $100 for schools, and a new investment for coronavirus testing and vaccine studies and distribution. voting as a trick, McConnell willing to force the minority party to officially claim the bill.
“The overwhelming majority of those are systems that Democrats claim to have. Well, it turns out that being a united States senator has a specific advantage. When you really do something, you vote for it . . . When you literally need a result, you vote for it. Interestingly, that’s not what’s happening,” McConnell said before the vote.
The Washington Post: Senate Democrats block the bill as the grudge deepens on Capitol Hill.
Alexander Bolton, The Hill: GOP shift emerges with Trump, McConnell.
Politician: Senate Democrats voted Wednesday to block Republican bill coronavirus relief plan, bill is almost equal to Republican stimulus package democrats rejected in September
The Hill: House minority leader Kevin McCarthyKevin Owen McCarthyThe Lincoln Project resurfaces in Kellyanne Conway’s tweet that rates 306 electoral votes as “historic. “The Hill’s Morning Report – Biden wins Arizona, talks to Democratic leaders; Trump tweets pelosi faces divisions in the Biden era more (R-Calif. ) He faces repression from Republicans concerned about interview comments.
> Judge Amy Coney BarrettAmy Coney Barrett Serious assistance from judges to save ObamaCare – for now, Trump cross-adviser Corey Lewandowski tested positive for coronavirus The white house political director tested positive for COVID-19 after attending election night The Judiciary Committee votes on its Nomination to the Supreme Court ( Fox News). The panel is expected to vote today along the lines of the party to send its nomination to the Senate Of the Whole for a vote scheduled for Monday, however, 10 Democrats plan to boycott the committee’s roll call vote, complicating procedural regulations for the majority. Republicans (The Hill). The 48-year-old appeals court is expected to hand down sentencing for confirmation and swearing before Election Day to fill a position created through overdue Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg Ruth Bader Ginsburg Judges are helping save ObamaCare – for now, Biden is about to repeal Trump’s abortion regulations. Will the Supreme Court eliminate ObamaCare? More.
FOCUS / PICO SHOTS
MORE POLITICAL: The president’s re-election crusade has attempted to hijack the page of the COVID-19 pandemic, but a wave of new proven cases is sweeping the United States as Election Day approaches, highlighting the administration’s decisions since the beginning of the pandemic.
“We are at a precarious time,” said David Rubin, a pediatrician who runs PolicyLab at Philadelphia Children’s Hospital, whose models show evolving conditions in much of the country. The pandemic is “accelerating and accelerating rapidly. Now we’re seeing hospitals exceed their capacity at Upper Midwest in Salt Lake, where hospitals are filling up, and it’s not until mid-October.
According to The Hill’s analysis, the number of new coronavirus infections shown in the following week has been higher in 44 states than in the following week and cases decreased for two consecutive weeks or more in just two states: California and Hawaii.
> House of Pain: House Democrats dive demed de more into Republican territory, to capitalize on weak Trump polls with the most sensible price and a difficult environment for the Republican Party two weeks before Election Day
As Jonathan Easley of The Hill writes, the House Democrats’ crusader arm, which has surpassed the Republican National Congress Committee by more than $60 million in this cycle, is unfolding with new ads classified in districts where Trump won double-digits four years ago. sit in states like Arizona, Minnesota, Montana and Michigan, and the committee hopes to secure seats in districts even if Trump wins them for little in 2020.
Overall, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has surrounded 18 districts it hopes to overthrow in two weeks.
> Alabama: On Wednesday, the Supreme Court in a 5-3 ruling blocked a first-instance judge’s ruling that would have allowed, although not mandatory, Alabama counties to propose street voting to help the elderly and disabled vote on the user without having to make long lines for the new York Times coronavirus pandemic).
> More than 4. 9 million classified ads have been broadcast in federal political careers (Camera, Senate and President) on national television and cable television since January 2019, twice as much as in the 2012 and 2016 presidential election cycles, and well above last a medium-term record in 2018, according to a Wednesday report released through Wesleyan Media ProjectArray that tracks political announcements. If you think you haven’t noticed those political messages, possibly because you don’t live in Phoenix, Charlotte, North Carolina, or Des Moines, Iowa, the maximum target media markets for classified political television ads this cycle. Classified presidential television and cable ads have lately surpassed 100,000 broadcasts consistent with the week, well above the last two presidential cycles.
Survey: A new Suffolk-USA Today ballot from the most likely electorate in Pennsylvania found biden was ahead of Trump 49-42%, while 18% of respondents said they had already voted. A Ballot from Quinnipiac University of the probably Pennsylvania electorate reports that Biden takes Trump through 8 points. . . A New York Times-Siena College vote of voters probably in Iowa found biden leading Trump through 3 points, with a 4% margin of error in points of age. . . The Registered Electorate’s Politico-Morning Consult vote found biden had a slight 45-44% credit for Trump over electorate candidates who accept as true with the electorate to run the economy, while Biden outperated the president by 51% to 36% in confidence in health care. Fifty-one percent of respondents said the Senate deserves to verify Barrett before the Supreme Court.
> Giuliani: Former New York mayor and non-public lawyer Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Rudy Giuliani and the pandemic that plagues MORE has succumbed to a film prank through Sacha Baron Cohen in a sequel to “Borat” that will premiere Friday. film, a copy of which was received through NBC News, Giuliani and a young woman who became a journalist, who was part of Cohen’s satirical sting, can be seen entering a hotel room, at the invitation of the woman, after completing what Giuliani is the idea of The Movie, which will premiere on Amazon Prime Video , shows 76-year-old Giuliani dressed in a bed. back her blouse (The New York Times).
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Opinion
What’s in a name? Many, if it is “Kamala”, through Francis Wilkinson, opinion contributor to Bloomberg Opinion. Https://bloom. bg/3kjmFFn
Winter is coming for the bars. Here’s how to save them, through Elisabeth Rosenthal, an opinion contributor, The New York Times. Https://nyti. ms/3kjFFnt
WHERE AND WHEN
The House is in Washington until after the election.
The Senate will meet at noon. The Senate Judiciary Committee will meet at nine a. m. and is scheduled to hold an assembly at 1 p. m. to vote on Barrett to an associate judge in the Supreme Court.
The president will fly to Nashville with Melania Trump’s first child, Melania Trump, Chelsea Clinton, blaming Trump for secret service officials on a quarantine crusade at 3 p. m. in the city earlier in the moment and final debate with Biden at nine p. m. Edt.
Vice President Pence flies to Waterford Township, Michigan, to headline a rally at 12:35 p. m. , then travels to Fort Wayne, Indonesia, for the cross rally at 4:30 p. m. He’ll spend the night in Indianapolis.
Economic Indicators: The Department of Labor at 8:30 a. m. unemployment claims filed in the week ending October 17. Continuous symptoms of paint dislocation with a consensus expectation of 875,000 are expected. The National Association of Real Estate Agents reports at 10 a. m. housing sales in September (should be up for the fourth consecutive month; August recorded a 2. 4% increase).
Biden-Harris Crusade Events: Biden will appear in front of Trump at the level of tonight’s presidential debate. Harris will host a virtual rally “Women for Biden” at 4:30 p. m. Edt.
News and interviews from Hill. TV’s “Rising” http://thehill. com/hilltv or YouTube at 10:30 a. m. EDT on Rising on YouTube.
ANOTHER PART
GAY RIGHTS: During the comments filmed for a documentary released Wednesday at the Rome Film Festival, Pope Francis Trump tweets Hill’s Crusade report: Republican senators say Biden deserves briefings l Biden talks to the Democratic leaders of COVID l Where the circular of the moment in Georgia Biden is discussed With Pope Francis MORE has the first pontiff to approve homosexual civil unions. Contrary to the official teachings of the Catholic Church, the Pope said that same-sex couples have the right to initiate a circle of relatives and are “children of God. “His comments were hailed by gay Catholics and challenged by church conservatives (The Associated Press).
PURDUE PHARMA CULPABLE: OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to criminal fees in a primary lawsuit in the United States similar to their marketing of the addictive painkiller. The Department of Justice announced a $8. 3 billion deal with the company on Wednesday. The Sackler family, which owns Purdue Pharma, agreed to pay $225 million in civil consequences while investigations continue. Since Purdue has taken over bankruptcy court coverage amid a wave of lawsuits, the company must pay any amount close to the agreement negotiated by the government (The New York Times). Opioids have killed more than 450,000 Americans over the past two decades.
CORONAVIRUS: Hospitals in the country’s giant and small states are beginning to decline under the weight of COVID-19 infection buildup, indicating a resurgence in the number of cases that may soon be followed by overworked doctors and an increase in some states, with grim statistics and a long winter ahead , are quick to ensure that hospital capacity is supported through emergency preparedness, such as cash hospitals, if necessary. the average of new instances reached nearly 60,000, the highest since July (The Associated Press).
> Vaccines: A volunteer in AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine trial died in Brazil, but a Brazilian newspaper reported that the patient had won a placebo that the experimental vaccine. The trial will continue (Reuters).
> Events: The annual cherry blossom parade in the country’s capital has been cancelled next spring due to precautions against the pandemic, the Cherry Blossom Festival will take place from March 20 to April 11 (WTOP).
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Closer
And finally . . . It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for this week’s morning reporting quiz! Inspired by the 116th World Series, featuring the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Tampa Bay Rays, we can’t wait to guess the story of the Fall Classic.
Email your answers to asimendinger@thehill. com and/or aweaver@thehill. com, and upload “Quiz” to the thematic lines. Winners who submit the right answers will get a well-deserved reputation in the newsletter on Friday.
Which two players (batsman and pitcher) have the record for home runs and maximum strikeouts in World Series history?
Which existing franchise is the only one that won and lost a World Series while it was founded in 3 cities?
Which player has NOT controlled 3 house races in a single World Series game?
Which World Series champion team would be the first to arrive at the White House?
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