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White House News (白宮消息) | Sep. 23, 2020

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Trump suggested that Biden's smooth face was due to a little nip-and-tuck and mocked the Democrat for wearing a mask, even laughing about how he let's it 'hang down on his ear' 

President Donald Trump again mocked Joe Biden for wearing a mask and asked a crowd in Pittsburgh why the Democrat would spend 'all that money on the plastic surgery' to cover up his face. 'He feels good about the mask,' Trump riffed. 'I wonder in the debate, it will be him and I the stage, is he going to walk in with a mask?'

Donald Trump mocks Biden for wearing a mask and wonders why he spent 'all that money on the PLASTIC SURGERY' if he's going to cover his face

Sep. 24 - President Donald Trump again mocked Joe Biden for wearing a mask and asked a crowd in Pittsburgh why the Democrat would spend 'all that money on the plastic surgery' to cover up his face. 
'He feels good about the mask,' Trump riffed. 'I wonder in the debate, it will be him and I the stage, is he going to walk in with a mask?'
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Senator Romney on Supreme Court Vacancy
Sen. Mitt Romney spoke briefly with the press from Capitol Hill about his decision to support a vote on the next Supreme Court nominee to fill the seat vacated after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg from cancer. Citing historical and Constitutional precedent as his reasons in supporting a vote, the senator said that he recognizes “that we may have a court that has more of a conservative bent than it’s had over the last few decades, but my liberal friends, over many decades, have gotten used to the idea of having a liberal court, and that’s not written in the stars.”

Mr Romney, who has clashed fiercely with Mr Trump, was seen as a possible Republican holdoutMr Romney, who has clashed fiercely with Mr Trump, was seen as a possible Republican holdout

Ginsburg Supreme Court: Republicans secure vote for replacement

Republicans have secured the numbers needed to ensure that President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee will face a confirmation vote in the Senate.

Sep. 23 - Senator Mitt Romney of Utah has given the party the 51 backers needed to move forward with voting on Mr Trump's candidate to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday.

Democrats argued there should be no confirmation in an election year.

The move guarantees a bitter political battle going into November's vote.

President Trump says he will announce his chosen nominee on Saturday at 17:00 local time (22:00b), and has vowed to pick a woman.

Supreme Court justices are nominated to the bench by the US president, but must be approved by the Senate.
With the death of Justice Ginsburg, a liberal stalwart, Mr Trump has been given the chance to cement a rightward ideological tilt of the nine-member court by replacing her with a conservative.

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has vowed to hold a confirmation vote before the election in November, but a question mark had hung all week over whether enough Republicans in the chamber would back him...     more