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- The poll, conducted by Axios and the software company Tableau between September 24 and October 24, found that if the general election were held today, former Vice President Joe Biden would carry Nevada narrowly. In a head-to-head matchup, Biden only garners the support of 50 percent of likely voters, compared to 49 percent for Trump.
- According to Rasmussen Reports’ first daily White House Watch survey, President Trump has overtaken his rival Democratic Nominee Joe Biden by a small margin. The latest national telephone and online survey has Trump ahead 48% to 47% among Likely U.S. Voters. 3% of likely voters prefer some other candidate, while 2% are still undecided. Biden enjoyed a 49% to 46% lead as of last Wednesday, but the race has gotten closer and closer since the month started. Monday’s report puts Trump ahead of Biden for the first time since the middle of September.
- Shortly after Joe Biden announced the campaign would make no more campaign stops or media events, the candidate reversed course.
Breitbart reported:
“He’s waved a white flag on life,” Trump replied when asked for his reaction to Biden’s accusation that the president had “waved the white flag” on fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
“He doesn’t leave his basement,” Trump continued. “This guy doesn’t leave his basement. He is a pathetic candidate, I will tell you that.”
At about an hour after the president’s comments, the Biden campaign broke the “lid” on in-person events to announce a local stop in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.
Biden only held three campaign events last week. On Sunday, October 18, Biden held a drive-in rally in North Carolina, and on Saturday he participated in two events in Pennsylvania.
He did not hold any events on Sunday, while President Trump traveled from Florida to North Carolina, to New Hampshire, to Maine, and back to Washington, DC, that day.
“I don’t know, there’s something going on,” Trump said at his rally in New Hampshire. “Somebody said it’s strategy, it’s not, because really, the strategy would be coming out.”
- Biden explains “revolutionary, institutional changes” he was been calling for on 60 minutes, From the CBS transcript:
Norah O’Donnell: I was listening to one of your podcasts and you said we need some revolutionary, institutional changes. Like what?
Former Vice President Joe Biden: Well, for example, I think we have to fundamentally change the way in which we deal with– institutional racism. For example– one of the hardest things, beyond police issues, there’s the issue of accumulation of wealth. There’s an awful lot of Black Americans who are equally as– they’re as qualified as white Americans based on the same status they’re in in terms of economic opportunity but they don’t get a chance. So, for example, if we just made every corporation pay minimum 15% tax; you got 91 pay no tax. That raises over $400 billion. I can send every single qualified person to a four-year college in their state for $150 billion. I can make sure every single person who qualifies community college can go and we still have a lotta money left over. That’s what I mean by significant institutional changes.-
- Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign claimed that he “misspoke” after he said his administration would provide public college educations for free at a cost of $150 billion during an interview with “60 Minutes” on CBS.
- Young adults are expected to turn out in droves to vote in the 2020 presidential election, a figure that could approach 2008 totals, according to a poll conducted by the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School. Sixty percent of respondents in the 18-29 age group surveyed in the Harvard poll said they will “definitely be voting,” compared to 47% who said the same in 2016 a week before the election. The 2008 election, which President Barack Obama won decidedly, saw the highest youth turnout since 1984, with 48.4% of eligible adults under the age of 30 turning out to vote.
- While Florida’s mail-in voting Democrats still hold a “commanding lead,” Republicans boast a large advantage with in-person early voting, Tampa Bay Times reported.More than 2 million Floridians have voted in person (2,000,976), according to the Florida Division of Election reports as of Sunday at 11 a.m. ET.
Among those, nearly half are registered Republicans. Here is the latest voted early in-person data:
- Republicans 926,456.
- Democrats 696,118.
- No Party Affiliation 353,718.
- Other 24,684.
Democrats have built up a large edge in mail-in, absentee ballots:
- Democrats 1,744,542.
- Republicans 1,150,433.
- No Party Affiliation 765,738
- Other 45,116.
There are still a number of absentee ballots provided that have yet to be returned:
- Democrats 927,198.
- Republican 711,852.
- No Party Affiliation 587,981
- Other 37,079