President Trump and rival Biden are down to the final full week of campaigning before #Election2020, as surging coronavirus cases and an outbreak within Vice President Pence’s staff keep the race’s focus on the pandemic reut.rs/3mr9nXY
✉️ The latest on the fight over mail-in voting:
Trump’s campaign again asked the Supreme Court to block North Carolina’s plan for counting absentee ballots that arrive after #ElectionDayreut.rs/2HA1ctQ
The Republican-controlled Senate is expected to confirm President Trump’s nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, as the next justice to the Supreme Court in a move that will tilt the country’s highest court reut.rs/2HBCFnX
More than 4️⃣/🔟 supporters of both Trump and Biden said they wouldn’t accept the #Election2020 result if their preferred candidate loses, @Reuters/Ipsos poll found reut.rs/3kyFlB6
The Kremlin said that Biden’s assessment of 🇷🇺 Russia as the biggest threat to U.S. national security was wrong and encouraged hatred of Russia reut.rs/3ou4Fun
The majority of the Senate, led by Republicans, votes to confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett
Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation cements one of the most right-leaning Supreme Court rosters in generations — and hands Trump a major political victory eight days before the election reut.rs/3mmG5tN
Question 2: What's your estimate for the increased margin of fraud in this election?
‘I honestly think we’ll see little increased voter fraud in this election, largely because there was very little to begin with,’ explains @erin_gsreut.rs/35DafCm
🔊 7 days until #Election2020: Here's what you need to know about the campaign trail, right now
With just one week until #Election2020, here are 4️⃣ stories to keep you updated in the lead-up to #ElectionDay
1️⃣ Wall Street banks and their employees have been leaning left in recent years, increasing the proportion of cash allocated to Democrats reut.rs/37K9Q3z
2️⃣ The Rust Belt boom that wasn’t: Heartland job growth lagged under Trump reut.rs/2HH3mY5
🇯🇵 From #WiderImage: Shodai Horiren got her first tattoo as a lark on a trip to Australia nearly three decades ago. Now, tattooed head to foot, even on her shaven scalp, she is one of Japan’s most renowned traditional tattoo artists reut.rs/3kz6iVw 1/6
Horiren belongs to a proud, growing tribe of Japanese ink aficionados who defy deeply-rooted taboos associating tattoos with crime, turning their skin into vivid palettes of color with elaborate full-body designs, often featuring characters from traditional legends 2/6
Banned from spas, hot spring resorts, some beaches and many gyms and pools, these enthusiasts hope the presence of tattooed foreign athletes at last year’s Rugby World Cup will help sweep away suspicion 3/6
The story of a Georgia jail reveals the hidden cost of privatized inmate healthcare (thread) reut.rs/2J7utMV
In April 2014, Matthew Loflin died from a treatable heart condition while awaiting trial at Savannah’s Chatham County Detention Center. Corizon, the private company that managed health care there, opposed his hospitalization, court records show.
That same year, Sheena Burton was arrested for missing court on a traffic charge. While detained at the Savannah jail, she did not receive her psychiatric medication and became violent.
The #election2020 could be the most closely contested in recent memory due to a deeply divided electorate and the possibility that President Trump will challenge widely used mail-in ballots. Here's an explainer on 'dueling electors' reut.rs/341ceRl 👇 1/6
What are electors?
The president is selected by 538 electors, known as the electoral college. Electors are apportioned among the states based on population and the popular vote in each state typically determines which candidate receives that state’s electors 2/6
What are dueling electors?
States with close contests between Trump and his Biden could produce competing slates of electors, one certified by the governors and the other by the legislature. The risk of this happening is heightened in the battleground states 3/6