Welcome to your daily update leading up to the US presidential election on November 3rd. With thirteen days to go, we look at Donald Trump’s dissatisfaction with the lack of investigations into his opponent and dive into the treasuries of both camps.
Trump wants Justice to target the Bidens
President Trump put pressure on his justice minister, William Barr, on Tuesday. During an interview with his favorite television show, Fox and Friends, said the president that Barr should open an investigation into an unconfirmed tabloid newspaper story The New York Post about the business practices of Joe Bidens son Hunter. “This is major corruption and we need to know more about it before the election,” Trump said.
It is uncommon for a president to openly urge a member of his cabinet to investigate the dealings and conduct of family members of a political opponent.
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows later in the day tried to take the sting out of his boss’s comments and temper expectations on the Republican side. He said in one interview with a conservative radio station he has spoken to Trump about hiring a special prosecutor for an independent investigation into the allegations against the Bidens.
“There is something in it,” said Meadows. “It’s not right at the top of our priority list in these last thirteen days, but looking at this, we think a special prosecutor might be the best way to do this. Not that anything will come out before November 3, and we have to. so don’t tell your listeners. “
Trump also expressed annoyance at Barr earlier this month. That involved an investigation by the Justice Department into the administration of his predecessor, Barack Obama. According to Trump, Obama and then Vice President Biden were guilty of crimes surrounding an FBI investigation into the Trump campaign in 2016. Barr let senior Republicans earlier this month know that the ongoing investigation will not be completed before November 3.
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Image from a campaign spot by Joe Biden. (Photo: ANP)
Bidens financial catch-up
Joe Biden began his campaign in March with a campaign cash that contained more than $ 100 million less in instant money than Donald Trump’s. A sitting president typically has an advantage in raising funds, and Trump’s campaign machine (described by then campaign manager Brad Parscale as the ‘Death Star’) was already running at full speed when the Democrats didn’t know who their candidate would be.
Just over six months later, things are very different, writes among others Politico. Team-Biden brought in an astonishing $ 282 million in September, of which 177 million could be spent by early October. Team Trump raised $ 81 million and had 63 million this month – almost three times less than the Democrats. That is a historically significant difference.
The money mainly goes to advertisements. Biden spent $ 173 million on TV commercials in September, versus Trump’s $ 69 million. In three major swing states – Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – the Democrat spends about four times more on TV ads than the Republican. The president said in the same month that he was considering putting $ 100 million of his own money into his campaign, but he has not yet done so.
Further…
Since the beginning of this year, over 299,000 more people have died in the United States than the average for the five previous years, reported the US CDC Health Institute Tuesday. According to the researchers, the figures show that the impact of the corona pandemic is greater than previously thought. The official death toll as a result of the virus in the US is now more than 216,000.
The pandemic is the main theme during the elections. According to polls Almost 65 percent of Americans are concerned about contamination with the virus and 86 percent about the economic impact of the crisis.
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