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But will there be balconies available for Covita? Trump is eager to increase his schedule to include multiple rallies a day, and his campaign thinks that the Barrett hearing will provide an enthusiasm boost with key groups, senior aides told reporters Monday. In a conference call held ahead of Trump’s return to the campaign trail after his coronavirus diagnosis, senior …

Reuters reports: President Trump will hold a campaign rally on Monday in Florida, his first time hitting the campaign trail since testing positive for COVID-19. The announcement comes despite the fact that the White House has yet to say whether Trump is still infectious or when he last tested negative. The president will gather in Sanford, Fla., with supporters on …

The Duluth News Tribune reports: Minnesota’s current COVID-19 surge shows no signs of slowing. The Health Department on Friday, Oct. 9, reported another 1,401 newly confirmed cases and 14 more deaths. Hospitalization rates continue to trend upward. They follow a stretch of more than a week when average new daily case counts topped 1,000. The trend line of active COVID-19 …

Bloomberg News reports: President Donald Trump will remain at the White House this weekend, people familiar with the matter said, after he said he wanted to hold rallies in Florida and Pennsylvania despite questions over the stage of his recovery from Covid-19. Trump, who told Fox’s Sean Hannity late Thursday that he wanted to hold rallies Saturday and Sunday, won’t …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump, who is still recovering from Covid-19, has suggested he might organize a rally in Florida on Saturday, while continuing to ignore questions on whether he has yet tested negative for the disease. On Thursday night, Trump said: “I think I’m going to try doing a rally on Saturday night if we can, if we have …

Mediaite reports: All in-person events featuring President Donald Trump — who announced he had contracted the coronavirus early Friday morning — will be made virtual or postponed, his campaign announced Friday. “All previously announced campaign events involving the President’s participation are in the process of being moved to virtual events or are being temporarily postponed. In addition, previously announced events …

McClatchy reports: Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien on Friday advised staff who were exposed to anyone who tested positive for the coronavirus to self-quarantine immediately. Anyone else without symptoms does not need to do so at this time, he wrote in an all-staff email that McClatchy obtained. “In consultation with the White House Medical Unit and our own medical consultants, …

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump appears to have canceled a planned appearance in western Wisconsin amid calls from the city’s mayor and the state’s governor, both Democrats, that he not hold a rally amid a surge in coronavirus cases. “We have received word that Air Force One is not coming to La Crosse on Saturday, so we are …

Reuters reports: New cases of COVID-19 rose in 27 out of 50 U.S. states in September compared with August, led by an increase of 111% in Wisconsin, according to a Reuters analysis. The Midwest states of North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin all saw cases surge more than 50% month-over-month, as did Montana, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming. Illinois had …

The Washington Post reports: Trump has scheduled large campaign rallies this weekend in Wisconsin despite recommendations from the White House Coronavirus Task Force that call for increasing social distancing in the state “to the maximal degree possible.” The task force has further flagged La Crosse and Green Bay, the metropolitan areas where Trump plans to gather thousands of supporters Saturday, …

The New York Times reports: When news broke on Friday that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died, President Trump was just five minutes into a campaign rally in Minnesota and aides opted not to pass word to him onstage. If he announced the death of the liberal justice from the lectern, they feared the crowd would cheer. But cheers that …

NBC News reports: White House senior adviser Jared Kushner responded to tapes of President Donald Trump downplaying the threat of the coronavirus in March by saying Trump was “very forthcoming with the American people” about the dangers of the illness. Kushner also addressed concerns over a large indoor Trump rally in Las Vegas on Sunday in which people defied the …

USA Today reports: Kid Rock will join Donald Trump Jr. in an event to promote the president’s reelection campaign Monday. The two will also be joined by Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump Jr.’s girlfriend who serves as President Donald Trump’s senior adviser. The event will take place at Bumpers Landing Boat Club in Harrison Township at 7 p.m. This will be the …

Reuters reports: In open defiance of state regulations and his own administration’s pandemic health guidelines, President Donald Trump hosted his first indoor rally since June, telling a packed, nearly mask-less Nevada crowd that the nation was “making the last turn” in defeating the virus. Eager to project a sense of normalcy in imagery, Trump soaked up the raucous cheers inside …

Mediaite reports: CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta asked attendees at Trump’s Michigan rally why they weren’t wearing coronavirus masks, and the responses he got were stunning. “Sir, why are you not wearing a mask?” Acosta asked one man, who shot back “Because there’s no COVID. It’s a fake pandemic. Created to destroy the United States of America.” “Does it …

CBS News reports: Even after privately acknowledging that COVID-19 was a virus transmitted through the air in early February, President Trump participated in several campaign rallies in indoor venues before states began to shut down in early March to mitigate the spread of the virus, according to revelations from journalist Bob Woodward’s upcoming book. “It goes through air, Bob. That’s …

Mediaite reports: A man approached a local news reporter outside President Donald Trump’s New Hampshire rally and launched into an angry tirade that included telling him “You mother fuckers are gonna pay, someone is gonna bomb you, might even be tonight.” Prior to the rally in Manchester, a man approached News 7 Boston’s Alex DiPrato, in full view of the …

Axios reports: President Trump “has a deal on his desk,” whereby Microsoft would lead an acquisition of 100% of the U.S. operations of TikTok, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. U.S. presidents don’t typically have approval or veto power over merger agreements. But this situation is different because of the involvement of the Committee on Foreign Investment in …

Via press release from TikTok: 100 million Americans come to TikTok for entertainment and connection, especially during the pandemic. We’ve hired nearly 1,000 people to our US team this year alone, and are proud to be hiring another 10,000 employees into great paying jobs across the US. Our $1 billion creator fund supports US creators who are building livelihoods from …

CNBC reports: President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters he will act as soon as Saturday to ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok from the United States. Trump made the comments while chatting with reporters on Air Force One during the flight back to Washington from Florida. “As far as TikTok is concerned we’re banning them from the United States,” Trump …