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It’s not just ‘suburban women.’ Trump is doing worse with all white voters than in 2016.

From now until Election Day, Yahoo News and YouGov will deliver weekly reports on how sentiment is shifting among key groups of voters in the final phase of the 2020 presidential campaign. At his rally Tuesday in Johnstown, Pa., President Trump briefly veered off script to beseech one particular — and pivotal — slice of the electorate. “Suburban women, will you please like me?” Trump asked. “Please. Please. I saved your damn neighborhood, OK?” The president’s tone was lightly… Source link

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It’s not just ‘suburban women.’ Trump is doing worse with all white voters than in 2016.

From now until Election Day, Yahoo News and YouGov will deliver weekly reports on how sentiment is shifting among key groups of voters in the final phase of the 2020 presidential campaign. At his rally Tuesday in Johnstown, Pa., President Trump briefly veered off script to beseech one particular — and pivotal — slice of the electorate. “Suburban women, will you please like me?” Trump asked. “Please. Please. I saved your damn neighborhood, OK?” The president’s tone was lightly… Source link

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Most Trump voters say they will not accept the 2020 results if Biden wins because of mail-in ballots

Most Americans now believe that President Trump will not accept the results of November’s election if he loses to Joe Biden, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll — and an even larger majority of Trump voters say they too will refuse to accept a narrow loss if mail-in ballots contribute to Biden’s victory. In the midst of a pandemic that has seen many states expand their mail-in balloting systems to limit dangerous crowding on Election Day, the issue of postal voting took center… Source link

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Trump floats unprecedented idea of delaying election, which he cannot do

President Trump on Thursday suggested the implausible scenario of delaying the 2020 election, which would take an act of Congress.  Trump raised the audacious idea while continuing his all-out campaign against mail-in voting. He sought to contrast mail-in voting with “good” absentee voting, even though they are the same thing in most states.   “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history,”… Source link

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Mueller ‘let Trump get away with lying,’ former House special counsel says

Former special counsel Robert Mueller. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Former special counsel Robert Mueller’s decision not to charge President Trump with obstruction of justice was an “unconscionable” lapse that “let Trump get away with lying,” Norm Eisen, former special counsel for the House Judiciary Committee, said in a Wednesday interview on the Yahoo News podcast “Skullduggery.” Eisen’s sharp comments about Mueller, for whom he said he has always had great respect, came… Source link

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Twitter removes tweet highlighted by Trump falsely claiming COVID-19 ‘cure’

WASHINGTON — Twitter removed a tweet that had been retweeted by President Donald Trump that falsely said that there was a cure for the coronavirus. Late Monday, Trump retweeted the tweet from an account with the handle “@stella_immanuel” that said: “Covid has cure. America wake up.” Twitter soon after removed the tweet and replaced it with a gray box that says, “This Tweet is no longer available.” A cure for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, doesn’t exist, and scientists have… Source link

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Trump only pivoted on coronavirus after reportedly being warned of spikes among ‘our people’ in red states

People close to President Trump told The Washington Post they think that, throughout most of the coronavirus pandemic, he struggled to wholly address the crisis because of an unwillingness to admit error, a positive feedback loop from advisers and Fox News, and a “penchant for magical thinking” that led him to believe the virus would soon disappear. But Trump has seemingly come around a bit and is now acknowledging the pandemic isn’t going to improve overnight. Per the Post, the pivot… Source link

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