President Donald Trump suggested early Monday morning that Dr. Anthony Fauci, a prominent member of the White House’s COVID-19 task force, will be on the chopping block after Election Day on Tuesday.
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President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden are making their final campaign pushes with just over 50 hours until polls begin to close. The President is campaigning in a slew of battleground states today — Michigan, Iowa, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida — while former Vice President Joe Biden focuses in on Pennsylvania.
In an appearance on ABC News, Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller implied that counting all of the votes cast in this election would amount to “theft” — a point that observers on both sides of the aisle said was garbage. In Texas, a Republican attempt to throw out more than 100,000 votes cast at drive-through polling places in Harris County was rejected — though another battle is ongoing in federal court.
Speaking on Face The Nation this morning, RNC chair Ronna McDaniel said she hadn’t seen a video of a collision that occurred when a pro-Trump caravan surrounded a Biden campaign bus. The President, for his part, celebrated the encounter, tweeting “I LOVE TEXAS!”
A slew of new polls over the weekend gives new insight on a race in which over 91 million Americans have already voted. A new Emerson poll gives Trump a one-point lead in Iowa, much more in line with the bulk of polls than a seven-point Selzer poll on Saturday that gave Democrats the vapors. Two new polls show Florida as a true tossup, each giving a different candidate a small lead, and capture Biden retaining his mid-single digit lead in Pennsylvania. The rest of the info in the new polls is pretty much good for Biden: sizable lead in Wisconsin, solid leads in Arizona and Michigan, even a one-point lead in Ohio.
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President Donald Trump on Sunday delivered a dark closing message to supporters in multiple states: A vote for Joe Biden is a vote for scary non-white people and the Chinese government taking control of your country.
You’re probably tense. I am too. We’ve noted in our reporting the cloud of tension that appears to be resting over the whole country as we move to within 48 hours of election day. Some of this is natural. A national election is high stakes. In 2020 the stakes feel and are uncommonly high. That puts everyone on edge.
But these sources of anxiety and tension don’t really make for more than a small portion of what people are feeling. The cloud of tension and menace hanging over the country stems from the specific fact that the President and his party are making an all out press to limit voting, slow vote counting and now toss out literally hundreds of thousands of bonafide, legally cast votes. On top of this, related to this, the President has quite intentionally left open the possibility that he won’t accept defeat but will try to stay in office – likely with the connivance of the corrupt Supreme Court, but perhaps in some unknown way only he knows.
President Trump’s personal lawyer has been on various conspiracy tears for months. His initial fever-swamp stoking about Hunter Biden backfired dramatically, which, in his brain, is apparently just cause to double down.
Politicians and election observers flamed Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller on Sunday for saying that counting all of the votes cast in the presidential election would amount to an attempt to “steal” the election by Democrats.
A day after warning that people had best “use a mask to cover your eyes and ears” if they can’t handle the “truth” contained in his interview with RT, White House adviser Scott Atlas is now claiming that he didn’t know the Russian propaganda outlet is a registered foreign agent.
From TPM Reader NL …
I think there is a small subset of the Democratic universe that appreciates that court reform is vital to sustaining small-d democracy over the near term given the very unhidden corruption of the federal judiciary.
However, as a party, I worry that a loser’s mentality is baked into how we operate. My spouse is a former government attorney with connections through the DC legal community. You cannot imagine how many creative ideas for court reform I have had passed on to me. The one defect with all these proposals is a desire to find the “fair” solution now. This completely mistakes how power works. Without a show of force that establishes that Democrats finally have the intestinal fortitude to do what the moment demands, there is no reason for anyone (let alone McConnell) to take them seriously. Is there a way to break through this academic approach to change? I have no idea. I would not normally care, except that this subset of Democrats manages to be extraordinarily well-connected.
Not only has President Donald Trump refused to condemn his supporters who swarmed a Biden campaign bus on the highway as it passed through San Antonio, but he retweeted a video of the episode with a giddy “I LOVE TEXAS!”
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The White House continued its efforts to discredit Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of its own coronavirus task force, as the nation’s top infectious disease expert has become notably more outspoken about the Trump administration’s missteps in its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic just days before Election Day. Continue reading “WH Attacks Fauci For Refuting Trump’s False COVID-19 Claims As Election Looms”
