Sean Hannity asked President Donald Trump if he'd tested negative yet for Coronavirus, and the President refused to answer, instead leading Hannity on a segue on the experiemental drugs he's been treated with
Trump, who has Covid, says, "I think I'm going to try doing a rally on Saturday night if we can, if we have enough time to put it together, but we want to do a rally in Florida, probably in FL on Saturday night, might come back and do one in Pennsylvania, on the following night.”
To his credit, Hannity presses Trump on if he's still testing positive for Coronavirus-- Trump again doesn't answer, says, "the test will be tomorrow, and the actual test, because there's no reason to test all the time, but they found very little infection or virus, if any."
Trump says Virginia Governor Ralph Northam "executed a baby." (Virginia Governor Ralph Northam did not execute a baby)
I want to reiterate, the president, who will not answer as to whether or not he's actively sheddng a virus that's killed nearly 210K Americans, wants to hold a rally on Saturday in Florida.
The president now talking about fish in California, "that aren't doing very well without water."
The president, talking absentee ballots, is overcome with coughing, says "Excuse me," continues.
Trump, unprompted, hits Gov. Gretchen Whitmer following a kidnapping plot aimed at abducting her was foiled, telling Hannity, "today she's complaining, but it was our Justice Department that arrested the people...it was my Justice Department that arrested them."
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And we’re inside the debate venue at U of U’s Kingsbury Hall— guests, wearing masks provided at the door, have tested negative for Covid in the last 72 hours and had their temperatures checked before entry— they’re assigned seats socially distanced throughout the auditorium.
Also observing Covid-mitigation practices: reporters! We’ve also had our temperatures taken, and tested negative for Covid before admission— rockstar correspondents @ryanobles and @KyungLahCNN are separated by a plexiglass barrier, while @linh_tran and I produce from the wings.
The preprogram of the debate has started with a stern warning from the commission here at the U of U, who tells members of the audience, “You were told when you entered here to put your mask on…if you do not put your mask on, you will be advised that your ticket is canceled.”
The scene here in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where President Donald Trump will rally supporters tonight. 64° and overcast.
Lots of “Run, Forest, Run,” signage outside of Donald Trump’s Fayetteville, NC rally for Dan Forest’s gubernatorial campaign. Forest spoke before Trump last week in Winston-Salem.
A protester briefly held up a sign here at Donald Trump’s Fayetteville, NC rally, before he was escorted out by security.
Kicking off remarks in Henderson, NV, Donald Trump tells supporters at an indoor rally, "51 days from now we're going to win Nevada, and we're going to win four more years, and after we win for more years, we ask for maybe another four or so."
Trump hits Biden on mental acuity, before praising Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un, who he says are "very sharp."
"Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong Un doesn't know about the problems that Joe has. We need very sharp people, I'm sorry, Joe is not qualified for this position."
It appears a demonstrator has interrupted the President Donald Trump's remarks in Henderson, Nevada, prompting the president to tell security to "get him out of here." Supporters chanting "All lives matter" at the protester.
President Donald Trump held another telerally tonight, this time with Iowans, on his Facebook page, apparently:
President Donald Trump, on Space Force: "You all know about it, it's ultimately going to be, maybe one of the most important, just all about space, and it's going to be one of the most, but we had to make sure that we stay ahead of Russia, China and many other countries."
Trump, who canceled the RNC in FL over the pandemic, hits Biden for not campaigning: "You have Biden, comes out of the basement, says crazy things, & then goes back into the basement, he ends up going usually to Delaware, where he comes from, & then he doesn't travel the country"
On a reporter call, Katie Porter calls it "an absolute failure of leadership to send kids & teachers back into the classroom w/o so much as a sticky note checklist on how we keep them safe much less a detailed plan," notes she's the only single mom w/ young children in Congress
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms says, "As a mother of 4 children, I do not trust this president with their lives." Says reopening schools exposes teachers to "children who are asymptomatic who may unintentionally infect those who don't have the ability to ward off this virus."
Lance Bottoms recounts her husband's fight, who she says was in good health, with Covid-19: "To watch this virus take him to his knees was nothing short of astonishing. This is what our workers in our school face when we send our children back to school."
Last night, President Donald Trump, citing the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, held a telephonic town hall for the first time, telling supporters in Wisconsin, "until that gets solved it's going to be tough to have those big massive rallies, so I'm doing telephonic rallies."
In a stunning, bald-faced dog-whistle to white suburban voters, Trump warned that Joe Biden "wants to hurt the suburbs...bringing who knows into your suburbs, so your communities will be unsafe and your housing values will go down."
Trump repeated unsupported claims that Vice President Joe Biden will "defund your police, abolish probably your police," and warned, they're indoctrinating our children with hate... we want to indoctrinate them with a great history of our country and the heroes of our country."