Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
U.S. surpasses 95 million early ballots on eve of Election Day
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 95 million Americans had cast their votes in the 2020 presidential election by Monday, according to a tally by the U.S. Elections Project at the University of Florida,...
Nov 02, 2020
Factbox: What a second Trump term would mean for U.S. financial policy
By Pete Schroeder and Michelle Price WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A victory by U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday would continue his administration's four-year deregulatory streak, which has delivered a...
Nov 02, 2020
Factbox: What a Joe Biden win could mean for financial policy
By Pete Schroeder and Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is unlikely to prioritize a financial industry crackdown if he wins on Tuesday, he is expec...
Nov 02, 2020
Trump or Biden? Billions of dollars at stake as betters lay money down
By Thyagaraju Adinarayan LONDON (Reuters) - The 2020 U.S. election is shaping up to be the biggest betting event of all time, with one player placing a record-breaking one million-pound bet on a victo...
Nov 02, 2020
Explainer: U.S. election lingo, from naked ballots to a red mirage
By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - Every U.S. presidential election has its own lingo, like the "hanging chads" on voting cards in Florida that led to a landmark court battle in 2000. Below is s...
Nov 02, 2020
Polarized electorate, mail-in ballots could spark post-election legal ‘fight of our lives’
By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Del (Reuters) - Tuesday's U.S. presidential election has all the ingredients for a drawn-out court battle over its outcome: a highly polarized electorate, a record number of ma...
Nov 02, 2020
2020 U.S. ELECTION: What you need to know right now
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump hunts for support in four battleground states while Democratic rival Joe Biden focuses on Pennsylvania and Ohio during the final day of campaigning in their rac...
Nov 02, 2020
Explainer: Can Trump call in troops to quell Election Day unrest?
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - There have been pockets of unrest in battleground states ahead of the showdown between President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, in Tuesday's election. ...
Nov 02, 2020
‘You are no longer my mother’: A divided America will struggle to heal after Trump era
By Tim Reid, Gabriella Borter and Michael Martina LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When lifelong Democrat Mayra Gomez told her 21-year-old son five months ago that she was voting for Donald Trump in Tuesday's ...
Nov 02, 2020
U.S. judge weighs bid to void 127,000 votes cast at drive-through sites in Texas
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - A federal judge in Texas will consider on Monday whether Houston officials should throw out about 127,000 votes already cast at drive-through voting sites in the Democratic-le...
Nov 02, 2020
