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Americans will elect their president on November 3, 2020. Will it be Donald Trump again? Or will Joe Biden, who won the Democratic primary, win? All news and updates at a glance:
Biden and Trump use their stages in front of the TV audience
Friday October 16, 3.15 am: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has called for national action against the coronavirus and the use of masks. The masks could prevent another lockdown, Biden said Thursday night (local time) in a question time on ABC broadcaster with voters in Philadelphia. US President Donald Trump is a role model, Biden said. If the president doesn’t wear a mask or makes fun of the people who wear them, people would conclude that it doesn’t matter.
On his own account, Biden doesn’t want to reverse all of President Donald Trump’s tax breaks. Referring to tax cuts for the richest one percent, Biden said, “I’m talking about not abolishing all tax cuts.” Tax increases for corporations and people with higher incomes would generate a large amount of money that could “make life easier.”
Trump was holding a poll question time with voters in Miami, Florida, hosted by NBC at the same time. He reiterated his false statement that according to the CDC, 85 percent of people who wear a mask will become infected with the virus. In fact, according to CDC research, 85 percent of a group of people infected with coronavirus said in July that they had worn a mask often or always in the previous 14 days. Trump defended his actions against the corona pandemic: “We are winners.”
The US President did not provide any information on when was the last time he tested negative for the corona virus prior to his Covid illness. “I don’t even remember it,” Trump said. It is constantly being tested. The question of the last negative test result is relevant because it says in the room if it is possible that Trump was still conducting events when he already knew he was infected.
Candidates should be interviewed in a joint television debate. Plans for the second duel before the November 3 election were mixed up after Trump was infected with the corona virus. Trump had declined to hold the debate online for security reasons. Biden then announced his own television event, Trump did the same.
Kamala Harris will go into corona quarantine as a precautionary measure.
Thursday, October 15, 5 pm: The Democratic candidate for the vice presidency of the United States, Kamala Harris, suspends her campaign trips for the rest of the week after two cases of corona in her environment. His team emphasized that this was just a precautionary measure. On Wednesday night, it emerged that Harris’ communications chief Liz Allen and a member of the flight crew had tested positive. Harris was with them on October 8. But they all wore N95 masks to protect the user.
According to the US health authority, CDC, Harris does not have to go into quarantine because he was not in the immediate vicinity of those infected two days before his positive tests, he said. However, he will refrain from traveling until the weekend and will limit himself to online events. Harris attended the hearing for US Supreme Court candidate Amy Coney Barrett held in the boardroom of her office on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Biden raises a record amount of donations
Thursday, October 15, 9:50 am: Joe Biden’s campaign team received a record $ 383 million (€ 326 million) in donations in September. With this, Biden breaks his own record. In the previous month, the Democratic presidential candidate raised $ 364.5 million (310 million euros).
Biden announced the record amount in a video posted Wednesday night (local time) on Twitter. “I’m overwhelmed,” Biden writes in the video tweet. He thanked everyone “who contributed a few dollars.” $ 203 million (€ 173 million) of the total came from online donors, wrote the Biden campaign manager. Jen O’Malley Dillon on Twitter. 1.1 million people had donated money to Biden’s campaign team for the first time. A total of 5.5 million people supported Biden’s election campaign with donations. According to O’Malley Dillon, the campaign team has a total budget of $ 432 million for the last three weeks of the campaign.
Biden’s campaign team has now caught up with the finance leader of Trump’s campaign team. Biden first had to get out of the field of the many democratic presidential candidates and unite the democratic donors, while Trump was able to start the election campaign directly and also collect many donations. Trump’s team has yet to release the amount of donations raised in September. In August, the president’s team raised $ 210 million (€ 179 million). The sum of donations raised by Biden always exceeded donations to Trump’s election campaign team.
The election campaign team saw a significant increase in donations to Biden after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The television debate with Trump also threw donations into Biden’s election campaign coffers: in one day, Biden’s team raised donations of $ 31 million (26 million euros).
Trump’s son Barron was infected with the virus
Wednesday, October 14, 11:50 pm: Just two weeks after her Corona diagnosis, First Lady Melania Trump announced that US President Donald Trump and his son Barron had contracted the virus. The 14-year-old had shown no symptoms and has now tested negative for the corona virus again, Melania Trump said Wednesday.
The White House initially said that Barron Trump had tested negative for the virus after his parents were found to be infected with corona. The first lady tries to protect the privacy of her 14-year-old son. She did not explain why she did not make her diagnosis public earlier.
The 50-year-old woman recalled her own Covid 19 disease in her message. “I was very lucky that my diagnosis came with minimal symptoms, even though they all hit me at the same time and it felt like a roller coaster of symptoms in the days that followed.” You have now tested negative for the corona virus and will soon meet your obligations again.
US President Donald Trump used the mild course of his youngest son’s corona infection as a reason to open schools. “Barron tested positive. But everything was fine in Barron. Then it tested negative, right? Because that’s what happens: people contract it and it disappears. Bring the kids back to schools, we have to bring the kids from back to school”. Send to school, “Trump said during a campaign appearance in the US state of Iowa on Wednesday. He is convinced that his 14-year-old son did not even realize he was infected,” because they are young and their immune system is strong and fight it. “
Trump sets up his own TV Question Time with Biden’s
Wednesday, October 14, 3:15 pm: US President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden will compete with each other for Question Time instead of their second televised debate. NBC television announced a meeting between Trump and voters Thursday night at 8:00 p.m. local time (2:00 p.m. CEST Friday) in Miami. A similar Biden event in Philadelphia, which will be broadcast on ABC, was already arranged for this date last week.
Actually, the second candidate debate should have taken place on Thursday, also as a question time with the voters. But the plans were confused when President Trump fell ill with Covid-19. The commission announced last week that it would hold the debate online instead of bringing the candidates together in one room. Trump later canceled his participation. Biden later organized his own television event. Trump has apparently now reacted to this.
With the announcement, there is also new information about the president’s crown tests. The broadcaster announced that a PCR test was performed on Trump on Tuesday, which was analyzed by immunologist Anthony Fauci at the National Institutes of Health research center. It was said “with a high degree of certainty” that Trump was no longer contagious. Trump’s personal physician, Sean Conley, had previously based this conclusion on rapid antigen tests, which are considered less reliable.
Fauci declared that Trump was no longer contagious. Therefore, the president could participate in an event on NBC News station on Thursday without any problem, he told CBS station.
US Investigator: Extremists Appear To Be Considering Kidnapping Virginia Governor
Wednesday, October 14, 5:18 am: More details were released after a plot against the Michigan government was stopped last week. The suspected extremists arrested last Friday for conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer are also believed to have identified Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam as a possible target. This was reported by various US media on Tuesday after a court hearing in which FBI investigators had testified. Consequently, the suspects had targeted Northam because of its policy of containing the corona virus. Northam announced Tuesday that there is currently no specific threat to him and his family.
Ralph Northam, like Michigan Governor Whitmer, is a member of the Democratic Party. When the two politicians took action against the corona pandemic, there were protests from supporters of President Donald Trump in the states. Trump also used Twitter to support the right-wing militias that tried to occupy Parliament in Michigan in the spring. There he wrote “Free Michigan!” Alena Yarmosky, a spokeswoman for the Virginia governor, slammed Trump on Tuesday: “The rhetoric coming out of this White House has serious and potentially fatal consequences. It has to stop.”
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