Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
On last day, Trump and Biden scour battleground states for votes
By Steve Holland and Trevor Hunnicutt OPA-LOCKA, Fla./WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will hunt for support in four battleground states on Monday while Democratic rival Joe Bi...
Nov 02, 2020
Trump suggests he might try to fire Fauci post-election
OPA-LOCKA, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump suggested early on Monday that he might seek to fire a highly respected member of his coronavirus task force, Anthony Fauci, after Fauci further...
Nov 01, 2020
U.S. judge orders USPS to reinforce ‘extraordinary measures’ ballot delivery policy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) must remind senior managers they must follow its "extraordinary measures" policy and use its Express Mail Network to expedite ballots ahead of Tue...
Nov 01, 2020
Democrat Gary Peters maintains lead in Michigan U.S. Senate race: Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Chris Kahn (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. Senator Gary Peters of Michigan leads his Republican challenger, John James, by seven points with days to go before an election that will determine which part...
Nov 01, 2020
Texan Republicans lose bid to halt drive-through voting but fight continues
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - A group of Texas Republicans have lost one of two legal challenges they brought in the hope of halting drive-through voting in Houston and having more than 120,000 votes throw...
Nov 01, 2020
Days before U.S. election, Biden’s lead widens in Rust Belt: Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Chris Kahn (Reuters) - Democrat Joe Biden's lead over U.S. President Donald Trump has widened a little in the final days of the 2020 campaign in three critical Rust Belt states that Trump narrowly ...
Nov 01, 2020
U.S. coronavirus cases keep rising in grim march to Election Day
By Doina Chiacu and Susan Cornwell (Reuters) - Coronavirus cases continued their grim climb in the United States on Sunday with Midwestern states experiencing record hospitalizations, as increasingly ...
Nov 01, 2020
Explainer: Are Trump’s rallies spreading coronavirus? Why it’s hard to know the full impact
By Julie Steenhuysen and Carl O'Donnell (Reuters) - Stanford University economists estimate that President Donald Trump's campaign rallies have resulted in 30,000 additional confirmed cases of COVID-1...
Nov 01, 2020
In George Floyd’s hometown, a season of protest ends at the polls
By Brad Brooks HOUSTON (Reuters) - Dexter Faircloth stalked the streets of Houston's Third Ward, the historic Black neighborhood where he was born and raised, shouting greetings and asking an urgent q...
Nov 01, 2020
Cuba has big stake in U.S. election after Trump’s trashing of detente
By Nelson Acosta and Sarah Marsh HAVANA (Reuters) - Pensioner Esperanza Chacn, 89, prays every day for Donald Trump to lose the U.S. presidential election. Like many Cubans, her livelihood has been th...
Nov 01, 2020
