
Trump has again defended the supporters who surrounded Biden’s campaign bus, saying that they ‘escorted’ the bus:
Daniel Dale
(@ddale8)Trump again defending his supporters who surrounded the moving Biden campaign bus: “They escorted the bus. And the radical left said ‘oh what a horrible thing that is, to escort the bus.'” He says they’re just people with an American flag and a Trump flag.
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Crowd chants ‘Fire Fauci!’ and Trump responds ‘let me wait ’til a little bit after the election’
As trump criticised the US top infectious diseases expert Dr Anthony Fauci, the crowd began to chant, “Fire Fauci! Fire Fauci!”.
Trump responded: “Don’t tell anybody, but let me wait ‘til a little bit after the election, please. I appreciate the advice.”
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Trump just said “we could tay here all night.”
“I could stay here and tell you stories all night,” he continues.
Trump breaks curfew at rally in Miami-Dade county
Trump is speaking past a coronavirus cufew intended to mitigate infections as a Standofrd University study shows his campaign rallies may have led to 30,000 additional confirmed cases of Covid-19, and likely resulted in more than 700 deaths overall.
The new research analyzed data following 18 Trump rallies held between 20 June and 22 September.
Aaron Rupar
(@atrupar)This rally, which flies in the face of Miami-Dade’s attempt to impose a Covid curfew, comes days after a study linked Trump’s pandemic rallies with 700 coronavirus deaths pic.twitter.com/9QBSGPt48G
Trump and is supporters are now officially out after the Miami-Dade curfew cutoff of midnight.
Trump hasn’t mentioned it, but he has just said, “Is there any place you’d rather be than at a Trump rally?”
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“Biden is a globalist who spent four years… sacrificing American blood and treasure in endless foreign wars,” says Trump.
He goes on to stress that he is “an outsider”.
“If I don’t sound like a typical Washington politician it’s because I’m not a politician,” he says.
Trump has taken the stage with seven minutes left to the county curfew:
Oliver Laughland
(@oliverlaughland)“I hope life is good. I hope everything is good,” Trump says. As the crowd chants “we love you!” pic.twitter.com/E1qY6JnTF6
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Back to Miami – there are just ten minutes left before Miami-Dade’s coronavirus curfew comes into effect.
The county (the same one in which Trump is due to speak any moment) has a countywide curfew from midnight to 6am every day as a precaution against coronavirus infections.
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Here is that clip from earlier on Sunday, when Trump said he’s preparing for legal challenges to the counting of mail and absentee votes in Pennsylvania.
Speaking to reporters in Charlotte ahead of a rally in Hickory, North Carolina, Trump said, “We’re going in the night of – as soon as the election is over – we’re going in with our lawyers.” Trump has repeatedly attacked the Supreme Court in recent days for not blocking the counting of late arriving ballots for days after election day:
Trump says he’s ‘going in with our lawyers’ as soon as the election is over – video
Trump is preparing to land in Miami. As we wait for him to take the stage, here is more on the incredible early voting figures. 8% more Texans have already voted this year than the total last year.
According to the latest YouGov poll, Trump leads by 2% in Texas:
Helen Sullivan
(@helenrsullivan)Wow. The early vote in Texas is already more than 108% of the total 2016 turnout: https://t.co/KcEYQZmlOb
More on Texans voting early from our story last week:
The numbers are propelling what is historically one of the lowest voter turnout states to the top of the nation’s leaderboard in terms of the sheer number of people who have voted thus far. That groundswell of participation is even more striking in context, as democratic hurdles remain ever-present at the polls while fears of Covid-19 also loom large:
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Here useful thread on the timing of the election for Australians – the complete thread can be found on Twitter.
Matt Bevan 🎙
(@MatthewBevan)Ok the number one question people are asking me (and everyone who follows this) is when on Wednesday are things happening… so here you go – all times are Canberra/Melbourne/Sydney time.
10am – First states close. Indiana and Kentucky. Don’t even look up from your laptop.