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2 Nov, 14 tweets, 8 min read
🔊 Tomorrow is #ElectionDay. Here's what you need to know right now reut.rs/34jUgcH
President Donald Trump hunts for support in four battleground states while Democratic rival Joe Biden focuses on Pennsylvania and Ohio during the final day of campaigning in their race for the White House reut.rs/3ejxW6s
A federal judge in Texas will consider whether Houston officials should throw out about 127,000 votes already cast at drive-through voting sites in the Democratic-leaning area reut.rs/326Efp3
#Election2020 has all the ingredients for a drawn-out court battle over its outcome: a highly polarized electorate, a record number of mail-in ballots and some Supreme Court justices who appear ready to step in if there is a closely contested race reut.rs/2GjBsBe
How the election is dividing American families: When lifelong Democrat Mayra Gomez told her 21-year-old son five months ago she was voting for Trump, he cut her out of his life reut.rs/3kTrkhF
In George Floyd’s hometown of Houston, a season of protest ends at the polls. The summer’s simmering anger and demands for justice that Floyd’s death ignited have transformed into huge voter turnout for Black Americans in some parts of the country reut.rs/3oNokpx
Every U.S. presidential election has its own lingo, like the 'hanging chads' on voting cards in Florida that led to a landmark court battle in 2000. Here's a look at some of the jargon used in the days leading up to #Election2020 reut.rs/387wSBB
There have been pockets of unrest in battleground states ahead of the showdown between Trump and Biden, in Tuesday’s election. Here's a look at laws that give Trump authority in this area, and the limitations on his power reut.rs/327dlxl
More than 95 million Americans have cast their votes before #ElectionDay, according to a tally by the U.S. Elections Project at the University of Florida, a harbinger of what is expected to be the highest turnout of modern times reut.rs/327Varv
Judge rejects bid by Republicans to throw out 127,000 ballots cast in drive-through voting in Harris County, home to Democratic-leaning Houston. Live #Election2020 updates: reut.rs/34jUgcH

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2 Nov
How the election is dividing American families: When lifelong Democrat Mayra Gomez told her 21-year-old son five months ago that she was voting for Donald Trump in #Election2020, he cut her out of his life reut.rs/3mJGCWJ
'There are people not talking to me anymore, and I’m not sure that will change,' said Gomez, who is a fan of Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigrants and handling of the economy
A September report by the non-partisan Pew Research Center found that nearly 80% of Trump and Biden supporters said they had few or no friends who supported the other candidate
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31 Oct
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England imposes new national lockdown to combat COVID-19 resurgence reut.rs/2HRc2LS
Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered England back into a national lockdown after the United Kingdom passed the milestone of 1 million COVID-19 cases and a second wave of infections threatened to overwhelm the health service reut.rs/2Jq721u Image
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29 Oct
Here's a look at how the U.S. early vote surge is shaping the campaigns of Donald Trump and Joe Biden ahead of #ElectionDay reut.rs/34FDTaS 1/6
Democrats say their advantage in early voting has allowed Biden’s presidential campaign to sharpen its get-out-the-vote operation by targeting a smaller universe of potential supporters, while Republicans brace for an all-or-nothing scramble to turn out votes for Trump 2/6
Early voting, both by mail and in-person, has surged to record highs, with Americans energized by a high-stakes election while also worried about crowded polling places amid the coronavirus pandemic 3/6
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29 Oct
🔊 5 days until #Election2020: Here's what you need to know about the campaign trail, right now reut.rs/35Fd1a6
Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden will both rally supporters in the critical battleground state of Florida – campaigning in the same city hours apart and putting on full display their differing approaches to the resurgent coronavirus pandemic reut.rs/35NgNyj
Trump held a pair of in-person campaign rallies in Arizona on Wednesday despite a surge in COVID-19 cases in the U.S. and criticism he is prioritizing his re-election above the health of his supporters reut.rs/37ODAfK
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28 Oct
🔊 With 6 days until #Election2020, here’s what you need to know right now reut.rs/34jUgcH
President Donald Trump holds two rallies in Arizona, where polls show him narrowly trailing rival Joe Biden, as the White House race heads into its final 6⃣ days reut.rs/3e4VBHV
The presidential election will be decided by about a dozen states that could swing for either Trump, a Republican, or Democratic challenger Biden reut.rs/37NaBsE
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Between 2009 and 2019, the analysis found, nearly 5,000 people died in jail without getting their day in court. That number subverts a fundamental tenet of the U.S. criminal justice system: innocent until proven guilty reuters.com/investigates/s…
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