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OCTOBER 15, 2020
Campaign 2020
President Trump Holds Rally in Greenville, North Carolina
President Trump delivered remarks at a campaign rally in Greenville, NC, less than three weeks before Election Day and on the first day of voting in the state. During his remarks, President Trump hit on a number of his campaign’s cornerstone issues, including the economy, trade, and border security. He also criticized North Carolina’s Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and called on him to reopen the state. Also during his remarks, President Trump talked about a recent New York Post story regarding his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. President Trump was next expected to travel to Florida and Georgia the following day to continue a campaign swing through the Southeast U.S. 

Greenville hosts President Trump at airport Thursday

Oct. 16, WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. --President Trump made another campaign stop in North Carolina, with just over three weeks to go until Election Day.
The president held a rally at the Pitt-Greenville Airport in Greenville. This will mark his first visit since he was diagnosed with the coronavirus.

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Election 2020: is US democracy in danger and what if Trump does
Oct 9, 2020
President Trump has questioned the very electoral system that saw him win the White House four years ago.

US election 2020: mail-in ballots, voting rights – and what might happen on election night

Oct 15, 2020
President Trump is questioning the very electoral system that saw him win the White House four years ago.
With mail-in balloting and early voting already taking place, misinformation is rife about the security and safety of American democracy.

As both parties argue over deadlines and prepare lawyers for election day, how long will this electoral battle go on? When will we know the winner on the night itself? And will the 2020 election ultimately harm the United States’ standing as the centre of the free world?

We speak to Protect Democracy’s Jess Marsden about Republicans and Democrats debating the voting rules, Professor Edward Foley on election night worries, and the historian and journalist Anne Applebaum on what this all means for American democracy.     source

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OCTOBER 14, 2020
Campaign 2020President Trump Holds Campaign Rally in Des Moines, Iowa
President Trump delivers remarks at a campaign rally in Iowa’s capital of Des Moines.

'You're a big state to me': Trump pitches rural voters at Iowa campaign rally

Oct. 14, DES MOINES – Facing tightening polls with less than three weeks before Election Day, President Donald Trump sought to appeal to rural voters at a campaign rally in Iowa, a state he won handily just four years ago. 

"You're a big state to me," Trump told thousands of supporters at  Des Moines International Airport. "You have tremendous influence and tremendous power and you've never let me down." 

The president appeared at his third rally in as many days more than a week after he was hospitalized for COVID-19. Trump is looking to close the gap with Biden, who has consistently maintained an edge over the president in national polls and in some key battleground states.
  
The pair remain locked in a dead heat in Iowa but the former vice president leads Trump by 6 points in Michigan and Nevada, according to a CBS/YouGov poll taken between Oct. 6-9. 

Trump disputed polls showing him tied or behind Biden, insisting that his campaign has "more enthusiasm now than we ever did four years ago." 

After noting the windy weather, Trump put on his signature "Make America Great Again" red hat, declaring: "If you can wear the hat then I can wear the hat."     continue to read

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OCTOBER 13, 2020
Campaign 2020President Trump Holds Campaign Rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania
President Trump delivers remarks at a campaign rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

Trump holds a Make America Great Again rally as he campaigns at John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. 

Donald Trump rallies in Pennsylvania
The president, trailing in polls and fresh off a coronavirus infection, is addressing thousands at a packed rally in Johnstown.

Oct. 13 - “Suburban women will you please like me?” Trump pleaded. “I saved your damn neighborhood!”

The president won the state by a 0.7-point margin in 2016, and is now trailing his opponents by seven points. White, politically moderate women, who helped him win four years ago, are now defecting to Biden per a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll.

As he did at his Florida rally yesterday Trump threatened to kiss “every man and woman” – now that he says recovered from Covid-19.      source

US elections 2020: what if Donald Trump refuses to concede?
Trump has repeatedly stated that he may refuse to accept defeat in the coming election. As Lawrence Douglas explains, things could get very messy if the result is close

Oct. 14 - In the run-up to the 2016 election, Donald Trump famously declared that he would accept the result of the contest with Hillary Clinton, before pausing for dramatic effect and adding: “If I win.” Even after being sworn in as president he cast doubt over the legitimacy of millions of votes that had seen him lose the popular vote while winning in the electoral college.
This time around, with millions more than usual expected to vote by mail and with him trailing badly in the polls, Trump is once again questioning the legitimacy of the voting system.

Prof Lawrence Douglas, the author of the recently published Will He Go?, tells Anushka Asthana that the stage is being set for a disputed election if the result hinges on small margins and mail-in ballots, which take longer to count. In this scenario, he believes Trump is likely to refuse to concede if the vote goes against him.

It could open up a legal and political minefield that the US constitution and the separated powers of the US government is ill-equipped to deal with. One thing is clear: a new president must be sworn in at noon on 21 January 2020. But who turns up to that ceremony could be the result of a bitter and protracted battle.     source

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‘He’s so jacked up’: Trump blasted after vowing to kiss the ‘beautiful women’ at Florida rally
President Trump spreads open his arms as he speaks about the success of the Farmers to Families Food Box feeding program.

Oct. 12 -  It all started with a delusional message Monday night from President Donald J. Trump where he told his MAGA-loving supporters in Florida, “Now they say I’m immune. I can — I feel so powerful… I’ll walk into that audience, I’ll walk in there, I’ll kiss everyone in that audience. I’ll kiss the guys and the beautiful women …” He continued, “I’ll just give you a big, fat kiss.”


At one point, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was seen in the audience “clutching his pearls” as one viewer shared.

Additional reactions below for amusement and confusion on just about every single level imaginable.   more details

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President Donald Trump leaves the White House for Florida on Monday afternoon; it was raining and the president was not wearing a face mask

A mask-free Donald Trump departed for Florida on Monday for his first campaign rally after his battle with COVID, where hundreds of supporters awaited him with few wearing face coverings or practicing social distancing. The president didn't take questions before he boarded Air Force One for the trip to the Orlando Sanford International Airport, where his mega rally will take place outdoors. It's his first trip on the plane since Thursday, October 1, when he attended a fundraiser at his golf club in Bedminister, New Jersey, the day before the White House announced he and the first lady tested positive for the coronavirus.

Business as usual: Mask-free Donald Trump leaves the White House for outdoor mega-rally in Sanford, Florida, as his doctor says he tested negative for COVID on 'consecutive days' - but won't say which days

Oct. 13 - A mask-free Donald Trump departed for Florida on Monday for his first campaign rally after his battle with COVID, where hundreds of supporters awaited him with few wearing face coverings or practicing social distancing.

The president didn't take questions before he boarded Air Force One for the trip to the Orlando Sanford International Airport, where his mega rally will take place outdoors.

It's his first trip on the plane since Thursday, October 1, when he attended a fundraiser at his golf club in Bedminister, New Jersey, the day before the White House announced he and the first lady tested positive for the coronavirus.
In Florida, hundreds of supporters waited for the president. They walked in close quarters as they queued up in a line that stretched down the street.
 
Few were wearing face masks even as COVID cases are on the rise in the state. 
Campaign volunteers took temperatures and passed out masks, but the campaign did not require attendees to wear them. 
Dr. Anthony Fauci said such rallies are 'asking for trouble.'

He argued this it the 'worst time' to have rallies...     continue to read

Amy Coney Barrett: US supreme court nominee delivers opening statement
Oct 12, 2020
US supreme court nominee Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in during Monday's opening confirmation hearing before the Senate judiciary committee and she told senators she was humbled to be considered to fill the seat left by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. President Donald Trump had formally nominated Barrett on 26 September. Trump's nomination of Barrett to a vacancy created by the death last month of Justice Ginsburg just weeks before the election enraged Democrats, still furious about Republicans' refusal to consider a nominee from Democratic President Barack Obama some 10 months before the 2016 election.

PBS NewsHour full episode, Oct. 12, 2020
Oct 13, 2020
Monday on the NewsHour, the Senate Judiciary Committee begins confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s latest nominee to the Supreme Court. Plus: An update from the presidential campaigns, global protests by Indigenous peoples, Rick Gates on President Trump, a competitive Texas congressional district, Politics Monday and the legacy of NBA superstar LeBron James.

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‘He’s going to kill himself’: Trump aides concerned as he demands to be on the road every day until the election

Oct. 11 - President Donald Trump’s aides are concerned that he may be risking his life as he launches into a huge travel schedule until Nov. 3.

Axios reported Sunday that Trump understands he’s losing and he’s prepared to do whatever it takes.

“His team is in the process of scheduling events to make that happen,” the site said, citing two sources.

“He’s going to kill himself,” said one adviser.     more details

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Trump claims he no longer has Covid-19 and is 'immune' – as it happened
Oct. 11, 2020
When asked whether he still had Covid-19, Donald Trump said he was now 'immune' to the disease. Speaking on Fox News, the US president said he would be immune 'maybe for a short time, maybe for a long time,' adding that he was 'in very good shape'. People who have had Covid-19 can be reinfected.

Donald Trump claims he is immune to Covid-19 – video

• Donald Trump has started to say that he is “immune” to Covid-19 after contracting the virus, contradicting evidence that people can get the virus more than once and ignoring the lack of research about how long antibodies are effective. Twitter flagged Trump’s tweet that claims he’s immune to the virus, saying that it contains misleading information.
• Dr Anthony Fauci spoke out against a Trump campaign ad that took praise he gave for the coronavirus task force out of context. In the rare pushback to Trump, Fauci said that the GOP did not get his permission to use the clip and reiterated that he has never publicly endorsed any political candidates “in my nearly five decades of public service”.
• The opening statement Amy Coney Barrett, the supreme court nominee whose nomination process will start in the Senate tomorrow, has been leaked and reveals Barrett will say that she would apply the “law as written” and speak about the influence of the late supreme court justice Antonin Scalia on her judicial philosophy.
• A new national poll from ABC News and the Washington Post shows Joe Biden maintaining a large lead over Donald Trump, with Biden holding a 12% lead over the incumbent just three weeks until the presidential election.   source

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Trump hoping to strike last-minute nuclear arms deal with Putin before election: report

Oct. 10 - ...Details of the negotiations have been limited to certain officials, with one administration official telling Axios that just the highest levels of the National Security Council and the State Department, as well as some Senate Foreign Relations Committee members and a national security group, have knowledge on the discussions. 
Besides the upcoming election, the Trump administration is also hoping to meet a Feb. 5 deadline, as it is the expiration of New START, the current nuclear arms deal between Russia and the U.S.
Putin and Democratic nominee Joe Biden have both expressed interest in extending the agreement five years.

'But Trump officials want to adjust the deal, made during the Obama administration, to ensure both sides would stop building nuclear warhead stockpiles. The U.S. also wants Russia to commit to talks involving a nuclear arms agreement that includes China... 

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Priorities USA ad hits Donald Trump on efforts to end Affordable Care Act
The U.S. Supreme Court could strike down that law in an upcoming ruling.

Oct. 11 - The Democratic super PAC Priorities USA Action is launching a new 30-second ad hitting President Donald Trump for attempting to undo the Affordable Care Act.

The ad will run in Florida as well as other swing states such as Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Former President Barack Obama‘s signature bill could be struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. Priorities USA Action warns Trump’s rush to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the high court only amplifies that possibility

“For nearly four years, Donald Trump has tried to kill the Affordable Care Act,” the narrator begins before the ad plays old quotes from the President.

“We want to terminate health care,” Trump said. “We almost have Obamacare gone”...     continue to read

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OCTOBER 10, 2020
Weekly Democratic Address
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) delivered the Weekly Democratic Address ahead of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court.

PBS NewsHour Weekend Full Episode October 10, 2020
Oct 11, 2020
On this edition for Saturday, October 10, President Trump holds his first large in-person public event since his COVID-19 diagnosis even though it's unclear if he is still contagious and in “Roads to Election 2020,” Maine’s unique voting system and why it matters this election.

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Election Day is Nov. 3, 2020
Find out where Trump and Biden stand on defense and security issues
Oct. 10, 2020

Arms Control:

U.S. President Donald Trump: The Trump administration has withdrawn the U.S. from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, and (almost) the 1992 Open Skies Treaty. It has loosened the Missile Technology Control Regime’s restrictions on selling armed drones to foreign governments amid concerns about China’s defense relationships in the Middle East. As of press time, administration officials have been unwilling to extend the 2010 New START nuclear pact with Russia, which expires in February, insisting that a new version include Russia’s growing arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons and China, whose smaller arsenal is rapidly expanding and which appears unwilling to sign such an agreement.

Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden: Favored by arms control advocates, Biden has promised to renew New START and would likely accept Russia’s offer to extend it five years without preconditions. He also said he would rejoin the Iran nuclear deal if it returned to full compliance described in the agreement. While Trump has loosened restrictions on the use of landmines by the U.S. military in conflict areas, Biden has said the move unnecessarily puts civilians at risk and that he would reverse it...     more details

Armenia-Azerbaijan: The conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, explained
Oct. 9, 2020

Massacres are unfolding in Nagorno-Karabakh. The enclave in the South Caucasus is the centre of dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Recent military clashes between the two countries have led to hundreds of people dying, including military personnel and civilians. They are the deadliest clashes since the 1991-94 war over Nagorno-Karabakh that killed about 30,000. To understand why we're seeing a resurgence of deadly violence, Emanuela Campanella takes a deep dive into the contested region’s turbulent past.

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