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White House News (白宮消息) | Sep. 24, 2020

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
President Trump Holds News Conference
President Trump declines to say if he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election, saying, “We’ll have to see what happens.” He also says he is awarding $200 million of CARES Act funding for vaccine distribution.
Trump Holds News Conference At White House | NBC News
Sep. 23, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a discussion with state attorneys general on social media abuses in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., September 23, 2020.Trump Says 2020 US Presidential Election Could End Up in Supreme Court

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump on Wednesday stated that he thinks the 2020 US presidential election will end up in the Supreme Court, suggesting that it is important to immediately fill the vacancy left after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death.


Sep. 24 - "I think this will end up in the Supreme Court," Trump told reporters. "And I think it's important we have nine justices."

The White House said Trump will announce his candidate for a Supreme Court justice on Saturday at 5:00 p.m. EST (9:00 p.m. GMT).

The 87-year-old Ginsburg, one of the nine judges on the Supreme Court and a liberal supported by Democrats and Republicans, died on 18 September of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer. Before her passing, the Supreme Court had a 5-4 conservative majority, but some justices, like John Roberts have often ruled in agreement with more liberal justices.The move by Trump and the Republicans to fill the vacancy just six weeks before the 3 November presidential election is being contested by Democrats, who note that former US President Barack Obama did not fill a vacancy left with the passing of Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016 before the presidential election.

Trump, who won the 2016 race, now faces, as his opponen

t, Obama’s former vice president, Joe Biden.     source from Sputnik
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POLITICO-Harvard poll: Pandemic fallout, racial reckoning are deeply personal to 2020 voters
A rapid approval of a coronavirus vaccine would do little to boost Trump's political fortunes, the poll also indicates.


Sep. 24 - It’s the economy, again. But it’s also the coronavirus pandemic, the upheaval it's brought to kids’ education and a nationwide reckoning on racial discrimination that’s top of mind for likely voters, according to a new POLITICO-Harvard poll gauging their attitudes heading into the presidential election.

While the economy is typically a top voter issue in presidential elections, it’s taken on new urgency with millions out of work because of the pandemic. The new poll shows that unlike some past elections, issues that are deeply personal to Americans' everyday lives, rather than policy debates that can be more abstract, rank among the most important priorities that will influence voters.     more
Meet The Press Broadcast (Full) - September 20th, 2020 | Meet The Press | NBC News
Sep 20, 2020
Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) talk about her role on the court and the fight to replace her. Andrea Mitchell and NPR's Nina Totenberg recall the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. HHS Sec. Alex Azar talks about the government response to coronavirus as the covid-19 death toll passes
Trump slammed for latest ‘frightening’ press conference: ‘The most sickening briefing we ever have witnessed’

Sep. 24 - On Wednesday, President Donald Trump gave a new press conference, during which he refused to commit to a peaceful post-election transition of power and ducked out early as he was questioned about the Breonna Taylor grand jury decision.


The president’s performance drew outrage on social media — particularly his refusal to promise he would peacefully honor the upcoming election.     more details