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President Donald Trump made another appeal directly to suburban women voters during his Carson City, Nevada, rally Sunday evening, openly campaigning toward a crucial voting demographic where he has lost ground in the polls.
In the middle of a non-sequitur on water regulations, Trump began to discuss how the regulations affected dishwashers, and in turn, how they affected suburban women.
“Go buy a dishwasher,” Trump said. “I said what’s wrong with this thing? It doesn’t clean the dishes right. The women come up to me, the women who they say don’t like me – they actually do like me a lot.”
“Suburban women, please vote for me,” Trump continued. “I’m saving your house. I’m saving your community. I’m keeping your crime way down.”
The appeal is the latest in a series of explicit and reductive pitches urging suburban women to support his reelection, revealing a misunderstanding of the makeup of suburban women as predominantly White housewives.
On Saturday, Trump asked rhetorically of supporters in Muskegon, Michigan, “Would you like a nice low-income housing project next to your suburban beautiful ranch style house? Generally speaking, no.”
“I saved your suburbs, women,” Trump continued. “Suburban women, you’re supposed to love Trump.”
President Donald Trump criticized former Vice President Joe Biden’s remarks that he’d approve a lockdown if it was recommended by scientists, telling supporters at a rally in Carson City, Nevada, “He’ll listen to the scientists—if I listened totally to the scientists, we would right now (…) would have a country that would be in a massive depression.”
Trump did not mention the recent nationwide spikes in coronavirus cases. Nevada, for example, on Saturday reported the biggest one-day jump since mid-August. State officials also said the positivity rate has been increasing since mid-September.
The White House has maintained, despite evidence to the contrary, that the Trump administration has listened to scientists.
However, Trump has frequently, and publicly, ignored scientific guidance on a number of topics, including social distancing and mask use, culminating in his own Covid-19 diagnosis.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is going to try to vote in person this election, he told CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jonathan LaPook during an interview on “60 Minutes” Sunday night.
“I’m going to try to vote in person. I like the atmosphere of going and voting,” said Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
But for others, Fauci added, “If someone asked me, ‘I’m 75 years old, I have hypertension and I’m a little bit concerned,’ alleviate your anxiety, do an absentee ballot.”
Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris underwent PCR testing for Covid-19 on Sunday and Covid-19 was not detected, according to a Harris aide.
This comes after the campaign halted the California senator’s travel through the weekend after a non-staff flight crew member and Harris’ own communications director, Liz Allen, tested positive for coronavirus.
Harris is expected to resume travel Monday to Florida.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson are hitting back after President Trump told supporters Saturday night to “be careful” because the governor and attorney general are “like, in charge of the ballot stuff.”
Trump, at his campaign rally in Muskegon, Michigan Saturday night said, “Be careful of her and her attorney general because you know they’re like, in charge of the ballot stuff, right? So how the hell do I put my political and our country’s political life in the hands of a pure partisan like that? Right? So you’ve got to watch it. Watch those ballots. Watch what’s going on. You’re more important and law enforcement is watching. Okay, they’re watching.”
Nessel then tweeted, “1) In nearly every state of the union, including Michigan, the Secretary of State is “like in charge of the ballot stuff.” 2) I AM law enforcement. And you can bet our election will be safe and the vote will be protected.”
Benson today tweeted, “Hi, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson here. I’m like, in charge of the ballot stuff. Along with 1600 clerks. We work to ensure that every voter can trust that their vote will count. Judging from the fact that 1.5mil+ have already voted, I’d say we’re doing a good job.”
Read the tweets:
Early in-person voting in Georgia continues to set new records, as Georgians cast ballots during their first weekend of early voting across the state.
As of noon Sunday, there were a total of 1,451,131 ballots cast.
That’s up 152% from 2016 when 578,147 ballots were cast during the same period.
Here’s the latest data from the Georgia Secretary of State on early voting.
President Trump has landed in Santa Ana, California, ahead of a closed-press fundraiser scheduled to take place at a private residence in Newport Beach soon.
Later today, Trump will hold a rally in Nevada.
Campaigning in Durham, North Carolina, today, Joe Biden spoke for about 20 minutes, delivering his generic stump speech at a drive-in style rally.
Introduced by Duke Women’s Basketball Coach Kara Lawson, Biden said that his campaign is both “working hard and competing.”
Noting that he’d spoken with Reps. G. K. Butterfield and David Price, Biden said, “They can tell you we’re doing both: We’re working hard and we’re competing like we never did before because so much is at stake for this nation. The very soul of the nation is at stake. Folks, as my coach used to say in college, it’s go-time. It’s the most important election in our lifetimes.”
Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham — who is running to unseat Sen. Thom Tillis — did not speak, nor did he appear at the event, per the list provided by pool, but Biden did encourage everyone to vote Democrat in down-ballot races.
The Democratic nominee slammed the Supreme Court hearings and the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett.
“In the middle of this pandemic, why do Republicans have the time to hold a hearing of the Supreme Court instead of addressing the significant economic needs of local communities? I’ll tell you why. For real. It’s about wiping Obamacare off the books, that’s what it’s about,” he said.
He implored attendees to get out and make their voices heard as soon as possible. “We got to keep the incredible momentum going. We can’t let up, you can vote early in person until the 31st, but don’t wait.”
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden just took the stage in Durham, North Carolina, at a voter mobilization event. He’s expected to urge North Carolinians to “make their plan to vote early during the state’s in-person early voting period.”
Early Voting began in the Tar Heel State this past Thursday and will go through October 31.
Cars began to file in for the drive-in event earlier this afternoon. The pre-show program included some speeches from organizers and several Biden campaign videos.
President Trump briefly addressed the congregation before leaving the service at the International Church of Las Vegas this morning.
“I go to many churches, and I love going to churches,” Trump said. However, he rarely has gone to church services during his presidency.
He then used the occasion of a church service to campaign for re-election.
President Trump attended service this morning at the International Church of Las Vegas.
Most of the congregation did not wearing masks and definitely did not socially distance. In fact, a group of parishioners came to the front of the church jammed next to each other to take pictures of the President.
During the service, Trump was seated near the front of the church alongside Hope Hicks.
At one point, the pastors were speaking directly to Trump, saying he is coming for a “second wind” and a re-filling of the Holy Spirit.
“There is an army, and we will take this to the end,” one of the pastors said.
President Trump has arrived at International Church of Las Vegas for Sunday morning services. It’s an evangelical mega-church with a contemporary musical program.
The service began at 9 a.m. PT (noon Eastern) sharp with a song performed from a stage with a full band and people waving silver and gold lamé flags. The worship leaders encouraged the crowd to sing along, and lyrics are broadcast on screens.
The leader, named Christine Ana, is asking congregants to “shake off despair.”
“This nation has been walking in despair. This nation has been walking in disappointment,” she said ahead of Trump’s arrival.
Later, she said she didn’t care who else was in the room, she was going to worship and pray for “God and God alone.”
None of the people on the stage are wearing masks and based on the livestream, the first row of people in the crowd are also not wearing them.
Trump visited the church in October 2016, and some of the pastors and ministers laid their hands on him to pray.
Trump has not been a regular church goer since he took office.
In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday morning, Trump campaign senior advisor Lara Trump touted the campaign’s robust campaign operation.
Asked if she and others are wearing masks, she told Tapper, “We are wearing masks when it’s required indoors. Absolutely. And you’ll note that at our rallies we hand out masks to people, we ask them to wear them, there are signs up that say please wear your mask. We provide hand sanitizer.”
Remember: While the campaign does provide masks and hand sanitizer at rallies, there’s no enforcement of these policies, and it’s rare for surrogates to be seen wearing masks on the ground.
In a heated exchange, Lara Trump was unable to confirm that the President had tested negative within the mandated 72 hour window before the Cleveland debate, telling Tapper, “I assume the answer is yes. I was not physically there with him. And I work for the campaign and not in the White House.”
Asked if she would wear masks, in accordance with debate commission rules, and which she and other members of the Trump family violated in Cleveland, Lara told Tapper, “If we are asked to wear masks, we will do so.”
Delaware Sen. Chris Coons deflected when asked why Joe Biden did not campaign Saturday with less than three weeks before Election Day as campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon is warning supporters not to become complacent in a new memo.
President Trump visited two swing states Saturday.
“Joe Biden has continued to be engaged and effective in laying out a clear plan for how he is going to get us out of this pandemic and the recession that President Trump’ bundled mishandling of the pandemic has made worse than it ever needed to be,” he said.
Asked whether he would vote in favor of packing the court, Coons said he is “not a fan of expanding the court,” before adding, “we have a few weeks here to see whether there are four Republicans who will step back from this precipice.” He said that his mind is open to adding justices to the Supreme Court.
With 16 days until the Election, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will travel to Durham, North Carolina for voter mobilization event this afternoon.
This is the last weekend before Biden and President Trump face off for their final debate on Thursday night.
President Trump is already casting doubt on the fairness of the final presidential debate, downplaying expectations for his performance by attacking moderator NBC White House correspondent Kristen Welker at a rally in Janesville, Wisconsin, last night.
“I have known her for a long time, she is very unfair,” Trump told his supporters.
The next and final presidential debate is scheduled for Thursday, in Nashville, Tennessee.
He also again criticized NBC’s Savannah Guthrie, co-anchor of the “Today Show,” after she hosted the town hall with him on Thursday. “She was sort of jumping out of her seat,” he said not explaining what he meant.
A NBC spokesperson did not have any comment on the President’s comments. The spokesperson pointed out when Welker was named co-anchor of “Weekend Today” the President said NBC had “…made a very wise decision.”
NBC also pointed to a number of stories which had positive reviews of how she handled the event.
The Commission on Presidential Debates has released the topics for the final presidential debate between President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden that will take place next Thursday in Nashville, Tennessee.
The debate will start at 9:00 p.m. ET and run for 90 minutes without commercial breaks.
The six topics are:
The format is the same as the first debate: Each segment will last about 15 minutes, and the candidates will have two minutes to respond after the moderator, NBC’s Kristen Welker, opens each segment with a question. Welker will then use the rest of the time in the segment to facilitate further discussion on the topic.
In Friday’s announcement, the commission did not explain any further rule changes for the final contest, something it said it would do after the first debate between the presidential candidates devolved into a chaotic affair with the President flouting the rules and repeatedly interrupting the former vice president.
Remember: Trump and Biden were supposed to debate last Thursday, but that debate was canceled after Trump declined to participate in a virtual debate. The commission changed the format to a virtual debate due to the President’s positive coronavirus diagnosis earlier this month, which left him hospitalized for three days.
Both candidates instead participated in town halls on the night the debate was originally scheduled to take place. Biden appeared on ABC for an hour and a half town hall, and Trump appeared on NBC for an hour-long town hall.
