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OCTOBER 21, 2020
President Trump Campaigns in Gastonia, North Carolina
President Trump delivers remarks at a rally in support of his reelection held in Gastonia, North Carolina.

President Donald Trump in Gastonia, NC
Oct 21, 2020

Large crowd expected at Trump rally in Gastonia
President Trump speaks to crowd at Gastonia, N.C. rally

Oct. 21, GASTONIA, N.C. (WBTV) - President Donald Trump is visiting Gastonia Wednesday for a campaign rally.

The president will deliver remarks at a Make America Great Again Rally on Oct. 21. The event will happen at Gastonia Municipal Airport on Gaston Day Road. Doors open at 4 p.m., with the event starting at 7 p.m.

By WBTV Web Staff | October 16, 2020 at 4:36 PM EDT - Updated October 21 at 7:39 PMGASTONIA, N.C. (WBTV) - President Donald Trump is visiting Gastonia Wednesday for a campaign rally.

The president will deliver remarks at a Make America Great Again Rally on Oct. 21. The event will happen at Gastonia Municipal Airport on Gaston Day Road. Doors open at 4 p.m., with the event starting at 7 p.m.

Americans want their vote to count. Here's what voters need to know about their rightsThe Carter Center has monitored elections in some of the world’s most dangerous and corrupt countries — Sudan, Kenya and Venezuela among 39 countries in all. Now, the not-for-profit organization founded by former President Jimmy Carter is adding to that list of countries once seen as a model for fair and free elections.

Avery Davis-Roberts, associate director in the Democracy Program at the Carter Center, said in recently taped remarks, “we typically prioritize work in places where democracy seems poised to take a step forward or where it's in danger of sliding backwards. These places are often struggling with polarization, a lack of public trust, ethnic or racial divisions and fears that election results won’t be credible or accepted.

“U.S. elections have never been perfect, but generally Americans trusted in the process and believed in the results. But in the last five or 10 years, we’ve started to see many of the same discouraging trends we see in countries where we work.’’     source

Deadline Now: What To Expect In the Final Presidential Debate Between Donald Trump And Joe Biden

Oct. 22 - Thursday night’s face-off between Donald Trump and Joe Biden will not just pit the candidates against each other, it will also pit Trump against the moderator’s mute button. High drama, given that the president is behind in the polls and doesn’t have a whole lot to lose.

Biden again faces diminished expectations, but needs to be careful not to be not somnambulant — or to give Trump a Ronald Reagan-type breakout moment.     source

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Lesley Stahl was interviewing President Donald Trump for “60 Minutes.”
Trump ends ’60 Minutes’ interview, attacks Lesley Stahl on Twitter
The president, reportedly frustrated by the line of questioning, said he was considering posting the interview before airtime “for the sake of accuracy in reporting.”

Oct. 21 - At the White House on Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump ended a fiery interview taping with CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” proceeded to launch an attack against the interviewer on Twitter for not wearing a mask, and threatened to post the interview before it aired.

The drama unfolded after Trump was frustrated with the line of questioning and how the interview was being conducted, said one person familiar with the episode, while another in the room described the president as “pissed.”

The president spent more than 40 minutes with CBS News correspondent Lesley Stahl, and did not proceed to shoot a second portion of the interview that included Vice President Mike Pence. Following a short break, the president decided he had spent enough time in the interview, one White House official said. Pence went on to spend 15 minutes with Stahl and the “60 Minutes” crew.

After the interview, the president tweeted a video of Stahl speaking to producers inside the White House without a mask accompanied by the message: “Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes not wearing a mask in the White House after her interview with me. Much more to come”...     continue to read

JUST IN: Trump talks 60 Minutes interview: "Lesley Stahl is not going to be happy"
Oct 20, 2020

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OCTOBER 19, 2020
Campaign 2020
President Trump Holds Rally in Tucson, Arizona
President Trump delivers remarks at a campaign rally in Tucson, Arizona.

LIVE: Trump holds 'MAGA' rally in Tucson
Oct 19, 2020

LIVE updates: Trump targets seniors in Tucson as polling shows uneasePresident Donald Trump will spend much of his day
Oct. 19 - Monday in Arizona, with planned stops in Prescott and Tucson. The goal: Pick up as many votes as he can in rural and southern parts of the state in what is expected to be a tight presidential race against Democrat Joe Biden.

• In remarks at a Prescott Regional Airport rally, the president downplayed the COVID-19 pandemic and blasted Sen. Martha McSally's opponent, retired NASA astronaut Mark Kelly. 
• Trump is speaking now at the airport in Tucson.

OCTOBER 19, 2020
President Trump Holds Rally in Prescott, Arizona
President Trump delivers remarks at a campaign rally in Prescott, Arizona.

4:45 p.m.: Trump's imaginary conversation with ExxonMobil 'never happened' ExxonMobil issued a statement on Twitter

Monday to say President Donald Trump’s claim that he could raise more campaign money than his Democratic rival Joe Biden if he could dial up big companies and leverage the position of the office he holds.

It is illegal to solicit campaign contributions in exchange for policies. 

Trump made the comment at his first campaign stop in Prescott on Monday.
 
“Don't forget, I'm not bad at that stuff anyway, and I'm president. So I call some guy, the head of Exxon. I call the head of Exxon. I don't know,” Trump said in what appears to be an imagined discussion. 

The company issued a statement around 4 p.m., that read: “We are aware of the President’s statement regarding a hypothetical call with our CEO…and just so we’re all clear, it never happened.”

OCTOBER 19, 2020
Campaign 2020
Senator Kamala Harris Campaigns in Jacksonville, Florida
2020 vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) campaigned in Florida where she spoke at a voter mobilization event in Jacksonville on the state’s first day of in-person voting.

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OCTOBER 18, 2020
Campaign 2020
President Trump Holds Campaign Rally in Nevada's Capital
President Trump delivers remarks at a campaign rally in Nevada’s capital, Carson City.

LIVE: President Donald Trump in Carson City, NV #Nevada
Oct 18, 2020
President Trump holds rally in Carson City
Oct. 18 - CARSON CITY, Nev. (KLAS) -- President Donald Trump and his campaign are continuing their hard push in the state of Nevada. President Trump is hosting a rally Sunday afternoon at the Carson City Airport.
President Trump makes the visit following a short pit-stop in Las Vegas. While in town, President Trump attended a church service at the International Church of Las Vegas.     source

OCTOBER 18, 2020
Campaign 2020
Joe Biden Campaigns in Durham, North Carolina
2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden delivered remarks at a voter mobilization event in Durham, North Carolina.

Joe Biden holds drive-in rally in Durham to encourage North Carolina voters as early voting remains underway

Oct. 18, DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- With in-person early voting underway in North Carolina, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden made a campaign in Durham on Sunday.

Biden and his granddaughter Finnegan arrived at RDU around 12:40 p.m. and were greeted by Gov. Roy Cooper.

Biden spoke at Riverside High School in Durham around 1:45 p.m. Around 40 cars were parked in a semi-circle in the parking lot listening to the former vice president speak...

...During his speech, Biden touched on COVID-19's impact in North Carolina, criminal justice reform and the economy.

The former vice president mentioned how stable jobs and financial stability were seen a century ago in Durham where "an oasis of black-owned businesses thrived even the air of Jim Crow." Biden said Durham was "one of the first examples of flourishing Black middle class in America."

After speaking in Durham, Biden will attend a virtual meeting with African American faith leaders.

This marks Biden's second campaign stop in North Carolina since securing the nomination. His last visit was in Charlotte, where he discussed rebuilding the US economy.

The announcement came shortly after President Donald Trump announced a campaign rally in Gastonia this coming Wednesday.

On Saturday, actress Kerry Washington and her husband Nnamdi Asomugha advocated for early voting and met with Biden/Harris campaign volunteers in Durham.     source

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OCTOBER 17, 2020
Campaign 2020
President Trump Holds Rally in Muskegon, Michigan
President Trump delivers remarks at a campaign rally in Muskegon, MI.

LIVE: President Donald Trump Rally | Muskegon Michigan | MAGA | USA
Oct 17, 2020

Michigan doctors call on Trump to cancel Muskegon rally, citing rising coronavirus cases

Oct. 17 - Two western Michigan physicians urged President Donald Trump to cancel his campaign rally taking place Saturday afternoon in Muskegon, where coronavirus cases are on the uptick.

Doctors Rob Davidson and Susan Fabrick held a press conference via Zoom on Friday afternoon, less than 24 hours before doors were slotted to open at FlyBy Air near the Muskegon County Airport. The doctors said the president is failing to listen to the evidence.

"As physicians, we are really concerned about the inaccurate misinformation that President Trump repeats day after day, multiple times a day," said Fabrick, a family medicine doctor who has practiced in Muskegon for 26 years. "No matter what he claims, COVID-19 is still with us and it is still killing people."     more

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OCTOBER 16, 2020
Campaign 2020
President Trump Holds Rally in Macon, Georgia
President Trump delivers remarks at a campaign rally in Macon, Georgia.

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President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Muskegon County Airport, Saturday, Oct 17, 2020, in Norton Shores.
President Trump prompts anti-Whitmer chants of 'lock her up'

Oct. 17, Muskegon — President Donald Trump tried Saturday to tie Democratic rival Joe Biden to the radical left of his party during a Saturday rally attended by thousands of people outside an airport hangar in Muskegon.
The Republican president also insisted that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer needs to relax more COVID-19 restrictions, even though the Michigan Supreme Court already invalidated her emergency executive orders because the 1945 law she relied on was unconstitutional. She has since had her state Department of Health and Human Services issue new  epidemic orders to wear masks and limit the capacities of businesses.

“You’ve got to get your governor to open up her state." Trump said to cheering. "And get your schools open. … The schools have to be open.”...     more

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Vice-President Biden in 2016 with his son Hunter looking on

Hunter Biden: What was he doing in Ukraine and China?
President Donald Trump has repeatedly accused the Biden family of wrongdoing in regards to Ukraine and China while Joe Biden was vice-president, which the Bidens deny.

Oct. 17 - The issue has resurfaced following a New York Post article focused on an alleged email in which an adviser from a Ukrainian energy company apparently thanked Hunter Biden for inviting him to meet his father.

Allegations of influence-peddling are common in Washington DC and Mr Trump's children have also been accused of conflicts of interest in lucrative business deals overseas. They, too, deny wrongdoing.

Mr Biden is the Democratic White House challenger to Mr Trump, a Republican, in next month's presidential election.    for details click on here

US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Ocala International Airport in Ocala, Florida, US on October 16, 2020. 

‘Joe Biden is a disaster… living embodiment of corrupt political class’, says Donald Trump

US president Donald Trump called Biden a “servant of the wealthy globalist who got rich bleeding our country dry”.

Oct. 17 - US President Donald Trump again on Friday (local time) hit out at his Democratic counterpart and former Vice President Joe Biden and called him a “disaster” adding that he is “the living embodiment of the corrupt political class”.

“Biden is a disaster...Biden is the living embodiment of the corrupt political class. You look at what he has done--it is the political class that enriches itself while draining the economic life and soul from our country,” Trump said at the re-election campaign here.

“It’s a corrupt family and these people (during Thursday’s town hall in Philadelphia) did not ask him one single question about it. For the last 47 years, Joe Biden has shipped away your jobs, shut down your factories, threw open your borders,” he added.
Trump called Biden a “servant of the wealthy globalist who got rich bleeding our country dry”. The Republican candidate also attacked Biden’s son Hunter for making a “deal with a Chinese business magnet” for USD 10 million per year further adding that these deals were made “at the same time Joe Biden was letting China steal our jobs.” 

Trump said, “IF Biden won, China would own the United States,” adding that the Bidens “got rich while America got robbed.” The US President said he “wasn’t only running against Joe Biden, but also against left-wing media and big tech.”

“We are running against the left-wing media and we are running against big tech. They (the big-tech companies) were against us four years ago. Now they have gone crazy and they are doing things, they wouldn’t do; they’re getting caught,” he added.
The US Presidential elections are scheduled to take place on November 3.   source

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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event at United Association (UA) Plumbers Local 27 in Erie, PA, October 10, 2020.

Biden says Trump is ‘going to throw everything but the kitchen sink at me,’ after Hunter Biden stories spark Facebook, Twitter backlash

Oct. 15 - Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden warned campaign donors on Thursday that President Donald Trump is “going to throw everything but the kitchen sink at me” during the 19 days remaining before Election Day.

Biden told attendees that he expects additional “lies and distortion” to be directed at him by the Trump campaign.

Biden spoke a day after The New York Post ran a series of articles claiming that he had met with a Ukrainian energy executive at the behest of his son Hunter Biden who was a board member of the executive’s company, Burisma. The supposed meeting allegedly came months before then-Vice President Biden pressured Ukraine government officials to fire a prosecutor who purportedly was investigating the company.

The claim that the prosecutor was conducting such a probe at the time has been debunked.

Biden did not mention the Post’s report at Thursday’s event but did refer to “misinformation” about him.
“I know these are anxious times,” Biden told the fundraising attendees.

“I appreciate everything you’re doing for the campaign,” he said. “We have 19 days left, and you know, he’s going to throw everything but the kitchen sink at me.”

But, he added, “I think you’ve put me in a position to be able to respond in real time in a way that we can compete.”     continue to read

PBS NewsHour full episode, Oct. 16, 2020
Oct 17, 2020
Friday on the NewsHour, President Trump and Joe Biden campaign in swing states after their dueling TV town halls. Plus: Early voting begins in Texas amid suppression fears, the possible spread of Russian disinformation by a Trump ally, coronavirus cases climb across the globe, Shields and Brooks, remembering COVID-19 victims, gardening in the Arctic Circle and the reinvention of the Chicks.

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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