Perhaps, after all, there might not be a virtual presidential debate . . .
The president’s son, Eric, also began raising objections, with an unfounded accusation through Trump’s crusade that Joe Biden used a hearing in the debates.
After the first debate, Trump’s crusade posted classified ads on Facebook falsely stating that Biden had used a headset in the first debate, a manipulated photograph.
The Presidential Debate Commission announced that the Trump-Biden debate would take place virtually and said in a statement:
In order to suit and protect everyone, the timing of the presidential debate will take the form of a municipal meeting, involving applicants from remote locations.
Participants in the municipal assembly and moderator Steve Scully of C-SPAN will continue to be founded at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida, as planned, and President Trump will participate from the White House. The debate is scheduled for October 15. For now, there is no comment from any of the campaigns on the proposed new format.
An immediate effect is that it will eliminate any disorder away between the two applicants or if there are plexiglass screens between them. That has become a source of contention between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris’ groups before their vice-presidential debate on Wednesday night. agreed to have the debate seated and at least 12 feet away, with screens between them.
It is not known if Scully will be equipped with a mute button. The first debate between the president and Joe Biden was widely criticized for the number of times Trump was able to interrupt the former vice president. Both campaigns comply with any changes in the rules.
There is a precedent for an American election to involve a debate: in 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon debated remotely, with Nixon in Los Angeles and Kennedy in New York.
Philip Bump, who wrote for The Washington Post this morning, was also not inspired by Mike Pence last night: “All fair politicians are the same. Every member of Trump’s price list is unfair in his own way. “
The first thing Vice President Pence did during Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate was not true: he said President Trump had “suspended all travel from China” to stop the spread of the new coronavirus in the United States. others had traveled from China to China after the restrictions came into force.
Pence’s statement at the time is not much better, insisting that former Vice President Joe Biden had described the restrictions as “xenophobic. “Biden called Trump xenophobic, but not obviously in relation to the restrictions announced a few minutes before Biden did not know.
Two-on-two on false or misleading accusations as soon as they leave the door is nothing new in the Trump administration. The difference between Pence and Trump is largely a matter of style.
Bump says that where Pence excelled in “radical rhetoric that either desperately cynical or infinitely ironic. “
He quoted Pence criticizing Kamala Harris for “playing politics with people’s lives” about vaccines, literally a day after his boss tweeted this:
Bump writes:
The most heinous facet of Pence’s response, of course, is Pence’s insistence that Harris not “do politics with people’s lives. “He’s the vice president who serves Donald Trump, saying a politician shouldn’t do politics with the pandemic.
It was Donald Trump who encouraged states to reject economic closures, risking further spread of the virus, in the hope that the economy would recover before Election Day. Donald Trump who refused to wear a mask or embrace social estating and mocked Biden for taking those steps, rejoicing in the applause of his base when he did, Donald Trump, who explained how the death toll in the United States is attributed to deaths in states that did not vote for him in 2016.
Read more here: Washington Post – All fair politicians are the same. Every member of Trump’s price bulletin is unfair in his own way
Lisa Lerer writes this morning for the New York Times about how last night’s vice presidential debate was strangely general and in the midst of a pandemic that affected the president himself, and as a result of last week’s tumultuous Trump-Biden debate.
As applicants have done for decades, they have largely dodged the most attractive questions. When asked whether they had discussed guarantees or procedures “with respect to the presidential disability factor”, a factor of maximum wisdom given the two septuagenarios at most. sensitive to the list — anyone has shyed away from giving an answer.
Pence refused to say whether his idea of a electorate deserved more data on President Trump’s health, nor was he dedicated to a nonviolent power movement. Harris refused to answer whether long-term Biden management would compete with the Supreme Court, despite Pence’s most productive efforts.
“Will you and Joe Biden pack up if Judge Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed?” asked Mr. Pence. “I’d like you to answer the question. ” She didn’t.
Lere, however, was not inspired by the way the current Vice-President tried to signal the debate.
In his final comments to the debate, Pence asked for courtesy, a speech that is difficult to swallow as he performs under a president who flourishes as he ignites the country’s divisions and after a debate in which he interrupted Harris.
His words sounded surprisingly like the popular political pablum of an earlier era. If Trump’s crusade sought to assign a sense of normalcy amid this endless pandemic, Mr. Pence would possibly have achieved that purpose in the 90 minutes of the debate.
But after 4 years of this administration, we all know it’s only a matter of time before a presidential tweet ruins everything again. Discussions about coexistence will seem remote and irrelevant.
Read more about the dismayed and outraged reaction of relatives of those who suffered covid-19 to Donald Trump’s words: “Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let him dominate your life” through Danielle Renwick.
When Marya Sherron read those comments, “it hurts physically,” she said. “It turns out that he calls those who died losers, as if they were too weak to fight him. “
Amanda Kloots, whose husband, actor Nick Cordero, died in July, Trump’s comments “are embarrassing. “
“I cried with my husband for 95 days watching what Covid did to the user I love. It’s anything you have to be afraid of. After seeing the user you love most die of this disease, you would never say what that tweet says, “posted to their 618,000 Instagram followers.
Kristin Urquiza, whose father Mark supported Trump in 2016 and died of the virus in June, described Trump’s tweet as a “betrayal” to his father’s memory.
Read more here: Relatives of Covid victims dismayed by Trump tweet ‘Don’t be afraid’
CNN has an engaging series of ballot numbers this morning. First, his post-debate instant ballot passed victory to Kamala Harris, but with a massive gender divide in the way other people saw him.
The men gave him a narrow 48-46 victory for the Democratic Party’s vice-presidential candidate, while the women saw it as a much clearer victory, 69-30; overall, 59 to 38.
However, a note of caution in this regard, CNN issues that its patron leans toward Democrats and counts less than a third of the panel as declared Republicans, which is a little biased.
CNN also unveiled its perspective on the Electoral College this morning, which allowed Biden to cross the 270s threshold to take the White House.
Among the states Trump won in 2016, CNN said polls show that Arizona, Michigan, the 2nd Congressional District of Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin lean toward Biden.
Here’s how they calculate the imaginable path to Trump’s victory based on existing polls:
Trump begins with a forged base of 125 electoral votes, coming from 20 states that are the most likely to be undisputed Republican victories. When that forged state base is mixed with the additional 38 electoral votes, Texas has lately tilted in its direction, bringing Trump’s overall result. 163 electoral votes – 107 votes away from re-election.
This leaves us with five states and a congressional district with a total of 85 electoral votes that are the impulses on the map: Florida, Georgia, Iowa, the 2nd Congressional District of Maine, North Carolina and Ohio.
If Trump wants to succeed in his re-election effort, he will have to start leading the table with all of them, and then locate at least 22 electoral votes lately in Biden’s favor and bring them back into his fold.
It sounds difficult, but other people said the same thing in 2016. Keep in mind that you can plot your own electoral effects with our interactive election effects creation tool.
Rudy Giuliani delivered his verdict on Kamala Harris’ last night.
Rebecca Solnit writes to us this morning that Trump’s reaction to the pandemic has been misleading and cruel, and that it goes back to the root of the challenge to the philosophy of the cult of individual freedom, disconnected from the social consequences, which, in her view, is at the heart of existing Republican ideology.
The pandemic has underpinned and intensified the desire to recognize the interdependence of all things; in this case, the way viruses spread and the duty of those in force and us to do what we can to restrict this spread and recognize the consequences that can simply break our school system, our economy, our daily lives. Organize our hopes and dreams if we don’t take care of ourselves, others, and at all.
The new right has a central principle: nothing is actually similar to anything else, so no one has any duty to anything else, and any attempt, for example, to prevent a factory from poisoning a river is an attack on freedom. Reject evidence of climate replacement and other clinical realities on the grounds that they don’t like it undermining their ideology, rather than evidence. Freedom, as they help, is the right to do what is generally necessary by others.
In its logic, poverty will have to be caused through individual disorders and not through inequalities and formula obstacles; firearm deaths should be separated from the deregulation and proliferation of firearms; taxes are a form of oppression, because no one owes anyone those who gain advantages from the formula to which taxes are subscribed (infrastructure, law enforcement, employee education) deny that their good fortune has nothing to do with anything other than their own distinctive trait of lying down and their hard work. that what we do has far-term global consequences that outrages your sense of autonomy.
Read it here: Rebecca Solnit: Trump’s reaction to the pandemic has been misleading and cruel
Kamala Harris’ maneuver to answer questions about the increase in the number of judges in the U. S. Supreme Court is one of the main issues on which conservative voices resume this morning after last night’s debate.
It is worth noting, of course, that the number of judges in court has varied over time, infrequently reaching six, seven or ten, has been (mostly) solid in nine since 1869. 2016, after Republicans refused to approve Merrick Garland’s nomination through Barack Obama.
There is a very attractive background to the history of the length of the US Supreme Court. America, and when and why it has varied, here: National Geographic: why the Supreme Court ended up with nine judges and how that change
Late last night, ABC News reported getting a memorandum circulated to FEMA executives that the coronavirus outbreak had inflamed “34 Contacts from the White House and others” in recent days.
The new figures highlight the developing crisis in the White House and the efforts of government officials to block data on the spread of the epidemic. ABC News had reported in the past that a total of 24 White House assistants and their contacts had contracted the virus. It was not transparent in the FEMA memorandum with the largest number of “other contacts” referring.
If you’ve lost track of the public figures we know we have the coronavirus of this group, here’s a reminder.
However, it should be remembered that this story is not just about politicians who contract the virus. The White House is an active construction with many employees, all of whom are potentially at risk.
Bloomberg reported overnight that a senior White House security official was seriously ill with Covid-19 and that Crede Bailey has been hospitalized since September.
The White House has not publicly revealed the identity of Bailey, who advanced to the occasion of President Donald Trump’s September 26 Rose Garden to announce his Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, who has been linked to more than a dozen cases of the disease.
A White House spokesman declined to comment on Bailey, which is up to the White House security office, which manages accreditations for access to the White House and works heavily with U. S. intelligence on the resort’s security measures.
Lately, there have been 211,834 Covid-19 deaths in the United States. With an estimated population of 322 million, this equates to approximately 100,000 American deaths.
Here’s another excerpt from last night’s debate, one of the most memorable health care exchanges in the country. Kamala Harris has issued a stern warning about the administration’s intentions about Obamacare.
Trump will dismantle the Affordable Care Act, which prevents health care corporations from denying patients with pre-existing conditions.
“If you have a pre-existing condition, a central illness, diabetes, or breast cancer, they come for you. If you love someone with a pre-existing condition, they come for you,” Harris said.
Pence responded by saying the Trump administration had a plan for others with pre-existing illnesses. Trump has spent years saying he would launch a comprehensive fitness plan. Four weeks before the election, and we haven’t noticed yet.