https://www.huffpost.com/entry/morgan-freeman-2020-election-ad_n_5f9d1539c5b658b27c3a9e39


Morgan Freeman Spells Out Exactly What’s At Stake This Election
“Our lives quite literally depend on it,” the actor warns in a new ad for the NAACP.
By Lee Moran


Actor Morgan Freeman explains exactly what’s on the line in the 2020 election in a new ad for the NAACP.

Freeman warns — as the narrator of the spot that Rachel Maddow premiered on her MSNBC show Friday — that “our lives quite literally depend” on voting.



Maddow hailed the spot.

“It’s really good,” she said. “This is a stressful time, I know, but it is an inspiring time too, which is why this is exactly what I needed to see tonight.”

https://twitter.com/i/status/1322364325399592960

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/10/30/trump-rallies-backfire.html


Biden leads Trump in Texas and Georgia
Posted on Fri, Oct 30th, 2020 by Jason Easley
Trump’s Rallies Are Backfiring And Making Joe Biden More Popular


Trump’s multiple rallies a day aren’t helping his standing in the election, but they are keeping Joe Biden very popular.

From a new Fox News Poll released on Friday evening, “Biden has a net +11 personal rating: 55 percent view him favorably vs. 44 percent unfavorably. For Trump, 44 percent view him positively and 55 percent negatively, putting him underwater by 11 points. Moreover, 48 percent have a “strongly” unfavorable opinion of him compared to 34 percent for Biden.”

Trump has been holding rallies daily ever since he got out of the hospital with the coronavirus, but his approval rating remains stuck at 44%, which perfectly matches up with the percentage of the overall support that he gets in the Fox News Poll.

A president who is doing multiple rallies a day around the country should be seeing an improving their standing in the election, but Trump is stuck where he has been for months.

Donald Trump’s vote ceiling appears to be 42%-44%.

The big difference between 2020 and 2016 is that Joe Biden is popular. Donald Trump’s endless attacks and rallies aren’t damaging Biden’s popularity. In fact, they seem to be helping Biden.

The more Donald Trump talks, the more he denies realities of the coronavirus pandemic and reminds the majority of voters why they should not vote for him.

I wish President Biden would do this. I fear there are too many dumbasses in this country to follow any rules related to the 'rona.

https://politicalwire.com/2020/10/31/belgium-locks-down-to-keep-hospitals-from-collapse/

Belgium Locks Down to Keep Hospitals from Collapse
October 31, 2020 at 7:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

He wishes.

https://politicalwire.com/2020/10/31/trump-celebrates-low-black-voter-turnout/

Trump Celebrates Low Black Voter Turnout
October 31, 2020 at 8:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

Such a menace. How is this in any shape or form legal? We know moral and ethical are out.

https://politicalwire.com/2020/10/31/trump-rallies-likely-led-to-700-deaths/

Trump Rallies Likely Led to 700 Deaths
October 31, 2020 at 7:14 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

He's such a steaming pile.

https://politicalwire.com/2020/10/30/quote-of-the-day-2723/


Quote of the Day
October 30, 2020 at 3:14 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

https://politicalwire.com/2020/10/30/mcconnell-wont-take-up-relief-package-in-lame-duck/

McConnell Won’t Take Up Relief Package In Lame Duck
October 30, 2020 at 3:16 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

https://pressrun.media/p/america-turns-on-trump-were-not-polarized

America turns on Trump — we're not "polarized" after all
Another media myth busted
Eric Boehlert


As Trump's failed presidency limps into the final stages of its first term and he trails Joe Biden by historic margins, a key media myth is being burst right before our eyes. Instead of the deeply "polarized," bitterly divided country the press insists we have become, where every hot-button issue divides the nation by a razor-thin 51-49 margin, we're seeing swelling momentum of agreement. Poll after poll confirms the tide is moving away from Trump and away from the conservative agenda in America.

Picking up the electoral energy that was ignited during the 2018 midterm elections, a wide coalition of voters are not only opposing Trump, but are rejecting Republican initiatives across the board in large numbers. A silent majority of sorts, this partnership is often ignored by the press, which seems wed to the idea of portraying America as being impossibly divided in the age of Trump. In truth, Trump is helping to unite the country.

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This rejection of Republican ideas is across the board:



The media obsession with the "polarized" narrative over the years has helped normalize Trump's extremist behavior. So often viewed through the prism of deep partisan divide, there's a suggestion that Democrats urgently oppose Trump simply because he's a Republican, and that any Republican in the Oval Office would be viewed the same way Trump is by his political foes.

Lost in that "polarized" translation is the central fact that Trump's behavior is extreme, undemocratic, and dangerous as he spends months, for example, aggressively trying to undercut public faith in elections.

Trump hasn’t torn America in two equal halves. Most of the country still has its senses.

https://politicalwire.com/2020/10/30/coronavirus-infections-surging-in-every-swing-state/

Coronavirus Infections Surging In Every Swing State
October 30, 2020 at 8:34 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

Polls show Trump is losing ground where the coronavirus is surging
Will the latest Covid-19 wave seal Trump’s fate in the election?
By Julia Belluz@juliaoftoronto Oct 29, 2020, 2:30pm EDT


The third — and largest — coronavirus wave is hitting the US just in time for the presidential election, with surges in key Midwestern swing states. Numerous polls suggest voters may be taking their pandemic pain and panic with them to the ballot boxes in these places: President Donald Trump isn’t just down in national polls — he’s faring especially poorly in battlegrounds where infection rates are spiking.

Over the last two weeks, the coronavirus case count in Wisconsin — where Trump won by a single percentage point in 2016 — has jumped 36 percent, to an average of 4,200 new infections per day. And that’s just among the people who’ve been diagnosed. The test positivity rate in the state is a staggering 28 percent, according to Covidexitstrategy.org, and health officials have already had to transform the state fair park into a field hospital to manage the crush of new patients.

The situation is nearly as worrisome in Michigan: Cases there have risen 73 percent in the last two weeks, to 2,600 per day, while the number of Covid-19 patients in hospital has more than doubled since the end of September. It’s another swing state, which Trump won by an even tinier margin — of 0.3 — in 2016.

In these places, and the states around them, the majority of voters apparently prefer Biden. That has mostly been the state of things for some time, but is perhaps even clearer as Election Day approaches. “Biden is doing well everywhere — but his leads are even more solid in places where the coronavirus is hitting the hardest,” said Mike Greenfield, the chief executive officer of Change Research, who has been tracking the impact of the pandemic on voter decision-making.

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https://www.vox.com/2020/10/29/21539945/coronavirus-trump-biden-polls-swing-states-wisconsin