Election 2020

Election 2020

Everything you need to know about the local, state and federal elections in 2020.

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Trump, Biden and the road to 270 electoral votes
With Election Day just eight weeks away, former Vice President Joe Biden is maintaining the same comfortable lead in most national polls that he enjoyed through the summer. He also has an advantage, though narrower, in many of the battleground states that will decide the election. But President Donald Trump remains in striking distance.
Trump's rural support puts Democratic bulwark Minnesota in play
The president hopes that what led to victory in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania will extend to Minnesota, where his response to COVID-19 and racial justice protests has support in rural areas.
House investigating DeJoy over campaign finance allegations
House Democrats will investigate whether Postmaster General Louis DeJoy encouraged employees at his business to contribute to Republican candidates and then reimbursed them in the guise of bonuses, a violation of campaign finance laws.
Trump, Biden spar over economy, workers in Labor Day blitz
Labor Day typically marks the unofficial start to the fall campaign season as candidates accelerate their activity for the final sprint to Election Day. Biden was meeting with labor leaders and union workers in Pennsylvania while his running mate Harris campaigned in Wisconsin. Pence was in Wisconsin, too, while Trump held a White House press conference.
Trump faces fallout from report he calls veterans 'losers' and 'suckers'
President Trump vehemently denied the report in The Atlantic, which cited unnamed sources describing offensive comments Trump has made about America's war dead and wounded veterans. Other media outlets have corroborated parts of the story.
Trump denies calling U.S. war dead 'losers,' 'suckers'
President Donald Trump is angrily denying a report that he made disparaging remarks about U.S. service members who have been captured or killed, including that he described American war dead at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France in 2018 as “losers” and “suckers.”
Minnesota Supreme Court expected to expedite voter-aid case
Justices will decide if a pair of laws covering the level of assistance permitted for voters will remain active or be suspended. A lower court halted enforcement. The case is one in a sprawling battle over the way the 2020 election will be conducted.
Trump faces pushback for urging people to vote twice as test
President Donald Trump is facing a backlash for urging voters in North Carolina to vote by mail and then try to vote again in person to test the mail-in ballot system in the Nov. 3 election.