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US Election 2020 as it happened: Donald Trump hits Michigan, Iowa while Joe Biden visits Pennsylvania
US Postal service ordered to use 'extraordinary measures' to deliver ballots
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The US Postal Service (USPS) must remind senior managers they are required to follow its "extraordinary measures" policy and use its express mail network to expedite ballots ahead of Tuesday’s presidential election, under an order signed by a judge.
US District Judge Emmet Sullivan's order on Sunday, to which the USPS agreed, said the postal service must reinforce its "special procedures" to ensure it "delivers every ballot possible by the cutoff time on Election Day".
USPS will also reinforce to managers that "all ballots with a local destination must be cleared and processed on the same day or no later than the next morning for delivery to local offices, from now through at least November 7".
Sullivan, from the US District Court in Washington, on Friday had ordered USPS to adopt "extraordinary measures" at numerous processing locations to ensure the timely delivery of millions of ballots before Tuesday's presidential election.
Sunday's order, following a series of court hearing over the weekend, directed USPS to redistribute to all division directors and plant managers by 9pm EST Sunday the "extraordinary measures" policy providing specific guidance for the final week of the 2020 election, "and that it is recirculating this policy at the instruction of a federal district court".
In dash to finish, Biden and Trump set up showdown in Pennsylvania
By Katie Glueck and Annie Karni
Philadelphia: As the national early vote climbs past a staggering 93 million and challenges to the electoral process intensify across states, President Donald Trump and Joe Biden are barrelling into Pennsylvania and turning it into the top battleground in Wednesday AEDT's election, with Democrats flooding in with door-knockers and Republicans trying to parlay Trump's rallies into big turnout once again.
Both campaigns see Pennsylvania as increasingly crucial to victory: Trump now appears more competitive here than in Michigan and Wisconsin, two other key northern states he hopes to win, and Biden's clearest electoral path to the White House runs through the state.
Pennsylvania has more Electoral College votes, 20, than any other traditional battleground except Florida, and Trump won the state by less than 1 percentage point in 2016.
Trump devoted Sunday AEDT to four rallies across the state, and he and Biden planned campaign events for the final 48 hours of the race as well.
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'Winners don't give in': New Sixers coach Doc Rivers stumps Biden in Philly
By Roy Ward
Doc Rivers only began his term as Philadelphia 76ers coach last month but the NBA championship winner was warmly greeted while speaking at Joe Biden's drive-in rally in Philadelphia on Monday AEDT.
Rivers has been an outspoken voice on social justice and on registering to vote during his years in the NBA while he was also a respected voice on issues around police shootings as his father was an African-American policeman in Chicago.
Biden cited Rivers' emotional comments at events following the shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin in August. Rivers was then the coach of the Los Angeles Clippers.
Rivers will coach Australian star Ben Simmons in Philadelphia this coming NBA season but Rivers was promoting the need to vote for Biden and bring other people to the polls during his short speech on Monday.
FBI probes Trump supporters' confrontation with Biden campaign bus
By Steve Gorman
Washington: The FBI said on Monday AEDT it was investigating an incident in which a convoy of vehicles flying flags in support of President Donald Trump's re-election bid surrounded a bus carrying campaign staff for Democratic challenger Joe Biden on a Texas highway.
Saturday AEDT's incident - captured on video that was retweeted by Trump on Sunday AEDT with the message, "I LOVE TEXAS!" - prompted the Biden campaign to cancel at least two of its Texas events as Democrats accused the president of encouraging supporters to engage in acts of intimidation.
Video footage showed a swarm of pickup trucks and SUVs bearing pro-Trump flags surrounding the Biden campaign bus as it travelled north along Interstate 35 between San Antonio and Austin.
The Biden campaign said the Trump caravan tried to force the bus to slow down and to run it off the road.
Watch: Donald Trump is due to speak at a rally in Rome, Georgia
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Pennsylvania AG dares Trump to challenge vote count
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US President Donald Trump's claims his campaign will send lawyers into Pennsylvania 'as soon as the election [voting] is over' has caught the ear of the state's attorney general.
Pennsylvania attorney general Josh Shapiro has, via Twitter, dared Trump to send in his lawyers and vowed that the election won't be declared over until all votes are counted.
"But if your lawyers want to try us, we'd be happy to defeat you in court one more time," Shapiro tweeted.
Wall Street opens its wallets for Biden
By Tom Rees and Lucy Burton
Joe Biden is campaigning in states that have not been blue in four decades. Such is his momentum in the final days of the election, the Democratic challenger this week shifted his focus from Midwest battlegrounds to Republican strongholds, such as Texas and Georgia.
Speaking deep in the Bible Belt last week, he promised to tax "the wealthiest and the biggest corporations" to pay for the rebuilding of the post-pandemic economy. It therefore may surprise some that another hostile territory has been wooed by the former vice-president.
Yet Biden is also Wall Street's candidate. More than $US50 million ($71 million) has been ploughed into the Democratic challenger's campaign coffers by the finance industry with executives from the likes of Blackstone, Bain Capital and Soros Fund Management among those donating to Biden's party, according to the non-partisan Centre for Responsive Politics. By comparison, the US finance industry has raised just under $US30 million for Donald Trump, marking only the second time during an election or midterm year since 1992 that Democrats have gained more donations from the executives.
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Red mirage? Blue mirage? What to expect on Election Day
By Matthew Knott
Miami, Florida: When Americans - and viewers around the world - tune in to watch the results of the US election come in on November 3 they are going to see something very different than what they are used to.
The coronavirus pandemic is expected to make it more difficult for media outlets to project whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden has carried a particular state if the results are close. As for the election outcome itself, it’s possible the winner will not be known until several days after the election.
Trump and his campaign have made clear they are prepared to use the confusion to claim a premature victory if the President is leading in enough swing states on election night.
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Mary Trump says her uncle will incite 'bedlam' post election if result unclear
By Kate Lahey
Mary Trump, the niece of US President Donald Trump, says her uncle is not warning of 'bedlam' in the event of an unclear election result, but inciting it.
"He's not predicting bedlam, he's going to cause it," she said. "Why would there be [bedlam]? All of the votes are never counted on election day - in any country."
Mary Trump told ABC Radio's RN program on Monday there was no reason anyone needed to know an immediate election result and delays had occurred in the past, peacefully.
"There is a 79 day period between the election, and the inauguration, in which to figure all this out, it doesn't change anything. We waited for weeks during the election between George W Bush and Al Gore, without knowing, and there were no armed insurrections.
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