The US broke a #COVID19 record today, more than 77K ppl are on record as Covid positive
Virus is now more broadly spread acr the US
-more critical in rural areas
More than 41K currently hospitalized, a 40% spike, putting hospitals at capacity #WearAMask nytimes.com/2020/10/23/us/…
2-"More than 41,000 people are currently hospitalized with the coronavirus in the United States, a 40 percent rise in the past month, and cooler weather that pushes more people indoors is threatening to expand the outbreak still more.
3-"At least 14 states saw more people hospitalized for the virus on a day in the past week than on any other day in the pandemic, according to the Covid Tracking Project. Seven more states are nearing their peaks.
4-"Patients are now spread more broadly across the country, with troubling hot spots from North Dakota to Kentucky.
5-"More people than ever are falling critically ill in rural areas, particularly in the Midwest and the Mountain West, where they must rely on hospitals that may have only a handful of beds.” ~NYT
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The @ProjectLincoln response to Jared & Ivanka's Covid billboard freakout is now a HEADLINE in Conservative media orgs ..
So, in case you missed it, here's what LP's attorneys said
(seriously read this!)
And #VoteThemAllOut thehill.com/homenews/admin…
2-"“You boldly predict that the result of your lawsuit ‘will doubtless be enormous compensatory and punitive damages.’ Please peddle your scare tactics elsewhere. The Lincoln Project will not be intimidated by such empty bluster .. Your clients are no longer mere Upper East Side
3-"socialites, able to sue at the slightest offense to their personal sensitivities,” Sanderson stated. “Mr. Kushner and Ms. Trump are public officials. They have been public officials since President Trump,
As her father threatened to jail his political opponent & a record breaking 83 THOUSAND were diagnosed with Covid
The incredibly vapid Ivanka Trump campaigned in Michigan ..
And talked about Ice Cream #Vote#vote#VoteBlue2020 nytimes.com/2020/10/24/us/…
2-"President Trump had just been on Fox and Friends, demanding that his attorney general ‘act’ against his opponent before the election. He had, the day before, called Joseph R. Biden Jr. a ‘criminal,’ Dr. Anthony S. Fauci a ‘disaster,’ government scientists “idiots” and members
3-"of the media “real garbage. Ivanka Trump, meanwhile, was visiting suburban Milwaukee and here for none of this. ‘I learned that the first ice cream sundae was created in this amazing state!’ the president’s older daughter and senior White House adviser said from a small stage
Biden is on @PodSaveAmerica talking about his priorities if elected.. he had a lot to say about his agenda, about Covid, jobs, the economy, infrastructure, investment spending & much more
Really good episode with @danpfeiffer & @jonlovett
here: crooked.com/podcast/joe-bi…
What Joe said:
" .. Get control of coronavirus. Without that, nothing else is going to work very well, number one. Number two: invest in the community, in real infrastructure. He’s been promising to invest in infrastructure in '17, '18, '19, '20.
2-"He hasn't done a single, solitary thing. So we’re going to invest in generating economic growth in the United States by making it and buying it. Buy it in America, made in America. He is exporting jobs overseas.
NYT today: despite Trump's great efforts to control the flow of Russia election interference info, Intel ofcls are managing to let us know that Russia is there, they are active and they are the primary bad actors
Here: nytimes.com/2020/10/22/us/…
2-"While senior Tru mp administration officials said this week that Iran has been actively interfering in the presidential election, many intelligence officials said they remained far more concerned about Russia, which in recent days has hacked into state and local computer
3-"networks in breaches that could allow Moscow broader access to American voting infrastructure. The discovery of the hacks came as American intelligence agencies, infiltrating Russian networks themselves, have pieced together details of what they believe are Russia’s plans to
So despite Trump camps word that they're registering more GOP voters than Dems are, research firm Hawkfish showing that Dems are actually the ones doing it
This is good, but the race is expected to be close, so PLEASE take everyone you know to the polls
EVERYONE must #Vote2020
3-"Democrats have opened up a yawning gap in early voting over Republicans in six of the most crucial battleground states — but that only begins to tell the story of their advantage heading into Election Day.
Per NYT:
Trump campaign has been videotaping Philly voters as they leave ballots in drop boxes & made a formal complaint to PA AG saying voters were leaving "2 or 3" at a time
So AG's office formally rebuked them for illegal voter intimidation #Vote2020 nytimes.com/2020/10/22/us/…
2-"The Trump campaign has been videotaping Philadelphia voters while they deposit their ballots in drop boxes, leading Pennsylvania’s attorney general to warn this week that the campaign’s actions fall outside of permitted poll watching practices and could amount to illegal voter
3-" intimidation. The campaign made a formal complaint to city officials on Oct. 16, saying a campaign representative had surveilled voters depositing two or three ballots at drop boxes, instead of only their own. The campaign called the conduct ‘blatant violations of the