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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.
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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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10/18/2020

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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.
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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

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

10/17/2020

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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
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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

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.

10/16/2020

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Oct 16, 2020
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. 

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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
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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

10/13/2020

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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

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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