Landslide predicted for Democrat Joe Biden is nowhere in sight as Donald Trump takes Florida
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/us-election-polls-wrong-biden-trump-b1588127.html
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is leading in most national and state-level polls one day before Election Day, leaving his supporters cautiously optimistic as they near the finish line.Polling shows Biden…
Source: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/524084-polls-show-biden-with-edge-over-trump-in-key-states
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Julia Manchester
Americans will have the opportunity to head to the polls on Tuesday amid a pandemic that has upended the traditional way in which elections are conducted in the U.S.More than 90 million Americans have already cast…
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Explore POLITICO’s real-time 2020 U.S. Senate election results and live maps by county and district
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Explore POLITICO’s real-time 2020 U.S. House election results and live maps by county and district
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Democrat Cal Cunningham holds a comfortable 10-point lead over Sen. Thom Tillis (R) in the closely watched North Carolina Senate race, according to …
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden holds a slim lead over President Trump in the crucial battleground state of Florida, according to a new poll.The …
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden holds a commanding lead over President Trump in Wisconsin in a new poll of the key battleground state released less than a week before Election Day.The …
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has a 7-point lead over President Trump in the crucial swing state of Michigan just days before the Nov. 3 election, according to a new poll.The forme…
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The 20- to 29-year-olds are making their presence felt in places such as Florida, Texas, Michigan and elsewhere.
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/young-voters-swing-states-are-big-part-early-surge-could-n1244923
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Exclusive: 63% of Hispanics believe that Covid-19 is the biggest challenge to address, followed by climate change
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For the fourth straight year Bell’s Two Hearted Ale has been voted the best beer in America by Zymurgy, a magazine by the American Homebrewers Association.
In such a saturated American craft beer market, continuing to win best beer is no small feat. — Read the rest
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More than half of registered voters say in a new poll that President Trump does not deserve to be reelected.Fifty-six percent of voters …
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Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by more than 6 percentage points among likely voters in Pennsylvania, according to a new survey of the swing state that could determine the outcome of the White House race.
A USA Today/Suffolk University poll released Wednesday reports that 48.6 percent of Pennsylvania likely voters prefer the Democratic nominee, while 42.4 percent favor the Republican incumbent.
Biden’s advantage represents an improvement on his average performance in other recent Pennsylvania polling. According to a RealClearPolitics average of surveys conducted in the state from Oct. 4-19, he is 3.5 percentage points ahead of Trump.
Trump won Pennsylvania by less than 1 percentage point in 2016. His ability to flip that state and the two Midwestern battlegrounds of Michigan and Wisconsin helped secure his Electoral College victory.
But Biden — a native of Scranton, Pa., with close ties to Pennsylvania developed during his decades as a senator from neighboring Delaware — has been working to win back the state widely viewed as a potential tipping point in the November election.
Trump held a campaign rally Tuesday night in Erie, Pa., and Barack Obama will headline a drive-in rally Wednesday in Philadelphia — the former president’s first in-person event on behalf of Biden’s campaign.
The USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll was conducted Oct. 15-19, surveying 500 likely Pennsylvania general election voters with a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/21/biden-leads-trump-pennsylvania-430730
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Democratic nominee Joe Biden is ahead of President Trump in Wisconsin and Arizona, both states won by the president in 2016, according to polls released Sunday.The two …
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Justine Coleman
Donald Trump has fixated on Minnesota since his narrow loss to Hillary Clinton there four years ago. But with less than a month until the election, his prospects there are dimming.
Joe Biden’s polling lead remains solid. Even after heavy campaign spending and recent visits to the state by the president and top surrogates, Biden was running ahead of Trump by more than 9 percentage points, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average.
“I haven’t heard from anyone on the Republican side who’s to some degree confident,” said Michael Brodkorb, a former deputy chair of the Minnesota Republican Party. “I think the best you’ll hear from a Republican in Minnesota is they think that the race is close.”
Four years ago, it was close. Trump lost the state by fewer than 45,000 votes, and immediately after the election began signaling his infatuation with Minnesota. It was one of his few offensive opportunities on the 2020 battleground map.
If he could limit his losses in the Twin Cities and their suburbs and run up turnout in more rural, conservative reaches of the state, Republicans and Democrats alike believed he had a credible chance of winning — something no Republican has done since Richard Nixon in 1972.
The president has traveled to Northern Minnesota twice in recent weeks in an effort to juice his base in a region culturally distant from the Democratic-heavy cities Minneapolis and St. Paul. Before largely white crowds in Bemidji in mid-September and Duluth two weeks ago, Trump mocked Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Somali-American and former refugee who represents a Minneapolis-based district. At both events, he said Biden would “turn Minnesota into a refugee camp.”
“History suggests Minnesota is an uphill climb for any Republican candidate for president,” Tim Pawlenty, the former Republican governor of Minnesota, said in an email. “But Trump has a better shot than most.”
The problem for Trump is that the numbers aren’t breaking for him the way they did in 2016. Four years ago, Trump won Minnesota white voters by 7 percentage points and independents by 2 percentage points. It was a major advantage in a state where 87 percent of voters that year were white.
But Biden is now carrying both of those groups — whites by 2 points and independents by 20 percentage points, according to a CBS News/YouGov survey. Even among whites without college degrees, Trump’s most reliable demographic, Biden has cut sharply into Trump’s lead, according to the poll.
In part, that has more to do with Biden than with Trump. One reason Trump came close to carrying Minnesota four year ago was that Clinton alienated many voters there, especially in rural western areas of the state and in northeastern Minnesota, in and around the blue-collar Iron Range. Trump only drew about as many votes in Minnesota that year as Mitt Romney did in his losing effort four years earlier, but Clinton’s underperformance put the state in play.
Biden appears to be a far more palatable nominee for Democrats. His profile is less like Clinton’s than that of the state’s moderate Democratic governor, Tim Walz, who won office in 2018 by more than 11 percentage points. With a relatively high approval rating, Walz is a benefit to Biden in the state, and the two appeared together in Duluth last month.
In addition, Biden is bombarding the state with paid advertising, overwhelming Trump’s presence there. Throughout September, as early voting began in Minnesota, Biden spent nearly $6 million on TV and radio in Minnesota, more than double what Trump spent, according to the ad-tracking firm Advertising Analytics. Trump, meanwhile, appears to be cutting back.
“There was definitely concern in early September that the race was tightening here,” said Ken Martin, chairman of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. “But right now, we feel very good about the position we’re in … This is an election where I wish the election were tomorrow.”
It has already started. By Friday, the state had recorded more than 635,000 ballots cast, still weeks before Election Day. Minnesota does not register voters by party, but Democrats and Republicans expected a large majority of the early vote to tilt Democratic, with Republicans more likely to vote on Election Day.
Jennifer Carnahan, chairwoman of the Minnesota Republican Party, said “it’s still a very tight race.”
Carnahan and other Republicans in Minnesota believe, as Trump supporters do elsewhere, that polls are under-counting Trump’s support. On the same night that Trump campaigned in Duluth, Chuck Novak, the mayor of Ely, a small town at the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, marveled at the size of a recent “Trump train” of supportive motorists. And he said he is certain that other Trump supporters remain hesitant to share publicly — or with pollsters — their true feelings about the president. In his Iron Range city, he said he knows who they are “if they have a pro-mining sign” on their lawn.
As for the polls, Novak said, “I like the polls the way they’re reading. I do, because it will keep the Democrats home on Election Day.”
Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/14/minnesota-swing-states-425366
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The Article Was Written/Published By: David Siders
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden attracted more viewers than President Donald Trump to their heavily anticipated dueling town halls Thursday.
Biden’s town hall, which was hosted by ABC, attracted more than 14 million viewers, according to estimates from Nielsen released by ABC News. Trump’s town hall, which was shown on NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC, garnered about 13.5 million viewers. On NBC News alone, about 11 million people tuned into Trump’s town hall, Variety reported.
Biden scheduled his event after Trump withdrew from the second presidential debate scheduled for that night. The Commission on Presidential Debates had arranged for the second debate to be virtual after Trump tested positive for coronavirus. But Trump refused to face off via a videolink.
After the Biden campaign secured the ABC town hall, NBC News agreed to host a coinciding event for Trump — a decision that met fierce backlash both in and out of the company as being a gift to the Trump campaign. MSNBC’s head Phil Griffin was frustrated with NBC News President Noah Oppenheim’s agreeing to the event, POLITICO reported. MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes, whose show was skipped to accommodate the town hall, both hinted at their opposition to the event on their programs.
Still, NBC moderator Savannah Guthrie repeatedly grilled Trump on everything from QAnon to the coronavirus pandemic. During public and campaign events Friday, Trump repeatedly went after Guthrie as “totally crazy.”
The first presidential debate drew an audience of about 73.1 million viewers, according to Nielsen, while the vice presidential debate drew about 57.9 million.
Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/16/biden-town-hall-out-rates-trumps-429980
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“Prohibiting the open-carry of firearms in areas where citizens cast their ballots is necessary to ensure every voter is protected,” a state official said.
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michigan-bans-open-carry-guns-near-polling-places-election-day-n1243758
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Donald Trump faced condemnation on Friday over his failure to disavow the QAnon conspiracy theory during duelling TV events that put his differences with challenger Joe Biden on vivid display.
Related: Biden’s town hall drew 2 million more viewers than Trump’s in early figures – live
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/16/trump-biden-town-hall-qanon-tv-ratings
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Likely voters in 10 battleground states were found to overwhelmingly support LGBTQ rights, according to a survey by Hart Research and the Human Rights Campaign.
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/majority-trump-supporters-battleground-states-favor-lgbtq-rights-poll-finds-n1243238
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