Biden told supporters a little after 12:30 a.m., “We believe we’re on track to win this election.” But he emphasized the ballots remaining to be counted and did not declare victory.US Presidential Elections 2020 Highlights: With less than 36 hours to go for the US presidential elections, President Donald Trump held rallies in battleground states of Michigan, Iowa and North Caroline and planned stops in Georgia and Florida. Biden made an appearance in the closely contested state of Pennsylvania. Biden is set to close his campaign in Pittsburgh where he made his maiden campaign appearance in April 2019.
After attacking the main-in ballot system throughout his campaign, President Donald Trump says that he is gearing up for legal challenges in the counting of mail and absentee votes in Pennsylvania. “I think it is a terrible thing when ballots can be collected after an election. I think it is a terrible thing when people or states are allowed to tabulate ballots for a long period of time after the election is over because it can only lead to one thing,” Trump said. “We are going in the night of — as soon as the election is over — we are going in with our lawyers,” he added.
President Donald Trump's press secretary says Trump expects to spend election night at the White House watching results roll in.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany was asked on Fox News Channel's 'Fox & Friends' on Monday where the president planned to celebrate. She said Trump and some aides "will be together ... at the White House" for election night.
Trump's campaign had planned a traditional campaign party at his Washington, D.C., hotel. But Trump said last week that he was considering other options, including staying at the White House, because the District of Columbia's coronavirus protocols would restrict the size of the gathering, the Associated Press reported.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Senator Kamal Harris has emerged as a key player in the electioneering of the Biden campaign for the November 3 polls, crisscrossing some of the top battleground states and urging voters to change the course of the US history. Often called a "trailblazer" or a "woman Obama", Harris, whose mother immigrated from India in 195Os and father is an African American from Jamaica, could be the first female vice president of the country, if the latest polls are of any indication.
Harris, 57, has already scripted history by becoming the first African American and Black to become the vice presidential candidate of a major political party. With her campaign restricted by the COVID-19 social distancing regulations, Harris has emerged as a key player in the electioneering of the Biden campaign. Over the past few days, she has been crisscrossing some of the top battle ground states like Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Florida. Over the weekend, she became the first ever Democratic Party's vice-presidential candidate to campaign in the Republican bastion of Texas. PTI
A federal judge in Texas on Monday appeared skeptical of an attempt by Republicans to throw out about 127,000 votes already cast in the US presidential election at drive-through voting sites in Houston, a Democratic-leaning area.On the eve of Election Day, US District Judge Andrew Hanen said the Republicans who brought the case faced an "uphill road" in convincing him that the votes should be voided.The judge said the plaintiffs needed to show that Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins, a Democrat, had an "evil motive" in allowing drive-through voting as an alternative during the coronavirus pandemic. Hanen also questioned the last-minute timing of the case. Reuters
Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris has listed idli with a “really good sambar” and “any kind of tikka” as her favourite Indian dishes.
Born to a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, Harris, is the first Indian-origin and first Black woman to be picked by a major American political party for the top post.
Harris, responding to a question on what her favourite Indian dishes are, said: “So South Indian, it would be idli with.. a really good sambar, and then North Indian – probably any kind of tikka”. READ MORE
President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden were making a last ditch efforts on Monday to convince undecided voters of their plans and policies on the final day of the campaign in critical battleground states, with polls indicating that the race for the White House could be headed for a photo-finish.
The two candidates spent Sunday making their final pitches to voters ahead of Tuesday's election. Trump, 74, toured five battleground states of Michigan, Iowa, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida while his 77-year-old rival spoke at a campaign event in Pennsylvania, where the race also looks tight. Trump, a Republican, plans a hectic campaign trip through Wisconsin and Pennsylvania on Monday, aimed at saving the key states he won four years ago.
Both Biden and Trump are also trying to woo Indian-American voters, one of the critical voting blocs in this year's election. There is an estimated four million Indian-American population of which about 2.5 million are potential voters in the November 2020 presidential elections. Over 1.3 million Indian-Americans are voters in key battleground states, including Texas, Michigan, Florida and Pennsylvania.
President Donald Trump is suggesting that he will fire Dr. Anthony Fauci after Tuesday’s election, as his rift with the nation’s top infectious disease expert widens while the nation sees its most alarming outbreak of the coronavirus since the spring.
Speaking at a campaign rally in Opa-locka, Florida, Trump expressed frustration that the surging cases of the virus that has killed more than 231,000 people in the United States this year remains prominent in the news, sparking chants of “Fire Fauci” from his supporters.
“Don’t tell anybody but let me wait until a little bit after the election”, Trump replied to thousands of supporters early Monday, adding he appreciated their “advice.” READ MORE
US President Donald Trump has denied that he is planning to prematurely declare victory after the presidential polls are over on Tuesday and hinted that he is gearing up for a legal battle against a vote count that stretched past Election Day.
"No, no that was a false report," Trump told reporters on Sunday at the Charlotte airport in North Carolina amidst a news report that he is planning to prematurely declare victory on the election night.
Americans have rushed to vote early, already casting nearly 92 million mail-in ballots that could take days or weeks to be counted in some states - meaning a winner might not be declared in the hours after polls close on Tuesday.
Trump indicated that his team was gearing up for a legal battle.
US President Donald Trump has denied that he is planning to prematurely declare victory after the presidential polls are over on Tuesday and hinted that he is gearing up for a legal battle against a vote count that stretched past Election Day. "No, no that was a false report," Trump told reporters on Sunday at the Charlotte airport in North Carolina amidst a news report that he is planning to prematurely declare victory on the election night.
Americans have rushed to vote early, already casting nearly 92 million mail-in ballots that could take days or weeks to be counted in some states - meaning a winner might not be declared in the hours after polls close on Tuesday. Trump indicated that his team was gearing up for a legal battle.
Trump lamented Supreme Court's rulings that allowed for Pennsylvania and North Carolina to count absentee ballots that are postmarked before Election Day but arrive shortly after Tuesday. "I think it is a terrible thing when ballots can be collected after an election. I think it is a terrible thing when people or states are allowed to tabulate ballots for a long period of time after the election is over because it can only lead to one thing," Trump said.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has released the names of major fundraisers, including Indian-Americans, who helped him raise at least USD 100,000 for his election campaign this year.
The list, released on Sunday, contains the names of 800 major donors, including a few dozen Indian-Americans. Topping the list of Indian-Americans are well known community leaders Swadesh Chatterjee, Rameshk Kapoor, Shekar N Narasimhan, R Rangaswami, Ajay Jain Bhutoria and Frank Islam.
Among other prominent Indian-American bundlers are Neil Makhija, Rahu, Prakash, Deepak Raj, Raj Shah, Rajan Shah, Radhika Shah, Jill and Raj Singh, Nidhi Thakar, Kiran Jain, Sony Kalsi and Bela Bajaria. Indian-American Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal has also been listed as a bundler.
Given that the list of bundlers includes all those who have raised more than USD 100,000, the number of Indian-Americans in far less than those of former presidents Barack Obama and Bil Clinton campaigns. Some of the traditional Indian-American Democratic donors like hotelier Sant Chatwal are missing from the list.
When he had started his re-election campaign in June last year, Donald Trump possibly did not imagine that the world as we know it would change in the way it did following the global outbreak of coronavirus. This from a man who has for many undoubtedly changed the United States of America, global geopolitics, borders, and to some extent, the world’s lexicon. Take the term ‘fake news’ for instance. How frequently was the phrase applied in everyday conversations, much less in the vocabulary of politicians and global leaders, before Trump punctuated his every fourth argument with it?
It has been a perpetual state of upheaval since Trump became president. But as the US elections have drawn closer, the sense of chaos has only amplified. The start of 2019 brought political figures announcing their candidacy, with Tulsi Gabbard being among the first, closely followed by Kamala Harris. By April, Joe Biden had announced his campaign for 2020. READ MORE
The FBI said on Sunday it was investigating an incident in which a convoy of vehicles flying flags in support of President Donald Trump's re-election bid surrounded a tour bus carrying campaign staff for Democratic challenger Joe Biden on a Texas highway.Friday's incident - captured on video that was retweeted by Trump on Saturday with the message, "I LOVE TEXAS!" - prompted the Biden campaign to cancel at least two of its Texas events as Democrats accused the president of encouraging supporters to engage in acts of intimidation.Video footage showed a group of pickup trucks and SUVs bearing pro-Trump flags surrounding the Biden campaign bus as it traveled north along Interstate 35 between San Antonio and Austin. (Reuters)
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On Tuesday, the US will most likely know who its next president will be. But with just days to go before November 3, Donald Trump on Sunday once again cast doubt on the integrity of the elections. A Reuters report suggested that the winner may not be announced on Tuesday because of the high number of mail-in ballots, with the process taking a few days after November 3 to be completed.
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Every vote in a modern election being “counted, tabulated, finished” by midnight — is not possible and never has been. No state ever reports final results on election night, and no state is legally expected to.
Americans are accustomed to knowing who won on election night because news organizations project winners based on partial counts, not because the counting is actually completed that quickly.
The difference this year is not the timing of final results — those will come, as always, by the certification deadlines each state has set, ranging from two days after the election in Delaware to more than a month after in California. The difference, rather, is when news organizations are likely to have enough information to make accurate projections.
Some members of Donald Trump’s cabinet will gather at his Washington hotel on Tuesday night to watch election results, people familiar with the plans said, as the president hopes for a second poll-defying victory.
The viewing party is being arranged by the campaign and comes after Trump grappled with plans for the evening. The president has signaled that local restrictions in Washington have stymied his hopes of hosting a headline event at his hotel, just blocks from the White House. (Read more here)
Vehicles with Trump flags halted traffic Sunday on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey and jammed the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge between Tarrytown and Nyack, New York. Another pro-Trump convoy in Virginia ended in a tense shouting match with protesters as it approached a statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond.
In Georgia, a rally for Democrats was canceled shortly before it was scheduled to begin Sunday, with organizers worried about what they feared would be a “large militia presence” drawn by President Donald Trump’s own event nearby.
As the nation races toward Election Day, the tensions and acrimony surrounding an extraordinarily divisive campaign, coming on the heels of a summer of protests and racial unrest, are bleeding into everyday life and adding further uncertainty to an electoral process in which Trump has not committed to a peaceful transfer of power. (Read full analysis here)
The coronavirus pandemic has upended nearly every aspect of this election cycle — from how presidential campaigns are conducted to how the country ultimately votes. The pandemic spawned an election year like never before — rallies were held virtually, conventions were called off, debates were rescheduled, a record number of ballots were sent by post, and smack in the middle of it all, President Donald Trump himself, tested positive for the deadly infection. (Read our Explainer here)
Joe Biden is denouncing disruptive demonstrations by supporters of President Donald Trump across the country. Speaking at a canvass kickoff in the Philadelphia suburbs, Biden referenced a recent effort by Trump supporters to swarm a Biden campaign bus and drive it off the road in Texas. Trump tweeted a video of the caravan and declared, "I LOVE TEXAS!'' Biden also referenced reports that Trump supporters shut down a major roadway in New Jersey. "We've never had anything like this. At least we've never had a president who thinks it's a good thing,'' Biden said.
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President Donald Trump says he's preparing for legal challenges to the counting of mail and absentee votes in Pennsylvania. Speaking to reporters in Charlotte ahead of a rally in Hickory, NC Trump says: ``We're going in the night of _ as soon as the election is over _ we're going in with our lawyers.'' Trump has repeatedly attacked the Supreme Court in recent days for not blocking the counting of late arriving ballots for days after Election Day.
Kamala Harris declared a vote for Joe Biden is a vote for someone who supports democracy will enhance Americas standing in the world and conducts himself with dignity during a campaign stop in North Carolina She says Trump by contrast offers none of those things Harris made her remarks to a small crowd in Goldsboro a majority Black city in Wayne County It was her first of two Sunday stops in North Carolina.
Joe Biden holds a clear advantage over President Donald Trump across four of the most important presidential swing states, a new poll shows, bolstered by the support of voters who did not participate in the 2016 election and who now appear to be turning out in large numbers to cast their ballots, mainly for the Democrat.
Biden, the former vice president, is ahead of Trump in the Northern battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, as well as in the Sun Belt states of Florida and Arizona, according to a poll of likely voters conducted by The New York Times and Siena College. His strength is most pronounced in Wisconsin, where he has an outright majority of the vote and leads Trump by 11 points, 52% to 41%.
Biden’s performance across the electoral map appears to put him in a stronger position heading into Election Day than any presidential candidate since at least 2008.
Arthur Benson calls himself a “reluctant gun owner”. A 34-year-old from Pennsylvania, Benson had planned a Black Lives Matter protest this summer. The 50 people who showed up on his side were matched by almost 300 counter-protesters carrying Trump flags and holding large automatic rifles. “There is no way I could have saved my life that day if they had pulled the guns on me,” says Benson, a Black himself, adding, “I feel that my hand was forced.”
A rising number of Americans are doing the same, buying guns for the first time, in the midst of widespread protests, a polarised country and a pandemic, all of which have added to the tension leading up to the November 3 presidential election. Read full story here
The Texas Supreme Court on Sunday denied a Republican-led petition to toss nearly 127,000 ballots cast at drive-thru voting places in the Houston area. The state's all-Republican high court rejected the request from a state representative and two GOP candidates without explaining its decision. Their effort to have the Harris County ballots thrown out is still set to be taken up during an emergency hearing in federal court on Monday.
Conservative Texas activists have railed against expanded voting access in Harris County, where a record 1.4 million early votes have already been cast. The county is the nation's third largest and a crucial battleground in Texas, where President Donald Trump and Republicans are bracing for the closest election in decades on Tuesday. US District Judge Andrew Hanen is expected to rule on the same issue on Monday. Hanen's decision to hear arguments on the brink of Election Day drew attention from voting rights activists. The Texas Supreme Court also rejected a nearly identical challenge last month. (AP)
Joe Biden holds a clear advantage over President Donald Trump across four of the most important presidential swing states, a new poll shows, backed by the support of voters who did not participate in the 2016 election and who now appear to be turning out in large numbers to cast their ballots on Tuesday, mainly for the Democrat.
Biden is ahead of Trump, a Republican, in the Northern battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, as well as in the states of Florida and Arizona, according to a poll of likely voters conducted by The New York Times and Siena College. Read more
US President Donald Trump is focused on feeding his ego and has not shown any interest in helping anyone except himself, whereas his Democratic rival Joe Biden cares about the coronavirus pandemic and keeping "your family safe", Barack Obama has said.
Making a last pitch on Saturday to get his former vice-president and Democratic presidential candidate Biden elected as the next occupant of the White House, Obama, during rallies in Michigan, blasted Trump for his policies and rhetoric. He said Trump in the last four years had not shown any interest in helping any of his countrymen except himself.
"President Trump is focused on feeding his ego, while the Democratic presidential candidate Biden focused on decency and empathy," said Obama, who was the 44th US president.