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Biden, Trump press contrasts in Midwest after debate chaos
PITTSBURGH (AP) — President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden kept up their debate-stage clash from afar on Wednesday as they competed for working-class voters in the Midwest, while elected officials in both parties — and the debate commission, too — sought to deal with the most chaotic...
Editorial Roundup: US
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Sept. 30 The San Francisco Chronicle on the presidential debate: Americans should be saddened, if not angered, by the distressingly unhinged debate between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday night. Some of the blame...
Trump thrusts Supreme Court pick into election turmoil
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s stark expectation that the Supreme Court will intervene to “look at the ballots” in what he calls a rigged election casts new questions Wednesday on the Senate’s rush to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the vacant seat before Nov....
Florida Democrats post wide lead in mail-in ballot requests
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — No state looms larger in the fight for the White House than Florida, where a loss by President Donald Trump would almost certainly block his path to reelection. With just over a month until Election Day, Democrats are encouraged by a substantial lead in requests for mail-in...
Editorial Roundup: West Virginia
Recent editorials from West Virginia newspapers: ___ Sept. 28 The Charleston Gazette-Mail on West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice facing questions about the state's coronavirus map: Gov. Jim Justice sighed, voiced some folksy phrases of frustration, and dived into the answer again. Trust him, he said. The one thing...
Former Montana GOP governor Marc Racicot voting for Biden
BILLINGS Mont. (AP) — A former Montana governor and Republican National Committee chair said he will vote for Democrat Joe Biden in the November election, citing character flaws in President Donald Trump. Marc Racicot made the statement during an interview Tuesday on Yellowstone Public Radio with Home...
Trump to far-right extremists: 'Stand back and stand by'
President Donald Trump on Tuesday didn’t condemn white supremacist groups and their role in violence in some American cities this summer, branding it solely a “left-wing” problem and telling one far-right extremist group to “stand back and stand by.” “Almost everything I...
Debate commission says it will make changes to format
NEW YORK (AP) — The presidential debate commission says it will soon adopt changes to its format to avoid a repeat of the disjointed first meeting between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden. The commission said Wednesday the debate “made clear that additional structure should be added to...
Editorial Roundup: North Carolina
Recent editorials from North Carolina newspapers: ___ Sept. 29 The Greensboro News & Record on former President George H.W. Bush's election loss in 1992: Having lost a tough election in 1992 to Democrat Bill Clinton, President George Herbert Walker Bush, who had seemed unbeatable after the first Persian Gulf...
Brazil president calls Biden's Amazon comments 'disastrous'
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday attacked U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden for saying that the South American nation should suffer “significant economic consequences” if devastation of the Amazon rainforest continues. Biden said during...
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