Trump News Live: The Latest Updates When The President Says He Wants To Fight Biden On Election Eve

‘Let’s go to our lawyers’: Trump admits he plans to challenge election result as soon as polls close

As we’ve seen, most of the president’s most inflammatory remarks on Sunday came during his last rally of the day in his adopted state of Florida.

But what else did he say during the rest of his five-state tour?

In Iowa, Trump pushed the dangerous lie that if the outcome is not clear by Tuesday night, the process has been corrupted.

Above all, though, the president was busy serving up his usual steaming bowls of grievance soup: the coronavirus is being hyped by hostile media, Obama should be in jail, etc.

But before his third meeting of the day in North Carolina, Trump made it clear to reporters that he intends to present a legal challenge whatever the outcome of Tuesday’s vote.

Graeme Massie picks up the thread.

Democrats flinched when poll shows Trump has seven in Iowa

Trump was addressing supporters in Dubuque, Iowa, on Sunday with optimistic spirits after a Des Moines Registry/ The Mediacom opinion poll showed him seven points ahead of Biden, up 48 percent to 41.

In September, the same poll showed both candidates were tied at 47 percent in the state that backed Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, but they favored the Republican president four years ago.

However, the average of RearClearPolitics opinion polls suggests a much tighter race in Iowa, with Trump at 46.5 percent and Biden at 45.8 percent.

However, this is certainly of great concern among Democrats …

Candidates touring key key states on the last day of the campaign

Trump will seek support in four battle states on Monday, while Joe Biden focuses on Pennsylvania and Ohio on the final day of the campaign in his long and bitter run for the White House.

The Republican follows Biden in national opinion polls ahead of Election Day Tuesday. But the contest looks so close in enough swing states that Trump could still muster the 270 votes needed to prevail in the state-by-state Electoral College that determines the winner.

Trump, aiming to avoid becoming the first sitting president to lose re-election since George HW Bush in 1992, will hold rallies Monday in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and two in Michigan.

He won those states in 2016 against Democrat Hillary Clinton, but polls show Biden threatening to win them back for Democrats.

Trump will conclude his campaign in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the same place where he concluded his 2016 presidential race with a post-midnight rally on Election Day.

Biden, his running mate Kamala Harris and their spouses will spend most of Monday in Pennsylvania, separating to reach the four corners of a state that has become vital to the former vice president’s hopes.

Biden will gather union members and members of the African American community in the Pittsburgh area before pop star Lady Gaga joins an evening rally in Pittsburgh.

Biden will also drift to the Ohio border, spending time on his final day of campaigning in a state that was once considered a lockdown for Trump, who won it in 2016, but where polls now show close competition.

Biden has concluded the campaign on the offensive, traveling almost exclusively to the states Trump won in 2016 and criticizing the president’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has dominated the later stages of the race.

Biden accuses Trump of quitting fighting the pandemic, which has killed more than 230,000 Americans and cost millions of jobs. Polls show Americans trust Biden more than Trump to fight the virus.

Former President Barack Obama, whom Biden served as vice president for eight years, will hold a rally to get the vote in Atlanta, Georgia, on Monday before closing the campaign for the night with a rally in Miami.

Here’s Graeme Massie on Gaga and John Legend getting into the fray to boost Biden.

Trump Praises Supporters Who Ambushed Biden’s Bus As ‘Very Nice People’

The president yesterday also praised truck drivers who ambushed a Biden campaign bus in Texas on Friday, calling them “very nice people” who were “patriots.” [that] did nothing wrong, “despite the fact that the FBI opened an investigation into the incident.

He had joked about it earlier that day in Michigan …

… and on Twitter, where he tweeted “I LOVE TEXAS!” about a video of the episode, seemingly unconcerned about the threat he poses to his opponent’s supporters or being seen to condone dangerous political violence.

Chris Riotta has this report.

The president fantasizes about hitting Biden

With the pandemic out of control and more than 230,000 Americans dead under his command, the president spent his final hours of the campaign bragging that he could beat his electoral rival Joe Biden in a fight.

Trump hints he will fire Dr. Fauci after election

Donald Trump released his re-election message to supporters in the key battlefield states of Michigan, Iowa, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida on Sunday, hinting to a crowd in Opa-Locka that he intends to fire the top expert. in infectious diseases of the country, Dr. Anthony Fauci, after the elections.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the president and Dr. Fauci have publicly disagreed on several points, although the epidemiologist has become a popular figure with the public for his measured advice on how to tackle Covid-19.

On Sunday night, Trump criticized media coverage of the coronavirus crisis, adding that after Tuesday’s election “not much will be heard about it.”

The Florida crowd, many of whom were not wearing masks, responded by chanting “Fire Fauci.”

Trump remained silent during the chants, after which he told the crowd, “Don’t tell anyone, but let me wait until a bit after the election … I appreciate the advice.”

In an interview with The Washington Post this weekend, Fauci warned that the United States will have to deal with “a lot of damage” in the coming weeks due to the increase in coronavirus cases.

Fauci said the United States “could not be in a poorer position” to stop the increase in cases as more people flock indoors during the colder fall and winter months. He says the United States will need to make an “abrupt change” in public health precautions.

Fauci added that he believes Democratic candidate Joe Biden “is taking it seriously from a public health perspective,” while Trump “sees it from a different perspective.” Fauci, who is on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said that perspective emphasizes “the economy and the reopening of the country.”

Deere said Fauci “has a duty to express concerns or push for a change in strategy” but is instead “choosing to criticize the president in the media and make his political leanings known.”

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