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| Presidential debate reaction: Trump condemned over failure to criticise far-right group – live | Presidential debate reaction: Trump condemned over failure to criticise far-right group – live |
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| Biden and Trump both campaigning in swing states today in aftermath of bitter and chaotic debate | Biden and Trump both campaigning in swing states today in aftermath of bitter and chaotic debate |
| Check. Mate? | |
| When Trump blew the racist dog whistle last night around “law and order” and “suburbs” – attempting by the internal logic of his own world view to scare white voters into supporting him – Biden called him out, saying Trump “wouldn’t know a suburb unless he took a wrong turn.” | |
| “I was raised in the suburbs,” Biden said. “This is not 1950. All these dog whistles and racism don’t work any more.” | |
| A preponderance of polls indicate that voters don’t buy Trump’s pitch of himself as “your law and order president,” saying Trump made them feel less safe and Biden made them feel more safe. | |
| Trump gets called out by... the dictionary. | |
| As previously covered, Trump last night declined to condemn white supremacists and signaled armed far-right groups to be at the ready as an election approaches whose legitimacy Trump has already denied: | |
| In case your appetite for partisan acrimony has not been satisfied, former FBI director James Comey is appearing before the Republican-led Senate judiciary committee this morning to testify about the Russia investigation. | In case your appetite for partisan acrimony has not been satisfied, former FBI director James Comey is appearing before the Republican-led Senate judiciary committee this morning to testify about the Russia investigation. |
| We’ll have a live video stream for you atop the blog – just hit refresh if you don’t see it. | We’ll have a live video stream for you atop the blog – just hit refresh if you don’t see it. |
| The committee is carrying water for Trump – and taking pressure off Vladimir Putin – by weaving conspiracy theories about the origins and conduct of the Russia investigation. In this particular conservative hall of mirrors, Comey, whose Democratic sympathies run so deep that he sabotaged Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, is a villainous operator who is keeping secrets about a supposed plot to frame the president. | The committee is carrying water for Trump – and taking pressure off Vladimir Putin – by weaving conspiracy theories about the origins and conduct of the Russia investigation. In this particular conservative hall of mirrors, Comey, whose Democratic sympathies run so deep that he sabotaged Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, is a villainous operator who is keeping secrets about a supposed plot to frame the president. |
| Will Comey keep his patience, will he rise to the bait, will he once again divulge a secret that could change the presidential race? Tune in. | Will Comey keep his patience, will he rise to the bait, will he once again divulge a secret that could change the presidential race? Tune in. |
| Democrats appear to be voting by mail in battleground states at nearly double the rate of Republicans, according to a Washington Post report: | Democrats appear to be voting by mail in battleground states at nearly double the rate of Republicans, according to a Washington Post report: |
| Read the full piece here. | Read the full piece here. |
| The Fox News host Chris Wallace faced much criticism as he struggled to referee the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden on Tuesday night, writes senior political reporter Daniel Strauss: | The Fox News host Chris Wallace faced much criticism as he struggled to referee the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden on Tuesday night, writes senior political reporter Daniel Strauss: |
| Read the full piece here: | Read the full piece here: |
| From Washington bureau chief David Smith’s analysis of last night’s spectacle: “If Trump is re-elected... this dark, horrifying, unwatchable fever dream will surely be the first line of America’s obituary.” | From Washington bureau chief David Smith’s analysis of last night’s spectacle: “If Trump is re-elected... this dark, horrifying, unwatchable fever dream will surely be the first line of America’s obituary.” |
| David writes: | David writes: |
| Read the full piece here: | Read the full piece here: |
| David Corn, Washington DC Bureau Chief for Mother Jones had this to say about last night. | David Corn, Washington DC Bureau Chief for Mother Jones had this to say about last night. |
| Corn sees that as a fatal weakness for the Trump campaign. | Corn sees that as a fatal weakness for the Trump campaign. |
| Read it here: Mother Jones – At the debate, Biden and Trump showed America who they really are. That’s a win for Biden | Read it here: Mother Jones – At the debate, Biden and Trump showed America who they really are. That’s a win for Biden |
| And that is a wrap from me, Martin Belam, in London. I’ll be back tomorrow, and coming up is Tom McCarthy to guide you through the rest of the day… | And that is a wrap from me, Martin Belam, in London. I’ll be back tomorrow, and coming up is Tom McCarthy to guide you through the rest of the day… |
| Carla Hall writes for the Los Angeles Times this morning, asking: If Trump can’t disavow white supremacists, why should anyone want him as president? | Carla Hall writes for the Los Angeles Times this morning, asking: If Trump can’t disavow white supremacists, why should anyone want him as president? |
| Read it here: Los Angeles Times – If Trump can’t disavow white supremacists, why should anyone want him as president? | Read it here: Los Angeles Times – If Trump can’t disavow white supremacists, why should anyone want him as president? |
| While the media – me included – continue to dwell on last night’s debate, both Donald Trump and Joe Biden have a new day’s campaigning ahead of them. Between they will visit three states that have a key role to play in November. | While the media – me included – continue to dwell on last night’s debate, both Donald Trump and Joe Biden have a new day’s campaigning ahead of them. Between they will visit three states that have a key role to play in November. |
| Trump will spend the day in Minnesota. It is one of the few states his campaign is targeting that voted Democratic in 2016. There’s a fundraiser in the afternoon, before a rally in Duluth, reports Jarrett Renshaw fro Reuters. | Trump will spend the day in Minnesota. It is one of the few states his campaign is targeting that voted Democratic in 2016. There’s a fundraiser in the afternoon, before a rally in Duluth, reports Jarrett Renshaw fro Reuters. |
| Biden and his wife, Jill, will embark on an all-day train tour through a half-dozen cities in eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, including counties that Trump won four years ago on the strength of working-class white voters. | Biden and his wife, Jill, will embark on an all-day train tour through a half-dozen cities in eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, including counties that Trump won four years ago on the strength of working-class white voters. |
| Pennsylvania, which narrowly voted for Trump in 2016, is seen by many strategists as the most crucial of the six most competitive states that will likely decide the election outcome, which also include Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina and Wisconsin. The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll of Pennsylvania gave Biden a slight advantage there. | Pennsylvania, which narrowly voted for Trump in 2016, is seen by many strategists as the most crucial of the six most competitive states that will likely decide the election outcome, which also include Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina and Wisconsin. The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll of Pennsylvania gave Biden a slight advantage there. |
| Biden has held a modest but steady lead in national voter surveys for months, although polls in the battleground states show a closer contest. You can keep an eye on those races with our US election polls tracker. | Biden has held a modest but steady lead in national voter surveys for months, although polls in the battleground states show a closer contest. You can keep an eye on those races with our US election polls tracker. |
| Ohio, which Trump carried by 8 percentage points in his 2016 defeat of Democrat Hillary Clinton, is among the Republican-leaning states that Biden hopes to put into play in November. | Ohio, which Trump carried by 8 percentage points in his 2016 defeat of Democrat Hillary Clinton, is among the Republican-leaning states that Biden hopes to put into play in November. |
| The chances of swinging those votes gets narrower every day – already more than 1.3 million voters in 15 states have cast early ballots, according to the US elections project at the University of Florida. | The chances of swinging those votes gets narrower every day – already more than 1.3 million voters in 15 states have cast early ballots, according to the US elections project at the University of Florida. |
| Secretary of state Mike Pompeo is in Europe this week. he’s already enjoyed a couple of days in Greece, and today headed across to Italy, which he considers to be his ancestral homeland. | Secretary of state Mike Pompeo is in Europe this week. he’s already enjoyed a couple of days in Greece, and today headed across to Italy, which he considers to be his ancestral homeland. |
| Reuters have some of his words this morning, on a trip that has been marked by his criticism of the Vatican for pursuing closer ties between the Catholic church and Beijing. | Reuters have some of his words this morning, on a trip that has been marked by his criticism of the Vatican for pursuing closer ties between the Catholic church and Beijing. |
| “Nowhere is religious freedom under assault more than in China,” Pompeo told a symposium hosted by the US Embassy to the Holy See, saying the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was looking to “to snuff out the lamp of freedom ... on a horrifying scale”. | “Nowhere is religious freedom under assault more than in China,” Pompeo told a symposium hosted by the US Embassy to the Holy See, saying the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was looking to “to snuff out the lamp of freedom ... on a horrifying scale”. |
| Pompeo denounced Beijing’s treatment of its Uighur Muslim minority, and said all religious groups faced repression. “The CCP has battered every religious community in China, Protestant house churches, Tibetan Buddhists, Falun Gong devotees and more. Nor of course have Catholics been spared this wave of repression,” he said. | Pompeo denounced Beijing’s treatment of its Uighur Muslim minority, and said all religious groups faced repression. “The CCP has battered every religious community in China, Protestant house churches, Tibetan Buddhists, Falun Gong devotees and more. Nor of course have Catholics been spared this wave of repression,” he said. |
| China has consistently defended its human rights record and has denied any mistreatment of Uighurs. | China has consistently defended its human rights record and has denied any mistreatment of Uighurs. |
| Vatican officials expressed surprise last week when, ahead of his planned visit to Rome, Pompeo published an essay in a conservative Catholic magazine that sharply criticised the Holy See for plans to renew a two-year-old agreement with Beijing. | Vatican officials expressed surprise last week when, ahead of his planned visit to Rome, Pompeo published an essay in a conservative Catholic magazine that sharply criticised the Holy See for plans to renew a two-year-old agreement with Beijing. |
| Pompeo said the deal, which gives the pope some say over the appointment of Chinese bishops, endangers the Vatican’s moral authority. Vatican officials say that while the arrangement is not perfect, it is an improvement after decades during which Chinese Catholics who recognise the pope were forced underground. | Pompeo said the deal, which gives the pope some say over the appointment of Chinese bishops, endangers the Vatican’s moral authority. Vatican officials say that while the arrangement is not perfect, it is an improvement after decades during which Chinese Catholics who recognise the pope were forced underground. |
| Pompeo is due to hold talks tomorrow with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s top diplomat. Pope Francis saw Pompeo when he came to Italy last year, but with relationships more strained, no such meeting is scheduled this time around. | Pompeo is due to hold talks tomorrow with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s top diplomat. Pope Francis saw Pompeo when he came to Italy last year, but with relationships more strained, no such meeting is scheduled this time around. |
| A rare note of sympathy for the media struck here by White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany – well, sort of, anyway… | A rare note of sympathy for the media struck here by White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany – well, sort of, anyway… |