WASHINGTON, DC – A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Postal Service to have postal inspectors sweep processing facilities in multiple battleground states, including Texas, for election mail. The order mandated the sweeping process so that no mail-in ballots currently in processing centers go undelivered. The move comes after USPS delivery performance dropped five straight
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Police Department has put up security barricades around its regional command centers on Election Day as part of what appears to be precautions against election-related unrest. “We have contingency plans in place for any major incidents and are prepared to respond accordingly,” said Sgt. Enrique Carrillo, an EPPD
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WASHINGTON, DC — After a campaign marked by rancor and fear, Americans on Tuesday are deciding between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, selecting a leader to steer a nation battered by a surging pandemic that has killed more than 231,000 people, cost millions their jobs and reshaped daily life. Nearly 100 million Americans voted early, and
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas was unusually shaky ground for Republicans on Tuesday as a record surge of voters in America’s biggest red state, typically among the worst for turnout in the U.S., lined up to decide the most unpredictable election here in decades. The high stakes in Texas rippled beyond whether President Donald Trump was genuinely at
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Election Day voting was underway Tuesday in New Mexico where Democrats were striving to maintain control of the state’s delegation to the U.S. Senate and hand Joe Biden a presidential victory, while Republicans are trying to flip a Senate seat and change the course of statewide politics. Polls were to remain open
Continue ReadingDIXVILLE NOTCH, New Hampshire — Former Vice President Joe Biden took all five of the votes cast for president in Dixville Notch, a tiny New Hampshire township along the U.S.-Canada border that the first places in the country to make its presidential preference known. The ballots were cast in the minutes after midnight, becoming the
Continue ReadingPITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — In the closing hours of a campaign shadowed by a once-in-a-century pandemic, President Donald Trump charged across the nation Monday delivering an incendiary but unsupported allegation that the election is rigged, while Democratic challenger Joe Biden pushed to claim states once seen as safely Republican. America stood at a crossroads. Never before
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STANFORD, California — A study conducted by Stanford University estimates that campaign rallies held by President Donald Trump likely caused 30,000 Covid-19 infections, resulting in 700 deaths. According to the study outlined in the New York Times on Monday, these cases were not specifically from rally attendees – which means that attendees could have spread
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Barack Obama called game. The former President showed he can still get buckets, swishing a corner three-pointer at a Flint, Michigan, gym on Saturday while on the campaign trail for Joe Biden, his former vice president. “That’s what I do,” Obama yells after nailing the three, before lowering his “VOTE” mask and yelling again, “That’s
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EL PASO, Texas — Early voting came to a close on Friday and El Pasoans and Texans came out in droves. More than 9 million Texans — 53% of all registered voters — cast ballots during early voting. That’s more than the overall votes for the entire election four years ago, according to an Associated Press
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McALLEN, Texas — Texas’ surprising status as a battleground came into clearer focus on Friday as Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris devoted one of the race’s final days to campaigning across America’s largest red state and early voter turnout zoomed past 9 million — already more than the total number of ballots cast during
Continue ReadingJoe Biden is pledging that if he’s elected president, he will sign an executive order to form a task force that will focus on reuniting the 545 immigrant children who’ve been separated from their families. The pledge was mentioned in a digital ad the campaign has started airing in the key states of Arizona, Florida,
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WASHINGTON, DC — After two contentious debates and more than $1.5 billion in advertising, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden enter the closing week of a bitter campaign with their favorability ratings relatively unchanged since at least the summer, according to an ABC News/Ipsos poll released Sunday. Trump’s favorability is significantly underwater
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Poll of the week: A new Muhlenberg College/Morning Call poll of likely Pennsylvania voters finds former Vice President Joe Biden at 51% to President Donald Trump’s 44%. The average Pennsylvania poll puts Biden up by a similar margin. What’s the point: Almost every article on this election starts with a phrase resembling “Biden is the
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WASHINGTON, DC — A spokesman says Vice President Mike Pence will continue with his aggressive campaign schedule after his chief of staff, Marc Short, tested positive for the coronavirus Saturday. Pence spokesman Devin O’Malley says Pence and his wife, Karen Pence, both tested negative for the virus on Saturday and remain in good health. Short
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LIVE BLOG: Key exchanges in the final presidential debateFACT CHECK: Examining the candidates debate claimsPOLL: 53% of debate watchers think Biden won NASHVILLE, Tennessee — President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden fought over how to tame the raging coronavirus in Thursday’s final 2020 debate, largely shelving the rancor that overshadowed their previous face-off
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — Russia and Iran have both obtained U.S. voting registration information aiming to interfere in the 2020 election, the government’s national intelligence director said at a rare news conference Wednesday evening. John Ratcliffe, the intelligence director, and FBI Director Chris Wray say the U.S. will “impose costs and consequences” on any foreign interference.
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — A naked man dubbed the “birthday suit sign bandit” was caught on camera stealing a Biden/Harris campaign sign from an Albuquerque resident’s front yard over the weekend, KOB-TV reports. Video footage from the homeowner’s security camera shows the naked man walk up from the darkness, snatch the sign out of the
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WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden will have their microphones cut off in Thursday’s debate while their rival delivers their opening two-minute answer to each of the debate topics. The 90-minute debate is divided into six 15-minute segments, with each candidate granted two minutes to deliver uninterrupted remarks before proceeding to
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Roughly 20%, or one out of five, of all registered voters in El Paso County cast ballots during the just-concluded first week of early voting in Texas, according to newly-released data by the county elections department. In a tweet Sunday evening, the department said there were 101,993 total in-person and by-mail
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MACON, Georgia — President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden went on offense this weekend, with each campaigning in states they are trying to flip during the Nov. 3 election that is just over two weeks away. At a rally in Macon, Trump suggested he may have to “leave the country” if he were
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WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi detailed Sunday the deadline she gave the president’s coronavirus relief package negotiators if they are going to pass the legislation before the election. On ABC’s “This Week,” Pelosi explained that a agreement needs to be reached in the next 48 hours in order for a stimulus bill to be signed by
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(Editor’s note: You can watch the ABC News town hall with Joe Biden in its entirety in the video player above.) PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Democrat Joe Biden and President Donald Trump squared off, in a way, Thursday evening, their scuttled second debate replaced by dueling televised town halls. Biden on ABC and Trump on NBC
Continue ReadingWILMINGTON, Delaware — A third person tied to Joe Biden’s campaign has tested positive for the coronavirus. The news comes as Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris, paused her in-person campaigning after finding out two others, one of her staffers and a crew member on her flight to Arizona last week, tested positive for the virus. Both
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WILMINGTON, Delaware — U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California has tested negative for the coronavirus. It comes the same day she canceled travel for several days after two people involved with the Democratic presidential campaign tested positive. The campaign says both Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, tested negative for the virus Thursday. Harris, Joe
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — The first day of early voting in Texas saw a record high turnout in El Paso, but relatively few glitches as voters surged to polling places despite the coronavirus pandemic. Tuesday kicked off a high-stakes Texas election that has Republicans battling to maintain their dominance statewide in a raft of down-ballot
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — As the latest poll in Texas shows the presidential race tight, Democratic nominee Joe Biden sent his wife to the Lone Star state to campaign on the first day of early voting. As the first ballots were being cast on Tuesday, Jill Biden visited El Paso along with two other Texas
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THE VILLAGES, Florida — Sara Branscome’s golf cart whizzed down the smooth asphalt path that winds through The Villages, the nation’s largest retirement community, an expanse of beautiful homes, shops and entertainment venues that bills itself as “Florida’s Friendliest Hometown.” Branscome’s cart was festooned with two American flags that flapped in the warm afternoon breeze.
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WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump’s White House doctor says Trump has tested negative for Covid-19 on consecutive days using a newer rapid test from Abbott laboratories. The assessment from Navy Cmdr. Sean Conley comes as Trump is traveling to Sanford, Florida, to headline his first campaign rally Monday since becoming infected with the coronavirus.
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WASHINGTON, DC — Dr. Anthony Fauci did not consent to being featured in a new advertisement from the Trump campaign touting President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert said his words were taken out of context. “In my nearly five decades of public service, I have never
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