2020 Elections

Cash-Strapped Trump Camp Pulls Ads Out OF Florida

Bloomberg News reports: President Donald Trump’s campaign has all but pulled its advertising out of Florida, as it stakes its relatively small bank account on the industrial northern states that carried him to victory in 2016. Since the beginning of the fall campaign on Labor Day, Trump has cut $24 million from his national ad budget, while former Vice President …

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NYT/Siena Poll: Biden +6 Over Trump In Nevada

The New York Times reports: Joseph R. Biden Jr. has a steady lead over President Trump in Nevada, a state that has been shading blue in recent elections but that Mr. Trump is hoping to flip, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll released on Tuesday. Mr. Biden, the Democratic nominee, leads Mr. Trump 49 percent to 43 percent …

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Bloomberg Funds $15M Last Minute Ads In TX, OH

The Texas Tribune reports: Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is funding a last-minute ad blitz on behalf of Joe Biden in Texas and Ohio, providing a boost to the former vice president as polls and a flutter of late campaign activity continue to show that the Lone Star State might be in play. A Bloomberg spokesperson told The Texas Tribune on Tuesday …

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Texas Gov To Deploy 1000 Troops Ahead Of Election

The San Antonio Express-News reports: The Texas Army National Guard said Monday it had been ordered to dispatch 1,000 troops to five major cities around the state in conjunction with the Nov. 3 election, including San Antonio. The guard in recent weeks had told the San Antonio Express-News that its commander, Maj. Gen. Tracy Norris, had been asked to draft …

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Politico: Wall Street Is Betting On A Blue Wave

Politico reports: Traders in recent weeks have been piling into bets that a “blue wave” election, in which Democrats also seize the Senate, will produce an economy-juicing blast of fresh fiscal stimulus of $3 trillion or more that carries the U.S. past the coronavirus crisis and into a more normal environment for markets. Far from panicking at the prospect of …

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SCOTUS Limits Counting Of Wisconsin Mail-In Ballots

NBC News reports: Wisconsin cannot count mail ballots that arrive well after the polls close under an order issued late Monday by the Supreme Court, a defeat for Democrats in a battleground state. By a vote of 5-3, the justices declined to lift a lower court ruling preventing the state from counting mail ballots that arrive as much as six …

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POLL: Biden +4 In FL, Biden +3 In NC, Biden +3 In AZ

Reuters reports: Democratic presidential challenger Joe Biden led President Donald Trump by a solid margin in Wisconsin and maintained a narrower advantage in Pennsylvania with just over a week until Election Day, Reuters/Ipsos opinion polls showed on Monday. Reuters/Ipsos is polling likely voters in six states – Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, Florida and Arizona – that will play critical …

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MN GOP Senate Candidate Rushed To ER For Surgery

CNBC reports: Minnesota Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jason Lewis was rushed into emergency surgery Monday for a severe internal hernia, just eight days before the election, his campaign announced. The condition is life-threatening if not treated quickly, the campaign said in a statement. Lewis, a one-term former congressman best known to Minnesota voters from his days as a conservative talk …

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POLL: Biden +10 In WI, Biden +9 In MI, Biden +8 In PA

The Hill reports: A new poll finds Joe Biden stretching his lead over President Trump in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania as late-breaking undecided voters say they intend to back the Democratic presidential nominee. The latest survey of likely voters in the three former “blue wall” states from the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison finds Biden nearly doubling …

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60M+ Early Votes So Far, TX Near 2016 Total Turnout

CNN reports: More than 60 million pre-election votes have been cast, and 33 states have surpassed their pre-election vote totals from 2016, according to data from CNN, Edison Research and Catalist. Twelve of CNN’s most competitively ranked states are among these states that have exceeded their total 2016 pre-election ballots cast. They include: Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New …

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Politico: Voter Suppression Is Backfiring In Georgia

Politico reports: Voters interviewed by POLITICO said anger over perceived voter suppression tactics is fueling their eagerness to cast early ballots. And indeed, Georgians are voting in numbers never seen before in the state’s history. Since Oct. 12, the first day of early voting, a staggering 2.7 million voters have cast a ballot — a nearly 110 percent increase from …

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Harris To Campaign In TX, Trump Reportedly Will Not

The Texas Tribune reports: Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s running mate and the California U.S. senator, will be visiting Texas on Friday, according to an email Biden’s campaign sent to Democratic lawmakers in Texas on Sunday. “Allow me to provide as a courtesy, the below in person travel notification for Sen. Kamala Harris which will be publicly released momentarily,” the email …

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Trump To Donors: Holding Senate Will Be “Very Tough” And I Don’t Even Want To Help Some GOP Senators

The Washington Post reports: President Trump privately told donors this past week that it will be “very tough” for Republicans to keep control of the Senate in the upcoming election because some of the party’s senators are candidates he cannot support. “I think the Senate is tough actually. The Senate is very tough,” Trump said at a fundraiser Thursday at …

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Politico: Trump Team Mired In Paranoia And Blaming

Politico reports: President Donald Trump’s top advisers have plunged into a bitter round of finger-pointing and blame-shifting ahead of an increasingly likely defeat. Accusations are flying in all directions and about all manner of topics — from allegedly questionable spending decisions by former campaign manager Brad Parscale, to how White House chief of staff Mark Meadows handled Trump’s hospitalization for …

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Trump Casts Early In-Person Vote In West Palm Beach

The Palm Beach Post reports: President Donald Trump is casting his vote this morning at the Palm Beach County main library on Summit Boulevard. It marks the first time an incumbent president votes, in-person, in Florida. Trump did vote in both the March 17 presidential primary and the Aug. 18 general primary, but those ballots were sent as absentee votes. …

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MT Gov. Steve Bullock Trails By 3 Pts In US Senate Race

The New York Times reports: Republicans hold a narrow lead up and down the ballot in Montana, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll Friday, as Democrats remain highly competitive in a state President Trump won by 20 points in 2016. Over all, Mr. Trump leads Joe Biden by six points, 49 percent to 43 percent, echoing favorable results …

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New Poll Shows Texas Holding At “Virtual Dead Heat”

The San Antonio Express reports: A new poll shows Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is holding a narrow lead over President Trump in Texas. According to the survey conducted by Morning Consult, 48 percent of likely voters say they plan to vote for Biden, while 47 percent are for Trump. The Morning Consult survey was conducted from October 11 to …

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Joe Biden +7 Over Trump In New Pennsylvania Poll

Just in from Muhlenberg College Polling: As Election Day 2020 draws closer, the latest Muhlenberg College/Morning Call poll finds former Vice President Joe Biden holding a 7-point lead (51%-44%) over President Donald Trump among likely Pennsylvania voters. As President Trump seeks to repeat his 2016 victory in Pennsylvania, he is struggling to overcome the belief among a majority (51%) of …

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Dems Open Large Early Voting Lead In Swing States

Politico reports: Democrats have opened up a yawning gap in early voting over Republicans in six of the most crucial battleground states — but that only begins to tell the story of their advantage heading into Election Day. In a more worrisome sign for Republicans, Democrats are also turning out more low-frequency and newly registered voters than the GOP, according …

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47+ Million: Early Voting Tally Surpasses 2016 Total

Reuters reports: U.S. voters have cast more than 47 million votes for the Nov. 3 presidential election, eclipsing total early voting from the 2016 election with 12 days to go, according to data compiled by the U.S. Elections Project. Some 47.5 million Americans have turned in ballots, roughly eight times the number of early votes cast at about same point …

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