WASHINGTON (AP) – Latest news about the presidential crusade (every hour):
10:50 p. m.
A spokesman said Vice President Mike Pence will continue his competitive crusade program after his staff leader, Marc Short, was tested for coronavirus on Saturday.
Pence spokesman Devin O’Malley said Pence and his wife, Karen Pence, tested negative for the virus on Saturday and were healthy.
Short is Pence’s closest assistant and is thought to be a “close contact” according to the rules of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. O’Malley says that “in consultation with the White House medical unit, the vice president will make his program in accordance with CDC rules for an essential staff. “
These rules require staff exposed to a user with coronavirus to greatly control coVID-19 symptoms and wear a mask when close to others.
After a day of campaigning on Saturday, Pence noticed that he was wearing a mask while returning to Washington aboard Air Force Two once news of Short’s diagnosis was made public.
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10 p. m.
Joe Biden will travel to Georgia next week, making an overdue effort in a state that has not voted Democrats for president since 1992.
Biden’s crusade says she will be in Warm Springs, Georgia, on Tuesday, the first time she has visited the state since her Democratic presidential nomination Biden Vice President, California Sen. Kamala Harris, made several stops in Atlanta on Friday.
Biden’s crusade has said for months that it aims to restore the Democratic “blue wall” in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania that collapsed when the three pursued President Donald Trump in 2016. But the former vice president’s most sensitive advisers have been equally positive about “Extending the Electoral Map” to historically Republican states like Arizona and Georgia.
Biden visited Arizona before this month and his change in Georgia just a week before Election Day indicates that he sees what he calls the Trump administration’s failed federal reaction to the coronavirus pandemic as a way to gain more ground.
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7:20 p. m.
President Donald Trump is making sure Ohio’s citizens don’t forget that he pushed the Big Ten to play football after the season was canceled first amid considerations about the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump held a giant rally about 50 km from the Ohio State University campus, shortly after the Buckeyes won their first season game in Nebraska on Saturday afternoon.
The Big Ten had first spoiled fall sports, but last month they changed football under pressure from Trump, as well as athletes, coaches, enthusiasts and school cities who rely on football on Saturdays to fill restaurants and hotels and provide much-needed taxes. Income.
Trump told his supporters, “I know that life in Ohio is complete without the glory of Ohio state football. “
The crowd saw the Nebraska-OSU game on screens installed during Trump’s crusade before the arrival of the president, who later joked that he feared they would have been in a bad mood if the Buckeyes had lost.
The Big Ten includes groupings in some of the battlefield states critical to their re-election effort, adding Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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6:25 p. m.
President Donald Trump voted as a “direct Republican” when he voted early in Florida on Saturday.
Trump asked if he had voted for House candidate Laura Loomer, a far-right Republican candidate who banned entry to social media sites because of her racist and anti-Muslim rhetoric.
She faces current congresswoman Lois Frankel, who has been in politics for decades in the Palm Beach County district, where the Republican who opposed her in 2016 lost 27 percentage points.
Trump said he used a passport as an ID.
An assistant to the first Melania Trump said she planned to vote on Election Day.
Trump replaced his from New York to Florida last year.
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5:25 p. m.
Rock star Jon Bon Jovi gave a small concert at a rally in Pennsylvania for Joe Biden on Saturday, performing 3 songs and praising Biden’s reaction to the coronavirus.
The rocker leveled up in Dallas, Pennsylvania, dressed in a black mask that was removed to play acoustic versions of “Who Says You Can’t Go Home?”, “Livin’on a Prayer” and “Do What You Can,” which was recently released and engaged to those on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic.
Bon Jovi also drew notes congratulating Biden, saying, “I wrote my comments because I never played a drive-in with all the horns, so it’s a little different. “
The rocker added that “Joe knows masks are a sign of weakness, they’re a sign of strength. “
Speaking a speech a short time later, while many cars honked their horns in a sign of approval, Biden said Bon Jovi “had always gone where I asked him to” and called him a friend and “national treasure. “
Biden held two demonstrations in Pennsylvania on Saturday and said for months that he was planning to win a state that could play a key role in next month’s election decision.
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4:20 p. m.
Former President Barack Obama said Donald Trump’s resolve to end a previous interview this week with a 60-minute correspondent stresses that Trump is not up to the presidency.
Obama, speaking at a car rally in Miami on Saturday, said he had no words about the fact that Trump got upset after reporter Lesley Stahl pressured him on a series of problems and “got angry and withdrew from the interview. “
“Miami, listen, if you can’t answer a misleading question like” what would you like to do within a moment?”Then it’s our job to make sure you don’t get a moment’s time,” Obama said.
Obama added that Trump’s habit in the interview showed that “it wasn’t that hard. “
After interrupting the interview, Trump posted a recording of the White House interview on his Facebook page.
CBS News said the interview will air on Sunday, along with Biden.
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15 hours
Vice President Joe Biden called Trump supporters accumulated outdoors “crazy” at his rally, but said he would work hard for them if he wins next month’s presidential election.
Biden holds a socially remote demonstration Saturday in a parking lot in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, when Trump supporters can be heard interrupting within walking distance.
“I’m going to paint as hard for those who don’t make me like I do for those who do, adding the idiots with a microphone,” Biden said of Trump’s ers, who gave the impression of using a megaphone.
Trump at his own rally in Lumberton, North Carolina, mocked Biden’s rally because most of his supporters listened sitting in his cars. The president joked that the cars were “too close to each other, I think. “
“They were socially est distanced,” Trump added.
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2:30 p. m.
President Donald Trump continues to criticize Joe Biden for saying in his debate that the country is heading for a dark winter because of the pandemic, any fitness expert has been cautious for months.
“We circulate the circularArray . . . our numbers are incredible,” Trump told his supporters in Lumberton, North Carolina, even as the country’s coronavirus number reached record levels with more than 83,000 infections reported Friday.
The death toll in the United States increased to 223995, according to the COVID-19 score published by Johns Hopkins University. The total number of U. S. instances reported at the site on Friday, 83757, surpassing 77362 instances reported on July 16.
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1 p. m.
Joe Biden reiterates that he does not aim to ban hydraulic fracturing in Pennsylvania, a critical battlefield state where there are many jobs in the industry.
Speaking at a car rally on the grounds of a network school in Bristol, near Philadelphia, he said, “Let’s be clear, I’m banning hydraulic fracturing in Pennsylvania or anywhere else. “
People in about a hundred cars honked their horns.
However, Biden noted that climate change can lead to more catastrophic flooding in places like the one near the Delaware River.
“We can do anything about it,” he said, “but we’ll have to unite. “
President Donald Trump has continually accused Biden of supporting the hydraulic fracturing ban. Biden wrongly warned a number one Democratic presidential debate that he had done so, but his crusade temporarily corrected it. The former vice president promised to end hydraulic fracturing on federal lands.
Biden also said in this week’s debate with Trump that the country deserves to “get away from the oil industry” to combat climate change, something he didn’t mention Saturday. Biden has since said that the procedure would be slow and would not charge other people who count. in the energy sector their jobs.
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12:15 p. m.
Joe Biden tells his followers in Pennsylvania that he lacks a closed campaign, but that he doesn’t need his chances to be “super widespread. “It’s a beard that seems to target President Donald Trump, who is about to perform a trio of giant rallies. Saturday at a time when coronavirus instances are increasing.
At a rally behind the wheel in philadelphia’s Bristol suburb, Biden said, “I don’t like the concept of this whole distance, but it’s necessary. “
He added: “We don’t need super-stations. “
Trump’s occasions in North Carolina, Ohio, and Wisconsin occur when the United States has reached a daily record of coronavirus cases with more than 83,000 reported infections. The death toll in the United States has increased to nearly 224. 00, according to the count published through Johns. Hopkins University. The total number of instances in the United States reported on Friday, 83757, surpassing 77362 instances reported on July 16.
Trump said in a tweet that accumulation in positive cases was exaggerated.
More than two dozen White House-related Americans have contracted COVID-19 since the September 26 occasion when the president pronounced Amy Coney Barrett, a Supreme Court nominee.
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HERE’S THE MOST THAT’S HAPPENING:
10:30 a. m.
President Donald Trump voted Saturday morning in West Palm Beach, Florida, and then told reporters, “I voted for a named Trump. “
West Palm Beach is close to your personal Mar-a-Lago club. He used to vote in New York but was replaced in Florida last year.
There were several hundred supporters accumulated with flags and banners in the library where he voted. And there were chants of “Four More Years. “
The president wore a mask on the vote, but got rid of it when he approached reporters later in the building.
He called it “a very vote. ” More than when you send a ballot, I can tell you that.
Democrat Joe Biden has not yet voted and will most likely vote for a user in Delaware on Election Day on November 3. Delaware offers early voting on a user like Florida.
Trump said Friday at a rally in Florida that he likes to vote in person. “I’m old-fashioned, I suppose, ” he said.
The president has a busy Saturday, with demonstrations scheduled in North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin.
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9:20 a. m.
Joe Biden will perform two drive-in rallies in very vital Pennsylvania on Saturday as he strives to build in the state of his home.
The Democratic presidential candidate is from Scranton. He’s in a position to cross in Bucks County, southeast of Allentown, who voted for Democrats by a narrow margin in 2016.
Biden is also making plans for a stopover in Luzerne County, who four years ago was a simple Republican, northwest of Bucks County and near Scranton.
The former vice president infuriated some teams in the oil industry by suggesting in this week’s presidential debate that the United States will eventually have to abandon fossil fuels if it needs to get serious about climate replacement.
Biden says this procedure would be very slow and that it has a post-pandemic coronavirus economic plan that can create “millions” of new jobs by modernizing key infrastructure to make it greener.
Jon Bon Jovi is scheduled to perform at Biden’s drive-in in Luzerne. Su County appearance reminiscent of some on Election Day 2016, when he attended a massive outdoor concert with the Obamas and then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia. arrived hours before Clinton’s defeat to Donald Trump.
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9:00
Joe Biden says climate substitution is “the number one challenge facing humanity,” yet he is committed to generating jobs in the industry that may be just one component of federal efforts to combat it.
The Democratic presidential candidate is campaigning Saturday in Pennsylvania, where parts of the state rely heavily on the energy sector. Biden has been criticized by some in the oil industry for suggesting in this week’s debate that the United States deserves to eventually abandon fossil fuels for environmental reasons. .
Here’s what Biden said about weather replacement in an episode of “Pod Save America” that was released Saturday: “Without control, you’re really going to cook this planet.
He added: “We cannot forget people’s concerns, what does it mean for their well-being and not just in the long term and now, how do they make a living?”
Biden noted in the podcast that some unions approved their economic plan to modernize infrastructure to make it more environmentally friendly and said it can create “millions” of new jobs.
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This 9:20 a. m. Biden article has been corrected to imply that you will have occasions in Bucks County and Luzerne County, Bucks County and Lancaster County, and that Bon Jovi will only appear in Luzerne County.