Sunday, November 1: Two days away from election
It is Sunday, November 1 and we are only two days away from the 2020 Election. Over 92 million Americans have already voted early.
Here is a recap of what President Trump and challenger Joe Biden are saying in their final push to win votes.
Trump said Biden wants to “LOCKDOWN” our country for years. He said with him there would be no lockdowns and that the economy would come back.
Trump warned that Biden may want to court pack (add more Supreme Court justices past the traditional nine).
Trump said Biden would ban fracking and mining.
On Friday, a Biden campaign bus traveling on a highway between San Antonio and Austin was surrounded by multiple trucks with large “TRUMP” flags on it. The bus was boxed in and forced to slow down to about 20 mph. A car was sideswiped. Someone in the Biden bus called 911 and law enforcement had to intervene.
President Trump responded to this by tweeting, “I LOVE TEXAS!”
Trump has traveled to multiple battleground states to hold campaign rallies. On Sunday alone, Trump visited Michigan, Iowa, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.
Joe Biden visited Philadelphia today and on Saturday had a rally with Barack Obama in Detroit.
Joe Biden said he believes that climate change is a threat to humanity, but that Trump doesn’t think it even exists.
Biden said he would ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
Biden said Trump has given up on trying to control the virus and that we need a president who believes in science and listens to someone other than himself.
In separate but related news, Dr. Anthony Fauci criticized the Trump administration’s response to the Covid-19 crisis by pointing out the spiking cases nationwide and said we are positioned very poorly because we are approaching the fall and winter season.
The White House said Fauci was playing politics and that it is unacceptable.
A New York Times/Siena poll showed that Biden has a lead over Trump in the battleground states of Florida, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Other polls also show Biden a lead in the same four states.
There is a high potential for a chaotic Election Night because of the enormous amount of mail-in ballots. Some states do not allow the ballots to be processed until Election Day, so they are piling up and there may not be enough time to go through them all in a day, and in some states, it might take a few weeks to count them all. Axios reported that President Trump has said in private that he plans to declare victory early and then his campaign may try a legal challenge to stop states from counting mail-in ballots after election day. That may be their strategy. Generally, more Republicans prefer to wait until Election Day while more Democrats prefer to vote by mail.
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If you feel stressed about Election Day, you’re not the only one. OnePoll surveyed 2,000 people and 55% said they think Election Day 2020 will be the most stress-filled day of their lives.
If you have not yet voted, it may be too late to send a mail-in ballot through the post office — many recommend you to drop it off at a ballot drop-off location. If you are planning to vote in-person on Election Day, you should take the time to check online for your voters registration, to make sure that all is correct, and to make sure that you know where your polling place is.
That’s all for tonight. See you tomorrow and stay with the light.
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