Tag Archives: 2020 elections

Forecaster Moves FL From Toss Up To Lean Democrat

From the nonpartisan Cook Political Report: Given its track record in presidential campaigns over the last 20 years, it’s hard to think of Florida as anything other than a Toss Up. Since 2000, the winner of the state has never carried it by more than 5 points. In fact, in four of the last five presidential elections, the winner squeaked …

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Politico Warns Election Day Snafus Could Be Disastrous

Politico reports: Anxious Democrats are already fretting about nightmare scenarios in which Trump uses emergency powers to cancel the election, calls in the military to “oversee” voting, or even refuses to vacate the White House. But conversations with more than a dozen campaign strategists, security officials and election administrators make clear that the most likely picture this fall is something …

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ABC: Biden At 279 Electoral College Votes, 270 To Win

ABC News reports: Former Vice President Joe Biden holds a discernible — though not insurmountable — Electoral College advantage over President Donald Trump, with multiple paths to the presidency but little margin for error, according to ABC News’ initial ratings for the 2020 general election. With this weekend marking 100 days to Election Day, ABC’s race ratings place 279 electoral …

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New Fox Polls: Biden +11 In PA, +13 In MN, +9 In MI

Fox News reports: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump in the battleground states of Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania, according to Fox News statewide registered voter surveys. Biden benefits from strong support among women, nonwhite voters, and those living in suburban areas, while Trump suffers from a lackluster performance among men and White voters. In each state’s head-to-head …

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Lincoln Project Ad Recaps Trump’s Many COVID Lies

Via press release from the Lincoln Project: The Lincoln Project today released a new video, “Failure,” highlighting the last several months’ worth of President Trump’s often erratic and erroneous comments on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As new daily cases continue to rise to double what they were in April, President Trump offered little guidance and support during his Tuesday briefing. …

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Joe Biden +6 Over Trump In New Florida Poll

Florida Politics reports: A new survey shows Joe Biden’s support on the rise in the Sunshine State. If the presidential election were held today, 50% of Florida voters would pick Biden and 44% would vote for Donald Trump, according to fresh numbers from St. Pete Polls. Another 2% of voters plan to vote for a third-party candidate while 3% remain …

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Joe Biden Publicly Calls Trump “Racist” For First Time

The Washington Post reports: Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, on Wednesday called President Trump the country’s first racist to be elected to the White House. The former vice president’s blunt assessment came during a virtual town hall organized by the Service Employees International Union after a health-care worker expressed concern that Trump continues to blame Asians for the …

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Reuters: Biden +8, Big Advantage Among Undecided

Reuters reports: Democratic candidate Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by 8 percentage points in support among registered voters, and the former vice president appears to have a significant advantage among voters who are undecided, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll. Reuters/Ipsos polling in 2016 found that support was evenly split that summer between Trump and then Democratic nominee Hillary …

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Biden Puts Kremlin On Notice Over Election Meddling

Joe Biden writes for Medium: In spite of President Trump’s failure to act, America’s adversaries must not misjudge the resolve of the American people to counter every effort by a foreign power to interfere in our democracy, whether by hacking voting systems and databases, laundering money into our political system, systematically spreading disinformation, or trying to sow doubt about the …

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Biden +8 Over Trump In New Fox News National Poll

Fox News reports: Coronavirus infected the election. The virus is the top issue to voters, over half of them disapprove of how Trump’s handling it, and they increasingly trust Joe Biden to do a better job on it. That keeps Biden ahead in the presidential race, according to a Fox News survey of registered voters. Biden leads by 8 points …

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ABC/WaPo Poll: Biden +15 Among Registered Voters

The Washington Post reports: President Trump faces a significant challenge in his bid to win reelection in November, with former vice president Joe Biden holding a double-digit lead nationally and the president’s approval ratings crumbling amid a spreading coronavirus pandemic and a weakened economy, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. Biden leads Trump 55 percent to 40 percent among …

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Dems Pour Millions Into US Senate Races In Red States

The Associated Press reports: It’s come to this for Republicans straining to defend their Senate majority in November’s elections: They’re air-dropping millions of dollars into races in Alabama, Kentucky and other red states where Donald Trump coasted during his 2016 presidential election triumph. This year, challenged by Trump’s fumbled handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the crippled economy and his racially …

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Biden Cites Intel Briefings He’s Now Getting: Russia And China Are Trying To “Delegitimize Our Electoral Process”

The Washington Post reports: Joe Biden, citing intelligence briefings that he is now receiving, warned Friday night that Russia and China were both actively engaged in trying to sow doubt in the American electoral system. “We know from before and I guarantee you I know now because now I get briefings again,” the presumptive Democratic nominee said during an evening …

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Kanye West Tweets His Face On Mt. Rushmore: “2020”

Fox News reports: Kanye West shared a photo on Twitter that shows his face edited onto Mt. Rushmore amid his ongoing presidential bid. “2020,” he wrote, along the edited image. The tweet comes just one day after the 43-year-old rapper filed a document with the FEC that seemingly confirms he’s moving forward. The filing comes on the heels of reports …

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DNC: Democratic Convention Will Be Entirely Virtual

The New York Times reports: Democratic officials are instructing House and Senate members and party delegates to skip attending their national convention this summer, a sign of the ever-shrinking aspirations for their big campaign event in the face of surging coronavirus cases in the United States. “We have been working closely with state and local public health officials, as well …

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Kanye West Qualifies To Appear On Oklahoma Ballot

The Associated Press reports: Rap superstar Kanye West has qualified to appear on Oklahoma’s presidential ballot, the first state where he met the requirements before the filing deadline. But confusion remains over whether he’s actually running. West filed the necessary paperwork and paid the $35,000 filing Wednesday afternoon, which was the deadline for a spot on the state’s Nov. 3 …

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Hugh Hewitt “Doesn’t Believe” Latest Pennsylvania Poll Because He Grew Up Only “Seven Miles Away” In Ohio

Mediaite reports: During a MSNBC segment on the grim state of polling for President Donald Trump, conservative pundit Hugh Hewitt offered his own highly skeptical assessment of the bad news confronting the president in one key swing state — and his reasoning for this disbelief was downright Palinesque. “On this ‘shy Tory,’ that’s a term we invented when [former UK …

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BREAKING: Trump Replaces His Campaign Manager

The New York Times reports: President Trump is shaking up his re-election team with less than four months until November’s vote, replacing his campaign manager, Brad Parscale, in an acknowledgment of the president’s diminished standing in nearly all public and private polling since the spring. Mr. Parscale, who was named campaign manager unusually early, in February 2018, will step out …

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Biden +11 Over Trump In New WSJ/NBC National Poll

The Wall Street Journal reports: Former Vice President Joe Biden’s lead over President Trump reached double-digits this month as Mr. Trump’s approval rating declined amid widespread disagreement with his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Less than four months before the election, 51% said they would vote for Mr. Biden if the …

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Biden +15 Over Trump In New Quinnipiac National Poll

Will the Trump cult demand another apology? Former Vice President Joe Biden has widened his lead over President Trump to 15 points in a new national Quinnipiac University poll. The poll released Wednesday shows Biden garnering 52 percent of the vote to Trump’s 37 percent. That’s the widest lead for Biden recorded by a Quinnipiac survey to date. A similar …

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