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A New York Times report into Donald Trump’s tax records has revealed he paid just $750 in federal income tax in his first year as president. Trump, who in 2016 suggested reports of tax avoidance showed he was ‘smart’, denounced the findings as ‘completely fake news’. The New York Times said that of the 18 years its reporters examined, Trump had paid no income tax at all in 11 of them.
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Joe Biden has laughed off Donald Trump’s demand that he take a drug test before the first presidential debate in Ohio on Tuesday.Chuckling when asked about the demand at a news conference on Sunday, Biden said: “He’s almost – no. I have no comment.”But the Biden campaign unloaded on Trump, saying the president apparently believed the best case for his re-election could be “made in urine”.“Vice-President Biden intends to deliver his debate answers in words,” a Biden spokesperson told Politico. “If the president thinks his best case is made in urine he can have at it.“We’d expect nothing less from Donald Trump, who pissed away the chance to protect the lives of 200,000 Americans when he didn’t make a plan to stop Covid-19.”Biden and Trump will debate on Tuesday, with Trump trailing badly in the polls and in fundraising, even as he is buffeted by scandal including a New York Times report revealing that he is hundreds of millions in debt and uses potentially fraudulent schemes to avoid paying taxes.Against such headlines, which were preceded by reports that Trump considered dead soldiers “losers” and “suckers”, and the emergence of a new sexual assault accusation, the president has been struggling to shift the focus to his opponent.Trump often casts accusations that he himself is vulnerable to, as when he accused Hillary Clinton of enabling sexual assault. At least 26 women have come forward with claims of sexual misconduct by Trump.Now Trump has repeated the same attack he used on Clinton, baselessly accusing Biden of planning to use drugs to goose his debate performance, after Trump and his campaign have attempted for months to portray Biden as a listless presence.Trump repeated the accusation at a news conference at the White House on Sunday, saying, “people say he was on performance-enhancing drugs”. He also tweeted a demand on Sunday that Biden take a drug test.In a previous false accusation against Biden, Trump allies on the right created a false controversy asserting that the former vice-president planned to skip the debate.Trump and Biden are scheduled to meet for 90 minutes at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio on Tuesday. The event will be hosted by Fox News’s Chris Wallace and is scheduled to begin at 9pm ET. More
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Republican efforts to ram through Donald Trump’s third US supreme court pick in the wake of the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg are firing up a fierce progressive backlash that some believe could actually trigger the most dramatic round of democracy reforms in America in a generation.Democratic party leaders are coming under intense pressure to use the first 100 days of a Biden administration – were Trump defeated in November – to tackle some of the most glaring deficiencies in the world’s oldest constitutional democracy.A vast array of reforms – from ending voter suppression and removing corporate money from elections, to rebalancing the US Senate and tackling the conservative stranglehold over the courts – are all up for grabs, though they are predicated on Biden winning the White House.Deirdre Schifeling, campaign director of the progressive coalition Democracy For All 2021, said that the failures of the Trump administration to contain the pandemic and the resulting economic recession, together with the president’s unprecedented attacks on voting rights, had paved the way for a potentially historic push next year if Democrats win.“Our political system has so clearly failed the people that the environment will be ripe for a big transformative package to make our government work for all of us,” she said.A massive surge in small donations to progressive and Democratic support groups following Ginsburg’s death underlined how the supreme court crisis is boosting the push for reform. Act Blue, the online fundraising channel, raised $100m in the first 36 hours since the justice passed away.Democratic organizers are hoping that such a war chest can be put to use unseating vulnerable Republican senators in states such as Maine, Colorado, Iowa and even South Carolina where the Trump acolyte Lindsey Graham is facing a tough fight. A Biden presidential victory, combined with Democrats taking control of the Senate and retaining power in the House would pave the way for potentially seismic democratic reforms.“The fight for the soul of this nation is what’s at stake in the presidential election,” said Democratic congresswoman Terri Sewell, who represents Alabama’s seventh district covering Selma in the crucible of the civil rights movement. “Joe Biden faces a monumental task in restoring faith in our democracy.” More
US elections 2020
Biden may be ahead in the polls, but key battlegrounds that the Democrats lost unexpectedly in 2016 could come through again for Trump in November. Use our simulator to build your own election night scenario
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The electoral map has shifted in 2020, amid new challenges from misinformation to mail-in ballots. Previously reliable states on both sides are now looking more competitive.
In the interactive graphic below, you decide which way these closer states will vote, and try to pave Joe Biden or Donald Trump’s path to victory.
Some states remain very likely to go to Biden or Trump because they were won by large margins in 2016, or they have voted the same way in several recent elections. Such states – ranked either a “solid” or “likely” win for either party, according to the Cook Political Report – have already been coloured in for Biden and Trump in the graphic below.
A majority of 270 electoral votes out of a total of 538 is needed to win, and the remaining states are up to you. Can you take Biden to victory? Or will Trump stay in the White House?
Choose which way the key swing states will vote and trace Biden or Trump’s potential path to victory.
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US elections 2020
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