Former President Barack Obama and California Senator Kamala Harris offered their prayers Friday evening as President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump clashed with the timing of an appeal to raise funds emailed from the Trump campaign.
Subject line: “Lan ‘Obama.”
Read the message, “Lan ‘Obama and Foni Kamala Harris are calling on their liberal mega donors and to save Jay Biden’s failed campaign.” They’re just catching the Coastal Elite Fund-Razor. “
Just minutes ago, the Democratic nominee for Mr. Obama and Vice President, Ms. Harris opened his virtual fund riser, wishing the president and his wife a speedy recovery, in which the former president urged all Americans to hope for the president’s recovery. Even in the midst of a contentious campaign.
The belligerent tone of the email came hours after the Biden campaign pulled out all its negative announcements against the president, although it may take time to stop some of the already running atmosphere.
The Trump campaign has not announced any plans to block its attack ads against the Democratic nominee.
Former Vice President Joseph R. During a fundraiser for Biden Jr., Mr. Obama told observers: “Even when we are in the midst of political battles with most issues, we are all Americans and we are all human beings, and we make sure everyone is healthy. Mitchell and I want to make sure we accept the president and the first lady at this difficult time. “
Ms. Harris prayed her “the most prayers”, “It reminds us all that we should be vigilant, take care of ourselves and take care of each other.”
Two officials linked to actor Michael B. Jordan also tried to remove misinformation about voting, and especially about postal voting. Mr. Trump has spent weeks campaigning against the integrity of the American electoral system.
All three said they planned to cast their votes by mail.
“I’ll fill it up on my kitchen table and I’ll get to the drop boxes and I’ll drop it off as soon as possible,” Ms. Harris said he added that the date of requesting his ballot revolved around his calendar.
Mr. Obama, who lives in Hyde Park, Ill. Raising the name of his polling station, he said he had been wearing a mail-in ballot since winning the presidency to avoid crowds slowing down the lines when he appeared.
“It has a price when I vote face to face.” “A whole bunch of people who know it slow down.”
Since March, some of President Trump’s advisers have been wailing that the day may come when the president will test positive for the coronavirus. But that is not a planned event.
When the day came, early Friday morning, he rebuked the presidential campaign, leaving unanswered questions in its wake.
Mr. Trump is currently in Bethesda, Mo. In Walter Reed is at the National Military Medical Center, where officials said they would be closely monitored for “a few days” as a precaution.
But an official said it was better than the possibility of Mr. Trump leaving the White House on his own if his symptoms worsened, rather than the possibility of help being removed – and a presidential helicopter, a walk to Marine One, which took him to hospital, became ubiquitous a day later. The silence of the President allowed him to be seen as an ambulatory by reporters.
What happens next is someone’s guess. Trump advisers hope he can quickly improve the face of the epidemic-causing virus and show what he calls “determination.”
But Mr. Trump and former Vice President Joseph R. The second discussion between Biden Jr. is scheduled for October 15 for a relatively short period of life in recovery from coronavirus.
So far, the reversal of fortunes – in which Mr. Biden is on the campaign trail, and the president, who was mocking his opponent – carries a heavy weight on the Trump campaign.
Two Republican senators from the Judiciary Committee tested positive for coronavirus after attending White House events last week, with President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Amy Connie Barrett, questioning the future of her Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
Senators Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, and Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah, both of whom announced their exam results on Friday, are among the many who tested positive after attending events last Saturday.
Others include Mr. Trump’s campaign manager, Bill Stepian; Melania Trump, First Lady; John I. Jenkins, president of the University of Notre Dame; And Kelly Conway, a former top White House adviser who resigned in the summer. Ms. Conway She declared a positive result In a Twitter post late Friday night.
Sept. 26 for Judge Barrett. The Rose Garden ceremony was probably not a “super spreader” event, as it was outside. However, many top Republicans were present without masks or social distance, raising concerns that others may have contracted the virus, but have not yet been diagnosed. And during the White House debate, someone infected and without symptoms could become infected.
Leading Republicans have said they plan to continue “full steam ahead” to confirm Judge Barrett before election day. But with Mr. Trump’s illness, questions have also been raised about whether Senator Tillis and Senator Lee sit on the Judiciary Committee, which could hold the party’s extraordinarily ambitious timetable.
Mr. Tillis’s diagnosis also shattered Republicans’ hopes of retaining control of the Senate, given that they are already facing a difficult re-election.
Top Senate Democrats on Friday demanded that Republicans slow down their plans to confirm Judge Barrett, saying that if Republicans proceeded with a hearing without fully understanding the extent of the spread of the virus since Sept. 26, “already an illegal process would be a threat.” “
Democratic leader New York Sen. Chuck Schumer responded to Senator Tillis’ announcement Friday evening by saying he had “no symptoms” but would keep himself at home for 10 days, prompting Republicans to delay the confirmation hearing.
“We now have two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who have tested positive for Covid, and there could be more. I greet my colleagues, “said Mr. Schumer. “Proceeding with the hearing is irresponsible and dangerous, and there is no good reason to do so.”
The court’s confirmation of the Sixth Conviction will be the culmination of a decades-long reshuffle project, an effort by Kentucky’s majority leader, Senator Mitch McConnell.
Judge Barrett, 48, was given a negative test on Friday, a White House official said. Two officials with knowledge of her medical history said she had already contracted the coronavirus and had recovered earlier this year.
Judge Barrett was in close contact with Mr. Trump at the White House last weekend. She has worked closely with several White House officials and met with dozens of Republican senators on Capitol Hill, including Senator McConnell and Senator Lee.
A video has been posted on Twitter Senator Lee showed people hugging at the event. He said he had a negative test at the White House on Saturday.
It can take several days for a person to develop those symptoms or be exposed to the virus for a positive test. Anyone tested within just a day or two of exposure is likely to have a negative result even if infected.
The chairman of the Judicial Committee, Senator Lindsay Graham of South Carolina, said Friday that her panel is scheduled to begin a four-day public hearing on Judge Barrett’s nomination on Oct. 12. Senator Tillis and Senator Lee said they would be separated for 10 days, allowing them to emerge in time for the hearing.
In an interview Friday, Senator McConnell suggested that spreading the virus in Republican circles could mean that more legislators would virtually participate in the hearing. “This kind of underscores the need to do that,” he said.
But Democrats said a virtual hearing on such a result-oriented matter would be unacceptable.
A coronavirus outbreak has infected President Trump and spread to the Senate in a politically contested battle to install Judge Amy Connie Barrett in the Supreme Court before election day, with Republicans pushing ahead and Democrats urging a break.
In the remaining four weeks of the election, pulling a complex confirmation touching all three branches of government always promised a difficult task for Republicans in the midst of an epidemic. But by Friday night, the upheaval with the White House and Congress and Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee and North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis, announcing that they tested positive for the virus, was clearly a challenge. Both Mr. Lee and Mr. Tillis, grown up, are members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that convenes Judge Barrett’s confirmation hearing.
Top Republicans insisted that they judge. By 12 a.m. Judge Barrett will proceed at an unusually fast pace to hold a hearing on the nomination, sending out his full candidacy by October 22 and confirming it as early as October 26, eight days before the election. Day – even if it means breaking Senate norms and considering a lifetime judicial nomination by video conference. But the recent outbreak has also raised the possibility that Republicans could lose their fragile majority on the Justice Committee or on the Senate floor.
And he gave it to Democrats, who were already objecting to the pressure to establish a new justice so close to Mr. Trump’s election, a new reason for the delay. Seeing the possible opening, top Democrats called on the Senate to pause and assess the scope for the eruption. They declared that a completely virtual hearing would be unacceptable to a candidate for lifelong appointment in the country’s Supreme Court.
“We now have two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who have tested positive for Covid, and there could be more. I greet my colleagues. “Proceeding with the hearing is irresponsible and dangerous, and there is no good reason to do so.”
