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The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows Biden leading Trump 51% to 43%. A new USC Dornsife poll of 2,658 likely voters shows Biden leading Trump 51% to 42%.
After a tumultuous month of news, Biden maintains national lead over Trump
https://www.aol.com/article/news/202...rump/24624959/
Donald Trump is doing everything he can to rig the 2020 Presidential election in his favor. He continues to insist – with zero evidence – that the use of mail-in ballots will lead to massive fraud. His administration has filed several lawsuits in an effort to restrict vote-by-mail. Trump even has the Postal Service, the United States Attorney General and the Department of Justice assisting him in his dirty work. Federal judges are, to put it mildly, not too happy with Donald Trump.
Second judge rules against USPS, says election mail must be prioritized
CNN, Sep 21 2020 4:20 PM ET
The US Postal Service must prioritize election mail and reverse some key policy changes imposed by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a federal judge ruled today, saying that "managerial failures" at the agency undermined the public's faith in mail-in voting. US District Judge Victor Marrero in New York's Southern District became the second federal judge to side against USPS in the past week. A judge in Washington state ordered many similar changes on Friday and blasted the Trump administration for what he called a "politically motivated attack" on USPS.
In today's ruling, Marrero said USPS will be required to treat all election mail as first-class mail or priority mail express, and that USPS will need to "pre-approve" all overtime requests for the two weeks surrounding Election Day, to make sure absentee ballots are processed properly. "The right to vote is too vital a value in our democracy to be left in a state of suspense in the minds of voters weeks before a presidential election, raising doubts as to whether their votes will ultimately be counted," Marrero said.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/21/polit...dny/index.html
More Democrats than Republicans vote by mail. This is why Donald Trump does not want mail-in votes counted. He wants the Supreme Court to declare him the winner of the election on November 3 and disregard all the mail-in votes that are not yet counted. Trump does not care about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, federal election laws or states' rights. He will do anything to win re-election. Our nation can not survive another four years of Donald Trump.
Trump: 'We’re counting' on federal courts to declare election night winner
Trump's push to have the election called on November 3 would disregard multiple states’ rules that allow ballots to be counted after election night.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump...b6de79b676be27
The deceitful, dishonest Trump campaign is at it again. There is no limit to the depths Donald Trump and his campaign workers will sink to.
Fact check: Trump campaign posts another dishonestly
snipped Biden quote to make him sound confused
CNN, Sep 21 2020 7:05 PM ET
There is a pattern: President Donald Trump's campaign and its allies keep dishonestly snipping, editing or describing video clips of former Vice President Joe Biden to try to make the Democratic presidential nominee seem confused or senile. They did it again today. The Trump campaign posted an eight-second video on Facebook that it titled "Joe Biden completely botches the Pledge of Allegiance." It was the same clip that was tweeted on Monday, with the same caption, by Republican National Committee rapid response director Steve Guest; Guest's tweet generated more than 13,500 retweets, at least 1.5 million video views and numerous comments questioning Biden's mental acuity.
The clip shows Biden saying this: "I pledge allegiance to the United States of America. One nation, indivisible, under God. For real." If that was indeed Biden's attempt to recite the entire 31-word Pledge of Allegiance, it would indeed be wrong. But it wasn't. Biden was not trying to recite the entire Pledge of Allegiance when he said these words. He was referring, more than 22 minutes into a campaign speech, to particular phrases in the pledge – to make a point about how he would not divide the country between "red states" and "blue states" as Trump does.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/22/polit...nce/index.html
Biden has gotten the endorsement of another prominent Republican.
Cindy McCain endorses Joe Biden
The endorsement follows McCain's appearance in a video about Biden's
relationship with her late husband at the Democratic National Convention.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/22/polit...rse/index.html
Donald Trump, who is doing everything he can to rig the 2020 Presidential election in his favor, is accusing Democrats of "pulling a scam." He did not go into detail. Well, he'd better hurry and get another pro-Trump loyalist on the Supreme Court! He needs at least five Justices who are willing to disregard the will of the people and appoint him to another four-year term. The Supreme Court, same as the Department of Justice and the Postal Service, must serve Donald Trump and him alone.
Trump says he thinks 2020 election will end up at Supreme Court
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...KCN26E3CA?il=0
FiveThirtyEight.com's latest average of national Presidential polls shows Biden leading Trump 50.4% to 43.2% – but Trump could still win in the 18th-century relic known as the Electoral College, which on five occasions has awarded the Presidency to a candidate who lost the popular vote. Our nation can not survive another four years of Donald Trump.
More than 200 retired generals, admirals endorse
Biden, including some who served under Trump
"Our allies no longer trust or respect us and our enemies no longer fear
us," the former officers and officials wrote in a letter released today.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...e-who-n1240842
Republicans are notorious for "dirty tricks" – and the dirty tricks are reaching a new low in September 2020. Republicans want the reign of King Donald the First extended by another four years and they will resort to anything and everything in order to achieve their goal.
How Republicans in key states are preparing to run out the clock on the election
CNN, Sep 24 2020 7:30 PM ET
President Donald Trump's refusal to commit to a peaceful presidential transition comes as Republicans across the country are taking concrete steps that threaten to undermine the integrity of the election, particularly in key battleground states. Trump's comments about the transition were only the latest instance where he's actively sought to sow doubt into the legitimacy of the election. But beyond Trump's rhetoric, his campaign and Republicans at the state and local level are moving to make it more difficult for voters to cast a ballot, more difficult for states to count votes and more likely that tallies will be challenged in the courts – with a particular focus on mail-in voting, which is being dramatically scaled up this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Those efforts, along with Trump's repeated baseless claims that the election will be rigged, threaten to eat away at the public's confidence in the outcome, regardless of whether Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden is declared the winner. They come amid a contentious fight over filling the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in a situation where Trump could be picking the person who decides his electoral fate.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/24/polit...unt/index.html
A new USC/Dornsife poll of 5,377 likely voters shows Biden leading Trump 52% to 42%. FiveThirtyEight.com's latest average of national Presidential polls has Biden leading Trump 50.3% to 43.2%. Thirty-nine days till election day.
Wall Street is shunning Trump. Campaign donations to Biden are five times larger.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/25/busin...ons/index.html
The orange-skinned parrot has been squawking continuously about voter fraud. He never presents any evidence. That is because there has never been any widespread voter fraud. Testifying under oath today before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, the FBI director – a Trump apointee – said there has never been "any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort." Does Donald Trump believe him? Of course not! Donald lives in Trumpworld, the topsy-turvy land of delusions where down is up, wrong is right, bad is good and millions of illegal votes are cast in every election.
FBI director Christopher Wray just totally shut down Donald Trump's vote-fraud conspiracy
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/25/polit...aud/index.html
Because a far greater number of Democrats than Republicans use vote-by-mail, Republicans are doing everything they can to restrict vote-by-mail so they can rig the election in Donald Trump's favor. They have no shame, no ethics and no morals. All that matters to them is extending King Donald's reign by four years.
Mail-in voting rules still up in the air as Republicans appeal election decisions
Fewer than 40 days are left in the election but Democrats, Republicans and voting rights advocates are still fighting over election rules in the courts.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mail-...b64deddeedbb5a
The obvious analogy here is rats deserting a sinking ship.
Analysis: There's a historic insurrection against Donald Trump happening within the GOP
Chris Cillizza, Sep 28 2020 12:07 PM ET
There's a revolution happening within the GOP right under our noses. The latest sign came Sunday, when former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge penned an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer making clear his intent to vote for former Vice President Joe Biden over President Donald Trump in November. "He lacks the empathy, integrity, intellect and maturity to lead," Ridge, who also served as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in the Bush administration, wrote of Trump.
Ridge joins fellow Bush Cabinet secretaries Christine Todd Whitman, Ann Veneman, Carlos Gutierrez and Colin Powell as Biden endorsers. Ray LaHood, a former Republican Congressman from Illinois, and Chuck Hagel, the former Nebraska Republican Senator, both of whom served in the Obama Cabinet, have also backed Biden. Many other prominent GOP elected officials, including former Ohio Governor John Kasich, former California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, 2016 Presidential candidate Carly Fiorina and former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, are on record as either planning to vote for Biden or leaning in that direction. More than 70 national security officials from various Republican administrations are backing Biden, as are more than 150 alums of the George W. Bush White House.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/28/polit...man/index.html
At the first Trump-Biden debate, Trump chose to be a bully and a loudmouth, spewing lies and accusations and constantly interrupting Biden and moderator Chris Wallace. At one point, Wallace asked Trump if he would like to switch places with him.
Republicans aren't happy with Trump's debate performance
"I think he misspoke. I think he should correct it," South Carolina Senator
Tim Scott said of the President’s refusal to condemn white supremacists.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump...b66377b27c16d6
Biden campaign claims record fundraising after fiery first debate with Trump
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-b...b6374c558835fd
Weird Al Yankovic has outdone himself. In his new video, We're All Doomed, he is moderating the Trump-Biden debate and clips of Trump and Biden have been edited so they appear to be singing their answers. This is hilarious!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un9x-DjTMT0
The dirty tricks of the Trump campaign just keep getting dirtier and dirtier.
Fact check: Trump campaign runs Facebook ads featuring fake image of Biden wearing earpiece
CNN, Oct 2 2020 8:18 PM
President Donald Trump's campaign has been serially dishonest on social media, repeatedly using altered or deceptively clipped videos and images to try to make opponent Joe Biden appear senile. The Trump campaign is now running yet another series of inaccurate ads. Trump allies baselessly hinted before Tuesday's Presidential debate that Biden was seeking to use an earpiece on stage, presumably to get real-time instructions from advisers. Biden did not wear an earpiece and there is no evidence he ever sought to wear one. But the Trump campaign nonetheless launched a series of still-image Facebook ads that purport to show a photo of Biden wearing an Apple-style white earpiece in his right ear. The image of Biden wearing an earpiece is not authentic. The image was manipulated to add the earpiece to a real photo that shows Biden without an earpiece.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/02/polit...ece/index.html
Trump's senior campaign adviser Jason Miller told ABC's George Stephanopoulos today that Trump takes the CDC's coronavirus health guidelines "very seriously." Umm....no, he doesn't. Miller also said Joe Biden "too often has used the mask as a prop. He could be 20, 30 feet away from the nearest person and still have the mask on." And, Jason, your point is.....? Before you answer, keep in mind that Trump has COVID-19 and Biden does not.
Biden leads by 10 points as majority of Americans say Trump could have avoided coronavirus: Reuters/Ipsos poll
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN26P0DB
"Okay, look, it was no big deal that I got COVID-19, okay? Hey, I left the hospital and rode around with a mask on to show everyone how strong I am. When I got back to the White House, I took off my mask to show everyone how strong I am. I am a strong President, okay? The strongest in history, if you want to know the truth. Voters should not be turning against me, okay? I deserve four more years. Maybe even eight or twelve."
Analysis: Donald Trump is losing by 16 in a new CNN poll. And that's not the worst news.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/06/polit...oll/index.html
Analysis: How Trump's losing among seniors at a historic rate
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/06/polit...ote/index.html
FiveThirtyEight.com's latest average of national Presidential polls shows Biden leading Trump 51.7% to 42.2%. Biden is leading by 9.8% in New Hampshire, 8.8% in Minnesota, 7.7% in Michigan, 6.9% in both Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, 4.6% in Florida, 4.4% in Arizona and 2.5% in North Carolina. Those states are crucial to Biden's chances of winning the White House.
Biden crosses 270 threshold in CNN's Electoral College outlook for first time
CNN, Oct 7 2020 7:03 PM
Joe Biden is surging in the battle for the White House with less than four weeks to go until Election Day. In our latest Electoral College outlook, the Democratic Presidential nominee crosses the 270 threshold for the first time this year. If you add up the states that are currently rated as solidly in his camp (203 electoral votes) and those leaning in his direction (87 electoral votes), it brings his total to 290 electoral votes.
As President Donald Trump remains infected with coronavirus and absent from the campaign trail, his campaign finds itself in its worst political position since the start of the campaign season. The President had a disastrous debate performance last week and his response to contracting COVID-19 was to tell the country not to worry about it and to demonstrate a brazen lack of leadership by removing his mask on a White House balcony overlooking the South Lawn for all the world to see – precisely the move that nearly every scientist and expert says goes against promoting the best weapon we currently have to combat the virus.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/07/polit...ump/index.html
Perhaps the fly landed on Pence's head because Pence is so full of.....no, no, I won't say it. :D
The Biden campaign started selling fly swatters right after the debate. They've already sold out.
CNN, Oct 8 2020 3:40 PM ET
The Biden campaign didn't miss a beat trying to capitalize on the, um, buzz of the vice presidential debate. Within minutes of the debate wrapping up Wednesday, the Biden campaign tweeted a photo of Joe Biden with a fly swatter and a caption that said, "Pitch in $5 to help this campaign fly." In case you missed it: A fly very noticeably landed on Vice President Mike Pence's stiffly coiffed head as he debated Senator Kamala Harris. The fly lingered and the internet couldn't stop talking about it. Two hours later, the Biden campaign website was peddling $10 "Truth Over Flies" swatters. Within a few hours more, the nearly 35,000 swatters had sold out.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/busin...rnd/index.html
This is a first! Donald Trump is actually saying no to a chance to be seen on television by millions of people!
Commission cancels second debate between Trump and Biden
CNN, Oct 9 2020 7:01 PM ET
The Commission on Presidential Debates today canceled the second debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden after the President declined to do a virtual debate despite concerns over his Covid-19 diagnosis. The cancellation is the culmination of a furious 48-hour back-and-forth between the commission and both campaigns and means what would have been the third debate in Nashville on October 22 will likely be the final meeting between the two candidates.
"It is now apparent there will be no debate on October 15 and the CPD will turn its attention to preparations for the final Presidential debate scheduled for October 22," the commission said in a statement. The commission, with the backing of their health advisers, announced on Thursday morning that – because Trump tested positive for the coronavirus – the debate that was scheduled for Miami would be held virtually, with the two candidates appearing from remote locations. Trump swiftly rejected that plan, saying he would not show up.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/09/polit...led/index.html