While a Democratic victory in Tuesday’s presidential election could give stocks a temporary boost, market strategists say Wall Street will likely be happier with more of what Republicans have delivered.
A Joe Biden win could boost share prices in the short term given that he’s likely to champion a big stimulus package to address the raging coronavirus pandemic.
But a Democratic sweep would likely spark a selloff further down the line as elites try to cash in before Biden ushers in higher taxes for the rich and stricter regulations, experts say.
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Shutting down law enforcement’s ability to communicate leaves the public more vulnerable to ‘threat actors’
On the eve of U.S. elections, where candidates have significant differences on U.S. immigration policy, Twitter censorship shut down the account of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan.
“Michael Trujillo, a veteran Democratic operative, blamed his party’s choice to knock on doors only in October due to the pandemic, saying ‘I think the data and the evidence was there that they needed more engagement at the door.’
Other activists have brought up the fact that Democrats pushed to vote by mail throughout the campaign, due to the pandemic, and only revised their message to voters in the past few days by forcing them to instead vote in person or hand-deliver their ballots.
On Oct. 16, the same day a teenage jihadist decapitated French school teacher Samuel Paty in a Paris suburb, The New York Times published an article about the attack under the headline: “French Police Shoot and Kill Man After a Fatal Knife Attack on the Street.”
Headlines don’t have the same weight as calculated editorial statements but they reflect a publication’s instincts.
“How ‘widespread’ does election fraud have to be before it should be taken seriously?
I doubt the voters of the 9th Congressional District share that attitude, or voters of Paterson, NJ, where a new municipal election recently was ordered due to absentee ballot fraud that tainted the results.
A federal judge named Joe Biden as a possible “witness” along with his son Hunter in a criminal fraud case last year that ended in the convictions of two of Hunter’s business partners, according to little-noticed court documents.
The Democratic presidential candidate’s appearance on a witness list casts new doubt on his claims he knew nothing about his son’s shady business dealings.