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- President Trump’s disapproval rating has soared to an all-time high, the latest sign that Americans’ dissatisfaction with the president’s handling of national crises is mounting. At least 58 percent of Americans disapprove of the job he’s doing in the White House.
- The Supreme Court declined Friday to force Texas officials to offer mail-in ballots to all voters in the state because of the threat of the coronavirus, not just those over 65.
- A look at six core battleground states shows the RealClearPolitics average of polls Biden leading Trump by 6 points or more in Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. The race is much closer in North Carolina and Arizona. Trump won all six states in 2016.
- Trump’s campaign is spending money defending Iowa and Ohio, two states that weren’t on anyone’s radar at the beginning of the cycle. Biden has pulled even with Trump in both states, despite not allocating many resources there.
- President Trump Tweeted: “Corrupt Joe Biden said yesterday that we have over “120 million” people dead of Coronavirus!” in reference to the former VP mispeaking. Biden immediately corrected himself.
- Former Vice President Joe Biden bashed President Trump for not sanctioning Russia after the New York Times reported that he was allegedly briefed on American intelligence findings that Russian military operatives reportedly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill coalition forces in Afghanistan, including US troops, amid peace talks.
“Not only has he failed to sanction or impose any kind of consequences on Russia for this egregious violation of international law, Donald Trump has continued his embarrassing campaign of deference and debasing himself before Vladimir Putin,” Biden said.
The newspaper’s reporting resulted in a renewed push among lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to sanction Russia.
Biden said he was “outraged” by the Times report and said that Trump’s “entire presence has been a gift to Putin.”
- The Rolling Stones are taking “further steps” to prevent Donald Trump from using their music at his rallies after the president’s campaign ignored the previous cease-and-desist letters. “This could be the last time Trump uses any Jagger/ Richards songs on his campaigns,” the band’s rep said in a statement.
In a statement Saturday, the band announced that their legal team and performing rights organization BMI sent another warning to Trump’s campaign that, if the president continued to use the band’s music, he could face a lawsuit.
Sources: ABC News, Axios, Bloomberg, CBS News, CNN, Financial Times, Fox News,The Hill, NBC News, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, NJ.com, NPR, NY Times, Politico, Reuters, Salon, Slate, Vanity Fair, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post
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