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The nation appears on track to repudiate Trump but not Trumpism, as evidenced by the number of Republicans who are holding on to their seats. Faced these last few weeks with the burgeoning reality that their candidate could lose the presidency, it seems Republicans have fallen in line to retain power within the Senate, which would, barring the results of a couple of valuable runoff elections in the state of Georgia come January, preserve the legitimacy of a hardline conservative court.
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge (R-PA) said there is “absolutely no reason to be anything but confident… Regardless of what the President might say, and I’d say his remark was even to some extent unAmerican because he tried to disenfranchise millions of voters.”
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf (D) says he’ll do “everything in my power” to ensure his state has an election that is free and fair.
“I will do everything within my power to ensure that the results are fair and that every vote is counted. Pennsylvania will have a fair election,” he said.
John Kruzel, a legal affairs reporter with The Hill, reports that the United States Postal Service (USPS) data appears to show that the organization failed to deliver mail ballots from voters nationwide.
President Donald Trump took to Twitter to attack mail-in votes, which are still being counted and account for delays in election night results.
“How come every time they count Mail-In ballot dumps they are so devastating in their percentage and power of destruction?” the president wrote.
This is an election year unlike any other in United States history. There has been an unprecedented amount of early voting and mail in ballots. Over 100 million people voted before election day even got here.
Frank Luntz, a GOP pollster and political strategist, says a Joe Biden presidency depends on him winning just one of a trio of key states. He says North Carolina, Florida, and Ohio to win the election.
President Donald Trump claimed that a story about a caravan of his supporters that harassed and reportedly attempted to run a Biden campaign bus off a road in Texas is false, once again hitting back at the news that the FBI is investigating the incident.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany appeared on “Fox and Friends” and claimed “Democrat cities” across the country will “send The Left out to attack you” if “you don’t choose The Left’s chosen candidate,” namely Joe Biden.
President Donald Trump claimed Nebraska, Michigan, Minnesota, and Ohio “will bounce back Bigger and Better than ever before” if he remains in office.
“Early Vote polls close today in these Great States and we need YOU to get out and VOTE!” Trump wrote. “Together, we’ll MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!”
One of the most closely watched states on election night is sure to be Arizona. The state has not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1952. Polls, however, are showing that Joe Biden has a very good chance at garnering its 11 electoral votes in 2020.
The Trump campaign accused Minnesota officials of stifling free speech after the state ordered that they cap attendance at 250 people amid concern that a larger event would spread the coronavirus.
“The announcement comes as Trump’s campaign sought to shift the venue to a nearby business but ultimately reversed course and moved ahead with the rally at the airport,” ABC News reports.
There are many incumbent Republican senators who are considered good bets to lose their seats this year. That includes Maine’s Susan Collins, Arizona’s Martha McSally and Colorado’s Cory Gardner.
According to The Associated Press, the Wisconsin Republican Party claims hackers stole $2.3 million from an account whose funds were being used in President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign. The
Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), in an op-ed for Fox News, claimed Democrats “ignore reality” when they focus on Russian interference in American elections.
“Ever since the Democratic National Committee server was hacked during the 2016 election campaign, ‘Russian disinformation and interference’ has been the shiny object that Democrats and the mainstream media have used to bamboozle the American people,” Johnson writes. “Because Russia is believed to have exposed the contents of the DNC server, Americans were supposed to focus on the existential threat that ‘Russian election interference’ posed to America — and ignore the anti-Catholic emails and other vile content written by top Democratic operatives and exposed in the incident.”
Ranked-choice voting will likely decide Maine’s 2020 Senate race between Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon (D) and Senator Susan Collins (R), according to a new poll released today by Colby College that shows the two candidates “nearly in a dead heat.”
“Covid, Covid, Covid is the unified chant of the Fake News Lamestream Media,” President Donald Trump wrote earlier today, recycling his refrain that the media is weaponizing the coronavirus pandemic to hurt his chances at being re-elected.
Joe Biden’s campaign has debuted a duo of closing message ads that will air for the week leading up to the general election on November 3. All of them are meant to display his commitment to the American people, particularly as they grapple with the severity of a pandemic that has crippled the economy and endangered the financial and emotional well-being of millions of families.
A group of 76 United States mayors has endorsed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in an open letter that also calls out President Donald Trump and members of Congress for delaying vital Covid-19 relief for small businesses as the pandemic continues to wreak a harsh economic toll on the lives of average Americans.
The Trump campaign is pressed for cash with November’s general election mere days away. The Biden campaign started October with $177 million in the bank. The Trump campaign, comparatively, trails behind with just $63.1 million in the home stretch.